Many years ago (sometime in the 1990's), I was at the Mark & Brian's Annual Christmas Show when actress Dana Delany got to live out that fantasy. It really didn't come through on the radio broadcast of the show, but those of us in the audience saw how completely head over heals Dana was.
David Cassidy made my 7 year old little heart flutter every Friday night when the "Partridge Family" came on TV. Same with Bobby Sherman when "Here Come the Brides" came on, and Davy Jones with "The Monkees". I loved all three of them!
muc - Julie Julie Julie do you love me? Julie Julie Julie do you care? Julie Julie Julie do you love me? Julie Julie Julie will you still be there? -- Bobby Sherman
Yessss! I was so in love with Bobby Sherman! I didn’t miss Here Come the Brides! I wanted to be Candy so bad!! Julie Do Ya Live Me was Bobby’s big hit! 😍😍 Yeah, Davy Jones too! ♥️♥️
Shirley Jones, the mom on the show and legitimate singer, had a wonderful film career before this. Known for classic movie musicals like Carousel, Oklahoma and The Music Man, Jones won a Best Supporting Actress Academy Award for the drama Elmer Gantry (1960). Jones not only starred and sang on the TV series but sang on the I Think I Love You single as well.
She was also the real-life step-mother of David Cassidy who played oldest son Keith Partridge on the show. The only two "family" members who actually were musicians.
@@lwh7301 I beg to differ. Jones sang backup on the record. See the wikipedia entry for the song (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Think_I_Love_You#Personnel) where it clearly states, "...The Partridge Family starring Shirley Jones and featuring David Cassidy, both of whom appear on the record, with Cassidy as lead vocalist."
The Partridge Family was a TV show about a family who was a singing group. David Cassidy was the oldest brother and lead singer on many of their songs. He became a teen heart throb and had a fairly successful solo career in the 70s.
@@nettie7591 The Cowsills were looked at for the show but the producers figured out they couldn't act and the only one they liked was the little girl Susan. Apparently they had some behind the scenes family issues because anytime you saw them, they were kinda weird.
"The Partridge Family" was a great tv show. You should see if you can find some episodes, you would enjoy the nostalgia. The only actors in the series who actually sang were Shirley Jones and her stepson David Cassidy (who was a huge Teen Idol). The other voices were provided by studio singers. "The Partridge Family" was based on a real family singing group called The Cowsills. "The Partridge Family" was in direct competition with "The Brady Bunch". The tv series began in 1970 and ran for about 5 years. They put out several albums.
In fact, the network wanted the actual Cowsills group to be in the show but they wanted to replace the mother with an actress, so the group turned down the deal. "Why would we replace our mom?" And that's how the "Partridge Family" was born. Shirley Jones and David Cassidy are step-mother and step-son.
The top selling song of 1970 - Sold 5 million copies…and was #1 on the US Charts. Released the same day as The Beetles ~ “Let It Be” [which topped out in the US charts at #6]
Number 1 song for 3 weeks in November of 1970. I was 9 years old. I loved The Partridge Family back then and still do today. I still have all of their albums and many 45s. The first album I ever purchased with my own money was The Partridge Family Up to Date!
I was 7 years old then myself and I remember my mother told my sister and I we were going to watch this new show .... shortly after I remember buying the single I Think I Love You and getting the Sound Magazine album for my birthday . I stylus have all their records to this day
The instrument you are wondering about is the Harpsichord and it's sound is probably why you thought of the Addams Family theme. This song spent 3 weeks at number one on Billboards hot 100 and outperformed the Beatle's "Let it Be". I grew up watching this show and knew that Shirley Jones did a lot of Musicals most notably "The Music Man" as Marion the Librarian. David Cassidy was Shirley's stepson from her marriage to Jack Cassidy, another well known actor. He went on to have a successful solo career. It's a silly little show but some great music came out of it.
@@KetoKassy I bet you're a fun person to be around. Look it up. In spite of being a tortured soul with a drinking problem, Cassidy worked in TV, music, movies and Broadway until his death in 2017, even releasing an album in 2018. I would rather be a drunk than sit in judgement of people.
