Elliot would be less easygoing in her 1971 summation of her 1968-1970 tenure with Dunhill Records, saying she had been "forced to be so bubblegum that I'd stick to the floor when I walked." Steve Barri, while admitting - also in 1971- : "Cass was one artist I couldn't find the answer for," would maintain: "We never recorded anything that she didn't want to do." Įlliot had also told Melody Maker that "It's Getting Better" was "musically. but it's like they say about Chinese food: half an hour after tasting it you are hungry again", although she did concede "maybe is what I am supposed to be doing my voice is very light. not loving." In a September 1969 Melody Maker interview a week prior to the US release of the "Make Your Own Kind of Music" single, Elliot stated: "Bubblegum music is very pleasant to listen to. That album had been produced by Dunhill Records vice-president of a&r Steve Barri: (Steve Barri quote:)" didn't have much success with we wanted to get her back on the charts and we tried to find some commercial songs." Barri would also attribute the bubblegum music focus of his output with Elliot to a desire "to capture who she was. "Make Your Own Kind of Music" was recorded by Cass Elliot after she had a hit in the summer of 1969 with another Mann/Weil composition: " It's Getting Better", the second single from Elliot's second solo album: Bubblegum, Lemonade &. 1.2 Chart performance (Cass Elliot version)Ĭass Elliot version Overview.