Keith Sousa's video: Make Your Own Kind of Music - Mama Cass Elliot - Mamas and Papas - Amymarie Gaertner - w lyrics

"Make Your Own Kind of Music" is a pop song written by Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil, which became a top 40 hit for Cass Elliot in 1969. The Cass Elliot version of the song is in the key of E major. She recorded "Make Your Own Kind of Music" after she had a hit in the summer of 1969 with "It's Getting Better", another Mann/Weil composition and the second single from her second solo album, Bubblegum, Lemonade and... Something for Mama. That album had been produced by Dunhill Records vice-president of A&R Steve Barri, who said: "[Since Dunhill] didn't have much success with [the debut Cass Elliot solo album] Dream a Little Dream we wanted to get her back on the [upper] charts and we tried to find some commercial songs." Barri would also attribute the bubblegum music focus of his output with Elliot to a desire "to capture who she was ... this real fun-loving positive ... person I couldn't imagine anybody ... not loving." In a September 1969 Melody Maker interview a week prior to the US release of the "Make Your Own Kind of Music" single, Elliot stated: "Bubblegum music is very pleasant to listen to ... but it's like they say about Chinese food: half an hour after tasting it you are hungry again", although she did concede "maybe [bubblegum] is what I am supposed to be doing [since] my voice is very light ... I just can't sing heavy material". Elliot would be less easygoing in her 1971 summation of her 1968–1970 tenure with Dunhill Records, saying she had been "forced to be so bubblegum that I'd stick to the floor when I walked."[4] Barri, while admitting—also in 1971—that "Cass was one artist I couldn't find the answer for," would maintain: "We never recorded anything that she didn't want to do. Amymarie Gaertner is a self-taught American dancer, choreographer, actress and social media star who gained popularity for showing her freestyle dancing moves in six-second-videos on the now defunct looping video hosting service Vine. Learning dance steps all by herself, she is able to dance to any tune she is given. She co-hosted the Halloween edition of 'Dancing with the Stars' in 2015. That year, she also acted in the episode 'A Sudden Duet!' from the web series 'Sanders Shorts' directed by fellow Viner and internet personality Thomas Sanders. Later on, she made couple more appearances on Thomas' eponymous comedy and music series. She played the role of Vanessa in the YouTube Red original movie 'Dance Camp' in 2016. In 2017, she acted as Elektra in an episode of 'The Boonies' and also appeared as Audrey March in three episodes of 'Guidance'. She was nominated for the 'Dancer of The Year award' at the '5th Annual Streamy Awards' in 2015 and was one of the Finalists in the Dance category of the '8th Annual Shorty Awards' in 2016.