Disgraceland is a production of Double Elvis.

The stories about the Mamas and the Pappas, Mama Cass Elliott, are insane.

Cass broke the mold, shattering expectations of what a female pop star should be.

She battled weight issues with extreme dieting routines that often landed her in the hospital.

She was arrested in London for theft. Like most pop stars in the 60s, Mama Cass did lots of drugs.

But unlike most pop stars, she dated not one but two dangerous drug dealers.

Mama Cass was also at the center of the Manson family murders, and her actions may be why the true

motive for those murders has been hidden for over 50 years.

But throughout her career, Mama Cass performed with a charisma and sang with a voice

that was not seen or heard in pop music prior. And Mama Cass Elliott made great music.

Unlike that music I played for you at the top of the show,

that wasn't great music.

That was a preset loop from my Melotron

called Me Chacha-Suchacha MK-1.

I played you that loop

because I can't afford the rights to Monday Monday

by the Mamas and the Pappas.

And why would I play you that specific slice of ba-da-ba-da-da-cha-cha cheese, could I afford it?

Because that was the number one song in America on May 7, 1966.

And that was the day the Cass Elliott truly became a star, gaining her entry into a world of

Hollywood celebrity and hedonism, a world that her presence would perhaps forever alter with

disastrous results. On this episode, a London arrest, Hollywood hedonism, California dreaming, and Mama Cass.

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