Related: Mama Cass' Daughter Owen 'Didn't Even Know My Dad's Name' Until She Turned 19 (Exclusive) Cass Elliot, whose alto voice graced hits like “California Dreamin’” and “Dream A Little ...

Fact check: Mama Cass didn't choke to death on a ham sandwich, her daughter says in a new book. And thus a legendary rumor about a legendary performer falls.

Cass Elliot ’s daughter is honoring her mother’s legacy. Owen Elliot-Kugell announced Tuesday with Rolling Stone that she will publish a memoir entitled My Mama, Cass next year.

She died from a heart attack in London on 29 July 1974, at the age of 32. In a new memoir, My Mama, Cass, Elliot-Kugell uncovers the origin of the theory that her mother choked on a sandwich.

It all comes full circle in Elliot-Kugell’s new book, My Mama, Cass (279 pp., $30, Hachette Books). Equal parts biography, autobiography, and memoir, it’s a tale that Elliot-Kugell has ...

In California, she found fame as one of the leading voices with the Mamas and the Papas, singing on some of their biggest hits including California Dreamin’, Monday Monday and Dream a Little Dream.

50 years ago Mama Cass Elliot of the famed '60s group The Mamas & The Papas died suddenly. Her daughter Owen talked with us about her legacy.

Fact check: Mama Cass didn't choke to death on a ham sandwich, her daughter says in a new book. And thus a legendary rumor about a legendary performer falls.