Make Your Own Kind of Music (song)

“Make Your Own Kind of Music”

Single by "Mama" Cass Elliot from the album Bubblegum, Lemonade and Something for Mama
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.

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Others who have performed the song include Bobby Sherman and Paul Westerberg. The original was Cass's last solo US Top 40 hit.

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.