Pssst...Michelle...Cass had the singing talent...you were kept around for other "talents"...none of them involved thinking.
That is all.
Very not true. Michelle was there before Cass. Michelle, John, and Denny sounded pretty good doing their folkie stuff together. Michelle could sing. She had a voice like a pretty pure bell. I have her solo stuff and enjoy it. She's got some great songs. If you ever see the movie "Mother, Jugs, and Speed", Michelle has a song in that movie called "No Love Today".
Michelle wasn't the musical empty suit most people assumed. She was ambitious and had probably the best business head of the four group members. She was the only one who could actually read music. It was John Phillip that went to hell after he and Michelle divorced, not the other way around.
When Michelle was fired from The Mamas and The Papas in June of 1966 she told them, "I'll bury you all!". Darned if she wasn't right!
