In her new book, "My Mama, Cass" Owen Elliott-Kugell shares the origin behind the "California Dreamin'" band and her mother's nickname Liz McNeil is an Editor at Large at PEOPLE, where she's worked ...

This article originally appeared in Issue 4 of Crawdaddy in July 1966. Sometimes the only way to feel better, after looking at the Top 100 charts, is to remember that they have practically nothing to ...

Folk-rockers the Mamas & the Papas — made up of John Phillips, Michelle Phillips, Denny Doherty and Cass Elliot — provided the musical backdrop to the late 1960s with hit songs like "California ...

Considering how much it gets played on oldies radio, it would seem like “Go Where You Wanna Go” by The Mamas & The Papas was a big hit. In fact, the band decided against releasing it as a single at ...

For decades, Owen Elliot-Kugell had to put up with hearing a cruel rumor about how her mother died. "Mama" Cass Elliot, a singer in the ‘60s group The Mamas & The Papas, died after performing a series ...