Make Your Own Kind of Music (song)

Make Your Own Kind Of Music (song)

"Make Your Own Kind of Music" is a pop song written by Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil first recorded in 1968 by New York City-based trio the Will-O-Bees (Janet Blossom, Steven Porter, and Robert Merchanthouse) who regularly performed Mann/Weil compositions. After Cass Elliot had a hit in the summer of 1969 with Mann/Weil's "It's Getting Better" she recorded "Make Your Own Kind of Music" as the followup single and her album Bubblegum, Lemonade, and... Something for Mama was re-released as Make Your Own Kind of Music, the title cut having been added to the original track listing. However Elliot's "Make Your Own Kind of Music" single only just reached the Top 40 at #36: the similar chart impact of the followup single: another Mann/Weil composition entitled "New World Coming" which reached #42, signaled Elliot's inability to maintain a profile as a current hitmaker as the 1960s turned into the 1970s. The Cass Elliot track is in the key of E major.