Super reaction guys!... but man, I'm feeling old. That something as HUGE as the Partridge Family (both TV show and their hits) is unknown to the next generations is mind blowing. My sister had all the albums. I still have the comic books, gum cards, books... and someone I knew had the lunch box. Tis the season so check out The Partridge Family's original Christmas classic "My Christmas Card to You". What a wonderful voice David Cassiday had. RIP sir. You brought us so much joy.
Many fans might not know that "My Christmas Card To You" was also a 45 rpm single! I treasure it as a display on my wall. The B side is "White Christmas". The album spent several weeks at number 1 during the Christmas seasons of 1971 and 1972.
Right??! It's fun seeing these two explore these old songs and groups I grew up with. I remember being SHOCKED when I learned that only David and Shirley were the only ones that actually sang. I was around 12 when The Partridge Family came out and I thought it was a real group. Us old fans knew it was based on The Cowsills and I had actually seen them in concert back in the day!
The Partridge Family was a TV series which ran from 1970-1974. The series was about a singing family consisting of five siblings and their mother. Few people know that the idea was based on a real life singing family named The Cowsills. The Cowsills consisted of six siblings and their mother who sang and unlike the Partridge Family, actually played their own instruments. They were quite popular then and appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show and many other variety shows of the late 1960's. The Cowsills turned down the offer to appear as the TV family which became The Partridge Family series because the producers wanted to replace the mother's part with a known actress/singer Shirley Jones. Shirley Jones played the mother while her real life stepson David Cassidy played her eldest son who sang lead vocals. As far as The Cowsills, they had a few big hits in the 1960's. " The Rain, the Park & Other Things" (1967) is probably my favorite. Close second for me would be "Hair" (1969) which was used in the rock musical "Hair" a story of a tribe of long haired hippies living a Bohemian lifestyle fighting against conscription into the Vietnam War. If you ever get a chance, check out the Cowsills life story. Very sad and tragic. There's a great clip of The Cowsills on The Ed Sullivan Show singing a medley of songs to introduce the family members. Check it out: "The Cowsills- A Cowsills Medley 1967"
Jay & Amber, you'll love their "I Woke Up In Love This Morning"!!! Shirley Jones (the tv Mom on the Partridge Family show) was an established movie musical star. David Cassidy(Shirley's stepson in real life) the lead singer, had a solo career!! edit- the song features the iconic Los Angeles-based session musicians known as "The Wrecking Crew".
The Partridge Family was a fictonal group for the TV show. They are based on the real family group, "The Cowsills." Check out the Cowsills version of, "Hair," from the stage musical, "Hair." They had a number of hits worth listening to.
The partridge Family was a popular TV show during the early 70’s. David Cassidy was lead singer on I Think I Love You . He was certainly loved by millions of girls
OH MY GAAAAH this takes me back. As a kid I watched two families on TV. The Partridges and the Bradys (both musical!). Loved this blast from the past! RIP David Cassidy (lead vocalist). FYI This song came out in 1970.
@@Shrykespeare Unless you were the parent, in which case you made one of your kids do it. Usually the youngest ended up with that duty. (I speak from experience.) And sometimes you had to stay by the TV to adjust the antenna after changing the channel. Then after you finally got a clear picture you took your hand off the antenna to go sit back down and the picture went fuzzy again. Ah, the memories!
Oh my gosh! The memories this song brings back. I was thirteen and would not miss my weekly Partridge Family fix. Had posters of David Cassidy, Donny Osmond and Michael Jackson all over my walls. Teen heart throbs to the max! Would listen non-stop to the Partridge Family, The Jackson 5, and my favorites, The Osmonds. Sometimes I would get teased for listening to “bubblegum” music but I loved it back then.
On holiday in Las Vegas for my 40th birthday and went to a show staring David. During the performance he came down off the stage into the audience and sang this song to me. Being a lady of a certain vintage, it was like all my teenage dreams come true. Susan from Scotland
That instrument is a harpsichord, the same sound you hear on The Addams Family. I almost laughed when I saw who you were reacting to, but the Partridge Family was such a fun show. It was a made for television family singing group patterned after the Cowsills. It may have been a fictitious band, but there are two major singers in the group, Shirley Jones, who was a famous singer/actress that appeared in many famous musical movies, and David Cassidy, her stepson, the teenage heartthrob at the time who had many hits on his own. Now you need to react to "The Rain, the Park, and Other Things" by the Cowsills.
