Make Your Own Kind of Music (song)
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| “Make Your Own Kind of Music” | ||
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| Single by "Mama" Cass Elliot from the album Bubblegum, Lemonade and Something for Mama |
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| Released | 1969 | |
| Writer(s) | Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil | |
"Make Your Own Kind of Music" is a song most famously performed by "Mama" Cass Elliot on her 1969 album Bubblegum, Lemonade and Something for Mama.
[edit] Other versions
Others who have performed the song include Bobby Sherman and Paul Westerberg. The original was Cass's last solo US Top 40 hit.
[edit] In popular culture
- Cass's version of the song is prominently featured in three episodes of the television series Lost often associated with the character Desmond Hume: "Man of Science, Man of Faith", "Adrift" and "Flashes Before Your Eyes". A faint sitar version can also be heard at the end of "Live Together, Die Alone".
- The song has also appeared in the Swedish documentary "I en annan del av Köping" during 2007.
- As of February 2006, a Snickers commercial airing in the United States featured Sherman's version.
- Cass's version also appears in the play and film Beautiful Thing, alongside many more of her recordings.
- It is used on one of Hallmark's Cards With Sound.
- Until recently was featured on a flash animation on Newgrounds.com called "We Are NativeAmericanCats" it was pulled because of a lawsuit involving the record company.
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