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Cass Elliot on her porch in Laurel Canyon in the 60s.

Cass Elliot, June 1972🧵🧶

Jimi Hendrix, Michelle Phillips and "Mama Cass" Elliot backstage at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles on August 18, 1967.

Photos by Henry Diltz

cass elliot, 1967.

photographed by jerry schatzberg.

Cass Elliot & Michelle Phillips by Jim Marshall

Memory of good times: Food served on a flight

Mama Cass of the Mamas and the Papas, ca. 1970. Photos Michael Ochs Archives.

girls who rock: mama cass elliot

Joni Mitchells and Cass Elliot with Mary Travers, 1969.

Donovan, Cass Elliot, and Kirk Douglas in Tiger Beat, January 1969

Elvis Presleys Hilton suite, Las Vegas, NV | Friday, February 23, 1973 Elvis and Mama Cass .

I love the way he is looking at Mama Cass and giving her his full attention while she sings for him .Can you imagine being her and him using his charm to convince her to sing . 😘

At one point in the night, Mama Cass asked Elvis (in a rather derisive way) 'Why do you do this? Why do you sing these same gospel songs over and over like this?' Instead of being offended, Elvis asked her if she had ever tried it...ever tried singing a song with a gospel quartet backing her up. She laughed and said that she had not. He challenged her to try it just once. After some hesitation and cajoling, she finally decided she knew the words to Amazing Grace and would sing it. She did and The Imperials fell in and provided back up harmonies. They sang it all the way through and when she finished, she turned to Elvis and told him that having those voices surround hers as she sang was the most indescribable feeling she had ever experienced. She said 'Now I get it. Now I understand why this means so much to you'.

Cass Elliot photographed by Henry Diltz • 1968

(via her official family-run instagram page casselliotofficial)

Mama Cass photographed by Henry in the Palm Springs desert, June of 1968.