I never thought of this song as being similar to The Addams Family theme. It absolutely is!! That instrumental at the beginning is extremely similar. At the time the song was released in 1970, The Addams Family had very recently ended its first series TV run.
❤❤❤❤ This song was the number #1 hit of 1970. The Partridge Family was a TV show that was on right after The Brady Bunch. Amber, if you want a Christmas gift idea for your Mom & also for your girls, you can buy a DVD set of all 96 episodes for under $20. You'll see why David Cassidy was a 70's heartthrob. Back in the day, we would fight over who was cuter, David Cassidy or Donny Osmond!
I had a crush on David back then, but Donny won me over, and I still love Donny to this day, even though he's a grandfather many times over, lol. The seventies really was the best decade for teen idols. There were many to choose from, and they all were so darn cuuuute!
Love this! The Partridge Family was, indeed, a TV show. It was about a widowed mother of five kids who all become a successful singing group. When the show premiered in 1970, the plan was to have the songs performed by studio musicians with some vocals by Shirley Jones, who played the mother and was a successful musical star. But then it was discovered that David Cassidy, who played the oldest son, Keith, could sing. So David joined the studio musicians (and sometimes Shirley) and recorded the songs as The Partridge Family. So when you're listening to Partridge Family songs, it's really David Cassidy and the studio group. For the series, the other actors pretended to play instruments and mouthed the songs as if they were singing. The show was very successful and David Cassidy went on to become the biggest teen heartthrob in history. And the show produced a lot of very successful songs. "I Think I Love You" was probably their biggest hit. And the instrument you were wondering about is a harpsichord.
In the tv show the Partridge Family, Shirley Jones and David Cassidy ( who played mother and son on the show ) were the only legitimate musicians on the show. They both had long music careers. And Shirley Jones was actually David Cassidy's stepmom in real life !!!!! But you should react to David Cassidy's music. He was a real heart throb back in the day !!!!!
"We had this Dream, to go travelling together. We spread a little love, and we keep moving on. Something always happens whenever we're together. We get a happy feeling when we're singing a song". It's the harpsichord that gives the song that creepy sound.
Thanks VicMike, I was trying to remember the theme song when I heard 'I Think I Love You'. Friday nights in the 70s = Bradys then Partridges. And yes, I am older than dirt. HA! ... AND I hope someone mentions the multi-colored bus in these notes.
@@garyarnett1220 It's not the instrument it's how it's used. The Harpsichord is typically a happy sounding instrument, true, which is why it sounds really creepy when used in a creepy way. Such as playing discordant notes or chords off of each other, or playing along a darker more ominous soundtrack. It's that contrast of a latent happy sounding instrument, played darkly that makes it creepy. Like anything. The reasons why children in horror films or clowns tend to really creep people out.
David Cassidy....the all time greatest teen heartthrob! Sold out concerts around the world. Beautiful face. 😍 An actual musician overshadowed by complete and utter teen worship.
His situation often reminds me of Donny Osmond. Apparently he could play some truly serious music, but (at least I've heard or read several times) was not allowed to by his family because it was in contrast with the image they had established for themselves.
Cassidy had one of the best voices of all time. He and brother Shaun were incredible on Broadway in Blood Brothers. Go to 5:55 to get straight to the song: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-BgQ3xxpedhc.html
I was 16 when The Partridge Family first aired and never missed a show. I like almost every other teenage girl had a crush on David Cassidy. I agree with the other commenters on their song suggestions. They had many great songs, in fact I can't think of one that I didn't like. But I haven't seen my favorite song of theirs mentioned which is "One Night Stand". It was written by Wes Ferrell and Paul Anka who was a great singer from the sixties. I also recommend songs from David's solo album Cherish such as "Being Together", "We Could Never Be Friends ('Cause We've Been Lovers Too Long)", "Where Is The Morning" and my favorite "I Am A Clown".
As mentioned before, David Cassidy was a 70's heart throb. See if you can relate these 2 degrees of separation....Nancy Drew Mysteries and The Hardy Boys were sister TV programs and would crossover all the time. Shaun Cassidy and Parker Stevenson were The Hardy Boys - Shaun Cassidy is David Cassidy's younger brother - David Cassidy was on The Partidge Family and is singing this song. Shaun also made albums but wasn't as successful as David...only to me because of the 2, Shaun had my heart!
