According to the biography Dream a Little Dream of Me, it was Dr. Anthony Greenburgh, the first physician to examine Cass Eliot after her death, who mistakenly sowed the seeds of the "choked on a ham sandwich" legend: Greenburgh immediately offered a straightforward explanation for Cass's deat...
After a year of e-mails, he has agreed to talk to me about his friend 'Mama' Cass Elliot, the tender- voiced Mamas and Papas singer whose biography I have been writing. Over the next few hours in the grounds of his ranch, we talk, staring out at the vast Californian plains. 'She...
Cass "Mama Cass" Elliot was known for her heavyset figure, and was one of four members of the late 1960s pop sensation The Mamas and the Papas.