THE 1000 BEST SONGS IN THE WORLD EVER.
247-Mama Cass Eliott-Make Your Own Kind Of Music.
1969-Has never charted in the UK.
Best Bit-At 0.47.’I’ll see you in another life brother.’
Make Your Own Kind Of Music was written by the husband and wife songwriting team of Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil(see also best songs 782.) The song was first recorded by the American Folk Rock trio the ‘Will-O-Bees in 1968,who regularly recorded Mann/Weil’s compositions.
Mama Cass Eliott had already had previous chart success with the Mann/Weil’s ‘It’s Getting Better'(Billboard Number 30,1969) and chose this in the hope it would take her back to the top of the charts,but it only made Number 36 on Billboard.It would also be the last hit single for her before her death.
In 2018 Paloma Faith released a very similar sounding version of the song which featured in a TV commercial for Skoda cars,her version peaked at Number 28 in the UK.
In 2005 the American TV series ‘Lost’ used the Mama Cass version for the opening scene of series 2,episode 1 called ‘Man Of Science,Man Of Faith.’
‘Make your own kind of music,even if nobody else sings along.’
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