I was in elementary school when this song was popular. ALL the neighborhood kids liked the TV show The Partridge Family. One day coming back from school, the bus driver had this song playing on the radio. A couple kids started singing along, and soon the whole bus was singing ! Awesome memory from childhood! Thanks for the recollection! Peace!
OMG! David Cassidy was the awesomesauce back in the day! We were all in love with him! The Partridge Family was a tv family based upon an actual mom and kids group called the Cowsills who had several sizable hits, Indian Lake, The Rain, the Park and Other Things, and they did a great version of Hair, the title song from the musical. Good songs to give a listen to. I think that David Cassidy and Shirley Jones were the main two singers from the show on the Partridge Family albums, all the rest were studio musicians and session singers. Actress and singer Shirley Jones was actually David Cassidy’s real life stepmom from the time he was around 6 years old. They really became close when they did the show together. Shirley Jones is a brilliantly talented singer and actress, Broadway star, who was married to David’s father, the actor Jack Cassidy, wonderful actor. They had three sons together, Shaun, Patrick and Ryan. All three are actors, Shaun being the one with probably the most successful singing career. He was also quite the heartthrob in his day, too. You can still catch this show on Antenna TV, I think. It’s a fun show. The music is truly good, even though David Cassidy would much rather have done harder, darker music and became so at odds with his squeaky clean, boy-next-door character of Keith Partridge. He was always a rocker at heart. He was vastly underrated and under appreciated.
Shirley Jones was an actress who played the Mum of the Partridge Family. She starred in the Musical Carousel and sang the HUGE last song, which is "You'll never walk alone" which you have reacted to sung by the Gerry and the Pacemakers. The Partridge Family was on TV in the UK as well as the USA. David Cassidy went on to have a huge solo career as a pop artist.
David was so dreamy! He was actually a pretty good musician and loved to rock out playing riffs on his guitar. His voice was captivating and those eyes...and that smile. He was the best hearthrob!! 💖
David Cassidy (lead singer) was the son, of actor Jack Cassidy who was married to Shirley Jones (actress/singer) who played the mother in the TV series. She is also the female voice you hear strongly backing on this track. David was one of the biggest teen heart throbs of the early 70s. Susan Dey who played Laurie Partridge (second eldest of 5 children), went on to play Grace Van Owens in the popular TV Drama LA Law. I Woke Up in Love (this Morning) & Doesn't Someone Want to Be Wanted were 2 other charting singles form the Partridge Family. Cherish was David's biggest solo hit.
The actual musicians on the song were from the Wrecking Crew, the well-known Los Angeles-based studio ensemble. They played on so many popular hits during that period.
Actually, the female voice you hear is one of the studio musicians who provided all the vocals besides the lead, David Cassidy. Shirley Jones sang, but her classically trained voice didn’t work well with the pop sound, so they buried her vocals underneath the others.’ The instrumentalists were the famed studio musicians known as The Wrecking Crew.
They have many more great 70's songs. The Partridge Family was a TV series about a family who had a band. The lead singer was "Keith Partridge" his real name was David Cassidy. He was my tween heart throb! When the song Brown Eyes came on I would imagine he was singing to me!! ROFL my little girl self was just thrilled. I am 60 now but can still remember all their songs.
Donny Osmond was a huge heart throb back in the 70's. There are videos from them of concerts they did and the girls would go besides themselves crazy for Donny.
I had a huge crush and saved my babysitting money to buy the magazines like Tiger Beat and he literally covered my entire bedroom walls up onto the ceiling.
I wasn't a teenage girl, but a very young boy between 3 and 5 during this era. The Partridge Family was one of the many reasons I grew up loving music. My very first record, at age three, was Melanie, Brand New Key, and we were watching The Partridge Family on TV. The Pop music of that time was simple, but to this day, it makes me feel good; very uplifting feel to the music. "I Woke Up In Love This Morning' or 'Twenty-Four Hours a Day' are two more great songs you should check out by them.
I named my son David because of David Cassidy and yes Amber it was major competition against the Brady Bunch. The Partridge Family David and Shirley Jones ( real David's step Mom) was the only real musicians playing and singing in the tv series. David Cassidy was a major heart throb and he did world tours and sang he was famous .
