The Partridge Family - that was my FAVORITE TV show at the time and still is one of my favorites to this day. Frankly I think it's held up very well and much better than The Brady Bunch - which I can't stand now. It was not only funny but interestingly when you study and think about it actually was very down to earth.
Originally the show was supposed to be loosely based on The Cowsills ...
Yes, I agree the first s/t album is quite a good record ... lots of good songs and memories of the show. I remember a friend of mine explaining to me and showing me on the records that it was actually Shirley, David and a bunch of studio musicians performing and not the "family" on the TV show - I was so SHOCKED! Then again I was about 9 or 10. My friend had all the albums, etc. I forget the exact reasons why but couldn't convince or didn't even ask my parents to buy me the records. I did have both complete sets of the Partridge Family bubble gum cards though. Don't have them with me and kind of kick myself for not keeping them with me. By the time I got to where I was buying my own records ... I thought I was a bit too old for them and their time at least in the 70's had passed anyway.
I finally found a vinyl copy of the first Partridge Family album during my thrift shop madness ... and a couple other of their albums too. Took me awhile because it's very difficult to find most of those records by "family" groups from the 70's (e.g. Partridge, Osmond, Jackson, DeFranco, etc.) in any kind of decent condition.
Great excuse to bump this thread GCCZEP !!
