Make Your Own Kind of Music (song)

"Make Your Own Kind of Music" is a song written by Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil, most famously performed by "Mama" Cass Elliot on her 1969 album Bubblegum, Lemonade and Something for Mama. Others who have performed the song include Bobby Sherman and Paul Westerberg.

[edit] In popular culture

Cass's version of the song is prominently featured in three episodes of the television series Lost: "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. It reappeared on Lost on Feb 14th 2007 in "Flashes Before Your Eyes" as Desmond relives an experience in a pub and hears the same song in the back ground on two different nights which surfaces memories from the hatch on the island.
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.