Could have been worse! You could have liked Bewitched and named your kid Tabatha! I met a girl once who's mother named her after that TV witch and she was NOT happy about it!!!!!!
The Partridge Family was a TV show (1970 - 1974) about a single mother and her 5 kids who formed a band; it also includes their manager, Reuben Kincaid. Yes I remember.
My late wife saw David Cassidy in about 1974 in Manchester. At the end the drummer through his sticks into the crowd. She caught one ! I still have it ❣️❣️❣️
The Partridge Family was a TV Show about a Family where a mother and her 5 kids were touring musicians. They released some of the songs from the show and it resulted in a couple hit records. They was roughly based on the real-life family group the Cowsills. You may want to check out the Cowsills songs "The Rain, The Park & Other Things" or "Indian Lake"
They had several other good songs like "I Woke Up In Love This Morning, I'll Meet You Halfway, Looking Through the Eyes of Love, Doesn't Somebody Want to be Wanted?, and Echo Valley 2-1609." The show was inspired by the real family band, The Cowsills. You might like some of their stuff too like "The Rain, the Park & Other Things, Hair, and Indian Lake."
It was a TV show. David Cassidy and Shirley Jones sang for the Partridge family. The keyboard instrument was a modern harpsichord common in the 1700s and revived in rock music of the late 1960s and early 1970s.
It's great to see the video of David Cassidy, Shirley Jones (his TV and real mom) and the rest of the cast 😉 I saw David Cassidy in concert in 2012 and he was fantastic! May He rest in Peace 🙏🏼 But my teen idol was his brother, Shaun Cassidy ("The Hardy Boys" TV show) 🥰😍🥰 He is still active in show business (singer, actor, writer, producer). Amber, ask your mom about him 😉
I loved David Cassidy in the Partridge Family, but I was still pretty young. When the Hardy Boys came out, Shaun Cassidy was definitely my sister's idol, but I was absolutely smitten by Parker Stevenson.
This was another group engendered by a TV program and was based on an actual group called the Cowsills. "David Partridge" was a real heart- throb for a while there. Remember this song with a great deal of fondness.
The Partridge Family theme song ("C'mon Get Happy") is great and their bus is iconic! David Cassidy, the teen heartthrob of the show, was the real life stepson of Shirley Jones, who played his mom in the series.
I was in love with mama Partridge in the late 70's and I was only 12 years old. Mama Partridge could really sing and as lovely as Susan Day was I still loved mama Partridge. It took me years to get over it but I did.
The Partridge Family was a TV show in the early 70s. The father has died and to make money the family forms a pop group. They ride around to concerts in a brightly painted school bus. The mother was played by Shirley Jones, an Oscar-winning actress who played the lead in several musical films like Oklahoma! and The Music Man. The lead singer was played by David Cassidy, who was Shirley Jones grandson; the other kids didn't really sing or play, session musicians did. The crazy teen idol fame thing for David Cassidy got overwhelming eventually. This song was the top-selling single of 1970.
Other songs of theirs that made the charts: "Doesn't Somebody Want To Be Wanted"; "I'll Meet You Halfway"; "I Woke Up In Love This Morning";"It's One Of Those Nights (Yes Love)"
This is one of those songs you can listen to with your daughters. It was meant for preteens. Many people list this song as the song they listen to not be sad, if they are happy or when they fall in love. It's a feel good song. Even though the Partridge Family is not a real band (David Cassidy and Shirley Jones could really sing) there are many popular songs by the Partridge Family. The TV show was based on the Cowsills who were a real band of kids performing with their mother.
As a 19 year old guy at the time of this song I must admit it was one of my Guilty Pleasures. I still crank the radio up to 11 and sing along with it at the top of my voice.
My take on the Partridge Family. It was a TV show that started in 1970. Stars David Cassidy, Shirley Jones, Susan Dey. As a 10 y/o kid then, I couldn't wait for the show to come. Every episode would include a new song. I would hang my microphone from my cassette recorder so I could save the song. The family put together a band and perform in different places, all the while trying to live a family life, (no father in the picture). They did a few albums. Very popular in the early 70s. They even had bubblegum trading card, lunch boxes and the like. The very first musical group in was a fan of. Please play more. No bad songs by them ☺️
In the story line because they were not a real band in tv land, Keith was on guitar and lead vocals, Shirley(mom) played the organ/piano and vocals, Lori played the harpsichord and vocals, Danny played the bass and vocals, Chris on drums and Tracy played the tambourine.
