California Dreamin' by Pénélope Bagieu5/26/2023 ![]() Inspired by the underdog tale of Florence Foster Jenkins, though with a truly beautiful voice, Ellen left home determined to be a singer, not letting anything get in her way, stating in the dark to her siblings after bedtime, “I’ll be the most famous fatty in the world”. ![]() In Penelope Bagieu’s California Dreamin’: Cass Elliot before the Mamas and the Papas, the French graphic novelist takes a brief look at the life of Ellen Cohen, a young woman from Baltimore with a voice unmatched by any other but, in the early 1960’s, many were unwilling to see anything besides an overweight woman. From the flapper Charleston dancing, fast pace jazz of the 1920s, illustrates it’s decadent lifestyle Rock’n’Roll of the 1950s, ushering in a new generation of consumers, the teenagers and all the delinquency that comes with it and folk-rock music, beat poetry inspired songs of the 1960s, where Ellen Cohen, better known as Mama Cass, gained her time in the spotlight. Music is the nexus of culture, it can summarize an entire generation, give you a taste of what life was like. California Dreamin’: Cass Elliot before the Mamas & the Papas ![]()
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