We Can Fly -The Cowsills (Best upload online in stereo) 

Same here. I'm 72...

@@charlesstuart8009 I'm 65 and feel the same way. Billy was the first crush I ever had, and I was 8. My other crush, at the same time, was Barry Gibb. My parents used to say that never doubted that I was hetero. lol

They still are .

I agree 100%

Man I haven't watched the rock of fame in a long time. It's a joke these days. They have rappers in the rock of fame. But long live the king of rock n roll. Going to Graceland in May taking my mom she's 80. She seen the king 3 times in the 50s. TX

I definitely agree. The Cowsills' music is absolutely timeless!♥️🎶👍💯❗

The RRHOF is a mismanaged joke! A nice 1/2 day's visit, however, I must admit. For ALL deserving to be in a "HOF", the place would necessarily need to be at least 10-20 times bigger.

Did anyone actually buy, the 'crock of shit' i have just listened to, lol. Effing hell people bought anything in the 60s. The above is the worst song i have ever heard. And the playing and singing, is absolutely atrocious!.lol though!!

This was in the 60s. Bill left, I thing, in 1970.

right there with ya man , it is a really great song,

I would have been around seven or eight years old when that song came out. I loved it, still do!

It was used for an airline commercial in Australia in the early 1970s

I actually love the councils but I never heard this song before and I really don't like it so I guess I'm that kind of a person....I don't like it exactly because it's light and breezy and sounds like a commercial. But I love their other songs so please don't be offended in any way

Oh my God I am that person.... I don't like this song. I love a lot of their songs but this is light and breezy and sounds like a commercial. Which is why I really hate it.

I never quite understood about the labels, if they are good songs they are good songs. I've had so many people who have told me "this is a country song", "this is a pop song", "this is a rock song", "this a metal song". The last one was the most surprised about. I was singing along with "War Pigs" and my husband told me that was Black Sabbath and the they were heavy metal. I never cared. If I liked it, I liked it.

John is now back with them, singing together.

69ssrszl1 yes they are the best. The Cowsills had unique sound. I listen to them almost everyday.

I love the Cowsills, but in my opinion best family group was the Beach Boys.

@@jeffkrajnak1880 by the way John Cowsill plays the drums for the Beach Boys, not sure you knew that.

Me, too. I loved them when I was little, but, now that I'm older, I have found an even greater respect and awe from their music, and with the technology of earphones and plugs, you can really appreciate the many layers and levels their musical genius was and is.

Love the vocals in this song....😊👍👍👍

Well said, I love the Cowsills music and Im a Led Zeppelin fan

I was very jealous and pleased that Susan, who is my age, actually got to sing in public with her family. We always sang but not to that extent.

Beatles❤Girl Thanks for another great video, and music of the Cowsills. Their music brings back such happy memories of my youth ,that nothing else can.

Joe Comer You need to go back further. The soundies of the 30's and 40's.

***** The soundies were not rock/pop like the music videos of the 50's, 60's, 70's, 80's and so on. Also, they were not videos in that they were shot for showing in movie theatres not in a VIDEO medium such as television!! The Cowsills clip was meant to be shown on television shows like American Bandstand. Just as the later music videos were meant to be shown on MTV and other such BROADCAST medium.

Of course soundies included popular music of the day, so its really the same thing don't you think?

+GypsyFairy85 Soundies certainly were short clips that were available to be seen by some of the public. And they did include popular music of the day, but so did many of the feature presentations, also shown in those theatres. No, I don't think it's exactly the same thing. Not all theatres showed soundies. But from the 50's on very few houses were without televisions. Once artists learned how to use the broadcast medium reaching many more people than a showing at a movie theatre might have, it became a whole new ball game. That is when the true birth of the music video happened. Folks like the Cowsills and the Beatles were among the first to promote songs in such a commercial and extensive fashion. In fact, I think it's safe to say that once the 70's and 80's arrived, a music VIDEO shown on a network like MTV soon became the ONLY way to promote each individual tune. Not necessarily true of the soundies. They were certainly not the main way to promote them. Radio served as important, if not more so, an opportunity to get a song heard during the 30's and 40's. You might even say that soundies were just as much a part of a program at many movie theatres as the cartoons and the feature being presented. They really were as much an entertainment feature as they were a commercial. Keep in mind that theatres were the only way for many people of the day to actually SEE their favorite artists as well as hear them. Because of the somewhat limited availability of them, they didn't always have that opportunity then. Of course you did have those few recording artists that managed to do well in the film industry but they were exceptions to the rule. Fast forward to the 50's and beyond, when television and later video was so important to the sales of a song and those opportunities increased twofold. There was the occasional concert, a guest appearance on a variety show, perhaps a music special all opportunities for an artist to be seen. But yet, and, some would argue about this, it was those short music videos broadcast nationally that really sold an individual recording. Certainly that had to be at least partially the inspiration for MTV. Why not have a network that does nothing BUT promote each individual record with a video per song? And reach far more people than ever before. Than there is the style the clips are presented. Soundies were mainly the songs presented in a much more straight-forward concert like way. When videos first started to catch on in the 80's there was much more that was involved. Sets, locations, costumes and most importantly editing played an important part. It's safe to say that the way a video clip used the craft of editing alone, could make or break the chance for a song to become a hit. While that technique was hardly mastered in the 60's, again bands like the Beatles and the Cowsills can now be looked upon as being among the first to create short films in the same way.

Joe Comer I believe this was shown on "Happening '68", a show that aired after "The New American Bandstand 1968" on Saturday afternoons on ABC-TV. I know it's from "Happening" because of the Dick Clark productions logo at the lower right of the screen. Also, I saw the same clip, but in black and white. On another note, "Happening" was hosted by Paul Revere and the Raiders.

Bill Cowsill did the arrangement. Maybe Bill wasn't Brian Wilson or Jeff Lynne, but he was talented and had the personal character and integrity to meet the problems of his dad's mistreatment of his family and pay off the taxes on money his dad never let them see or benefit from.

@@Azishome The group was "pure talent", unlike some of the "manufactured groups" in that era ( You know, the ones who used "The Wrecking Crew" for instrumentals and the Ron Hicklin singers ).. It was a shame the Cowsills had a horrible father for a manager ( he ruined many things -they had a contract to do 10 Ed Sullivan shows and the father ruined that )..

I have to totally hands down agree she was the most cute,young girl and my own age back then, had kinda of a crush like a million other young guys did then ,wow, though she was cuter than cute, just sayin

+BettinaBalser, I agree that putting Mom Cowsill and Susan in a rock band was a poor decision, but neither of them had a hand in making it. If you ever see the documentary, Family Band, on the Cowsills, you will find that Bud Cowsill, the head of the Cowsill family, was not a very nice man. He did some horrid things. But it was essentially he who called the casting shots. One of the sons, I forget which one, ended up in Vietnam because of Bud's heartless and unappealable decision that the brother didn't have talent--though the public version is that he wasn't interested in music. The Cowsill kids and mom lived in virtual hell due to the philandering and apparent mismanagement of the $20-million fortune the group earned in 1970s dollars. The kids never saw any of the money but ended up paying back taxes and penalties for years. Very sad for such a great group of kids and their Mom.

It was released in 1967

Has anyone ever checked this out?

Joseph Forest,In Sept. of 1968 they moved to Santa Monica for their full time home.