OMG- I still know every word to this song and I’m 59 😅. I was sooo in love with David Cassidy and I played this album until every song was burned into my brain. I got to meet him on my 21st birthday!
The Partridge Family was a TV show about a musical family who occasionally traveled around by bus to perform. Their songs became hits and David Cassidy became one of the biggest heartthrobs of the 70s.
I'm so excited you have gotten around to playing some David Cassidy! The era is the early 70's. David's beautiful voice, his real-life stepmom Shirley Jones singing in the background, and the instrumentation is actually by The Wrecking Crew, a top-notch group of studio session players and background singers. The Partridge Family was a T.V. fictional musical group. The only people from "The Partridge Family" singing are David Cassidy and Shirley Jones.
I think, that instrument is a harpsichord. It looks sort of like a piano, which plucks strings instead of hammering them. It was popular in the 1700's. Lurch, The Addams Family Butler, plays one, btw.
This song hit number one before the show even aired. The songs were written and recorded by studio musicians and they would add David Cassidy (Keith Partridge) and Shirley Jones (the mother Shirley) voices on the tracks since they were both really talented singers. Fun fact: David and Shirley were really related. Stepmother and stepson. Shirley Jones was in the Broadway musical Oklahoma and reprised the role for the movie. She was amazing
They didn’t “add” David Cassidy; he recorded the song live along with the other studio musicians. He was right there during the whole process. Shirley’s vocals were dropped in later and more or less buried.
@@nadomaya37 Not on the first album. David was one of the last adds and that music was already written and recorded. The later albums he was present at inception.
Of course, I was obsessed with The Partridge Family show & music (it's still on my playlist to this day). David Cassidy was my big three loves along with Bobby Sherman and Donny Osmond My sister and I have a connection with this song. We used to sing it at the top of our lungs while washing dishes. When my first baby was born, she sent her this 45. At the time, we didn't have a way to play it. Now at almost 30 years old, she only plays albums. I just sent my sister this link, which I know she will enjoy. I think you had to be a teeny bopper to really love this song. I was 12 😂.
Amber is correct! The Partridge Family was a popular TV sitcom about a musical family, which aired from 1970-1974, and reruns were shown in syndication for many decades after the series ended. Academy award winning actress Shirley Jones signed on as the star of the show, playing mom Shirley Partridge. Her real-life step-son David Cassidy (actor/singer/songwriter/guitarist and brother of singer/actor Shawn Cassidy from The Hardy Boys), played her oldest son Keith. David sang lead on this one and went on to have a pretty successful music career. Sadly, he passed away in 2017. Since Christmas will be here soon, how about doing their version of "Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree". I'm sure you'll also like "Come On Get Happy", the theme song from the show.
That instrument is the Harpsichord! This was one of my recommendations, a 70's childhood classic I still listen to all the time! Silly fun Very 70's TV series! And Amber s Mom sounds super Groovy!
"The Partridge Family" was inspired by a real life family: The Cowsills. They did "Hair" (for the movie), "The Rain, The Park, and Other Things" (my personal favourite), and "Indian Lake", just to name a few.
I was just a school boy when this song came out… And the Partridge family TV show also came out. It was highly infectious music… Cassidy is amazing with vocals, and girls went nuts for him. It was actually because of this song that I started watching the television show, which was awesome too. I always wanted Shirley Jones to be my mom. 😆
I loved the Partridge family! The show was kind of goofy but they have some really good songs - David Cassidy (RIP) was a really good singer with a distinctive voice. Doesn't Somebody Want to Be Wanted, I'll Meet You Halfway are my favorites.
The Partridge Family was a t.v. show who was pretty much based on the real life family called The Cowsills. They have a few hits too. Hair The Rain, The Park and Other Things Indian Lake
The Partridge Family was an early '70s (1970 - 1974) sitcom based on real life singing family, the Cowsills (Hair, We can Fly, The Rain, the Park and Other Things). The mother was played by Shirley Jones and the lead singer was played by her stepson, David Cassidy (her son Shawn Cassidy was also a one time entertainer). She and David were the only real singers in the band.
The Cassidy's were a very talented family, father Jack Cassidy was an actor, singer and director, very debonair with piercing blue eyes, David was his son from his first marriage. David was a heart throb singer/Actor. The Partridge Family was a 70's family show, and Davd also recorded many songs featured on the show. Jack's second marriage was to Shirley Jones, actress in Oklahoma and a singer herself. Their son Shaun was also a heart throb, having some singing success in the 70's.
I used to watch The Partridge Family TV show back in the early 70s. They were based on the Cowsills, a family band of 5 brothers, 1 little sister, and their mother. The Cowsills sang "The Rain, The Park, and Other Things", "Hair", "Indian Lake" and tons more!! They were turned into a TV show about a family that sings with their mother in the band.
@@west_nebraska_dude4527 Thank you!! I've seen clips from the movie about the Cowsill's abusive father Bud. I'm a bit obsessed with the Cowsills. I would love to see the whole documentary. I am sure I will enjoy it. 😊
In fact, ABC wanted to do a variety/sitcom with the Cowsills, after a successful variety special, but no one wanted to work with the stage-dad-from-hell Bud Cowsill. But at least the Cowsills were consulted when ABC went for the fictionalized version instead.
The Partridge Family was on TV right after the Brady Bunch on Friday nights, and some say it was the success of the Partridges that inspired the producer of the Bradys to have the Brady Kids form their own musical group on their show (and like the Partridges, they put out several albums as well). Shirley Partridge was a widow trying to support her five kids who had started their own band to try to help pay the bills. Shirley ends up helping make a demo tape of this song, and son Danny plays it for Reuben Kincaid who becomes their manager. Shirley buys an old school bus, the kids repaint it in a wild, multicolor stained glass pattern with a sign on the back that says "Nervous Mother Driving" and that becomes the band's transportation. That distinctive instrument you heard was a harpsichord which was a keyboard instrument much like a piano, but when the keys hit the strings inside, they produced more of a tinny, almost metallic sound. The instrument was used much more frequently in the 1700s. If you watch movies set in that time, you may hear the instrument in scenes where they are dancing to a minuet.
The Partridge Family a made for TV group, that was on TV on Friday nights after the Brady Bunch. This was in the early 70s. They played the harpsichord, which Lerch played in the Addams Family. DavidcCassidy was the lead singer, Shirley Jones who played the mother on the show was David Cassidy's step mother at the time, she is an Oscar Winner and was the female lead in musicals such as Oklahoma & The Musi Man. This song was number 1 & a big hit was a junior in High School when this came out in 1970.
The Partridge Family was a sitcom that ran for 4 seasons (1970-1974) on ABC. It was about a family embarking on a music career. The cast included Shirley Jones as the widowed mother of the clan with her children Keith played by David Cassidy (Shirley's actual stepson), Susan Dey as Laurie (later acted on L.A. Law), Danny Bonaduce as Danny, Suzanne Crough as Tracy, Jeremy Gelbwaks, as Chris (1970-1971), and Brian Forster who replaced Jeremy as Chris (1971-1974). Their manager, Reuben was played by Dave Madden. Shirley and David were the only members of the cast who actually sang in the group because they were the only ones who COULD sing well. The offscreen singing members were John Bahler, Tim Bahler, Jackie Ward and Ron Hicklin.
In junior high I often dreamed of moving to Southern California, living in a beautiful house like the Partridges, hanging out at the Taco Hut on Friday nights with Keith and Laurie, and then in real life David Cassidy would realize I was the one he "thought he loved." David had such a beautiful voice, and found first fame at an early and vulnerable age. RIP.
Oh my how this takes me back late 1970 I was in junior high, watched every episode of the Partridge Family. This song is pure teen pop. I loved it so much, still do. Lead singer David Cassidy was a major teen heartthrob. There whole first album has SO many good songs on it. Check out I Woke Up in Love This Morning, Point Me in the Direction of Albuquerque, I Can Hear Your Heartbeat, Doesn't Somebody Want To Be Wanted, Come On Get Happy.
OMG! The Partridge family. This was the music in the early 70’s that I loved. I can’t believe you guys did a reaction to this! Im 59 years old now but was 10 yrs old when I was a fan of this group. There is so much more to discover from them. It was a TV show but was so popular back in the day. Very much pop history from back then. We all loved David Cassidy. Try “Summer Days “ by them . A 70s classic
I'm a big Partridge Family fan, also. I'm 66. Through the years, I've collected all 10 of their studio albums, all 17 singles, compilation albums, and their "Missing Pieces" album.
Fleetwood Mac band member Christine McVie has passed away. RIP. Thank you for the wonderful music, it will live on. Jordan and Amber would be nice to remember her with a reaction. ❤️
The instrument was a modern harpsichord which is a mid 18th century keyboard instrument. The song features David Cassidy and Shirley Jones, who played his mom on the hit show from the early to mid 1970s. 'I think I Love You,' released Aug. 22 1970. Love you guys keep on truckin'!
"I Woke Up in Love This Morning", "Doesn't Somebody Want to be Wanted", "I Can Feel Your Heartbeat", "I'll Meet You Halfway", and "Point Me in the Direction of Albuquerque" are some of their hits. You should also react to musical showstoppers and hear Shirley Jones - although she won a best supporting actress award for a dramatic non-singing role, it's musicals where she made her name.
I had David Cassidy posters all over my walls as a pre-teen. ❤️❤️ Yes, they were a singing TV family. I wish you had done the video so you could see Keith (David Cassidy), a super hottie. *** oh that instrument is a keyboard but it's set to hopsicord.
The harpsichord is a precursor of the piano (piano forté, meaning soft and loud), which fell out of favor because it had one volume. Rather than hammering the warp, as a piano does, it plucked it, like a harp. The Patridge Family began as a sitcom version of the Cowsills, a band of siblings & their mother. When the network cast Shirley Jones as their mom, the siblings balked - and walked. The show was quickly retooled as the Partridge Family and a cat was assembled. The character of Keith was, to the surprise of both of them, played by Shirley's stepson, David Cassidy. The show ran for several awesome,during which David became a full fledged, stadium packing, rockstar in real life. There was an incident at one of his shows in which the crowd surged and a girl was trampled and died. This, amidst his grueling tour/recording schedule and the show's production schedule was becoming too much. In He was offered the cover of Rolling Stone, to be shot by Annie Liebowitz. She suggested he do the shoot nude. He agreed. The photos became known as "Naked Lunchbox," with allusions to both his bubblegum pop/TV image, as well as William S Burroughs' book, Naked Lunch. When the issue hit the stands, the show was David so quickly that costar Danny Bonaduce only found out when he and his mother were barred entry to the studio lot, when he showed up for work. David Cassidy reinvented himself a number of times, winning an Emmy for a dramatic guest spot on a primetime procedural but, he never regained the mega stardom of the early 70s, in America. In Europe, he remained a solid pop star week into the eighties. Eventually he was on Broadway with 2 other former pop stars, Helen Reddy & his half-brother Shaun Cassidy. Unfortunately, dementia ran in his father, singer Jack Cassidy's family. He developed dementia and, shortly after going public, died. His daughter, Katie Cassidy, is an actor.
The lead singer is David Cassidy. He had a brother, Shaun Cassidy, who was also a singer. His top songs were probably That's Rock n' Roll, and Doo Doo Ron Ron.
I have all their albums on vinyl. Literally MY FAVORITE SHOW when I was 8, 9, 10.... We used to ply Partridge Family. I was always Laurie (of course). My middle sister had to be Danny. This is the soundtrack of gradeschool.
The Partridge Family is a TV show your girls will love. It was clean family humor. David Cassidy and Shirley Jones were the only musicians in the show. David would work on the show then go do recordings in evening and then tour on the weekend. Shirley Jones was actually his real life stepmother and had been in movie musicals. The Partridge Family was definitely on the lines of the Brady Bunch but with a widowed mother who ends up in her kids band and drives around in a psychedelic bus to different tours and of course home situations.
On the TV show Danny Bonaduce played Danny Partridge. One of the very few people on a TV comedy show that made me laugh out loud as a kid. I heard him on his own radio show about 20 years ago and he was still funny.
