Posted on 01/28/2023 1:42:36 PM PST by DallasBiff
1970 song that went to # 1 in the US and # 18 in the UK. A hit in other countries including Ireland, Canada and Australia. Perry Como recorded a version of the song also.
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As a kid, we all had the hots for Laurie. But I secretly thought Mrs Partridge was the real looker!
Pretty much The Wrecking Crew played on all their songs.
In my rotation, along with Steely Dan, Led Zeppelin, Miles Davis, Homer & Jethro, Stravinsky, Beatles, Bach, etc.
The first MILF.
The Wrecking Crew must have laughed themselves silly when this hit #1 😃
What about June Cleaver?😉
Before my time.
'Partridge Family' Star Suzanne Crough Dead at 52
April 28, 2015
Suzanne Crough, bottom right, with her TV family
Suzanne Crough, best known for her role in the “Partridge Family” in the 1970s, has died, reports TMZ. She was 52.
Crough passed away at her home in Nevada. A family source said it was sudden; no cause of death was given.
The actress, who played the youngest family member Tracy Partridge, was married with two daughters.
Danny Bonaduce likes to tell the story (possibly apocryphal) about how the readers of one or another of the teen music magazines voted him No. 1 (or No. 2) bass player in the world, neck and neck with Paul McCartney. So, it may have been Carol Kaye or Ray Pohlman or Lyle Ritz on the record, but Danny was getting the fan mail.
Used to watch the show as a kid and never knew until later in life that it was based on the Cowsills. The Cowsill kids were to play the parts but the producers wanted Shirley Jones to play the mother, and it’s said the Cowsill kids turned it down for that reason.
Oh yeah, definitely the Mom!
Susan Dey was heartbreakingly beautiful.
I was just turning 8 years old when the Partridge Family debuted on TV. I remember having this song on a 45 vinyl record.
In the early 1970s, I carried a Partridge Family lunchbox to school, complete with thermos, in which my mother put in milk, or chocolate milk, if she was feeling generous. Rounded out with peanut butter sandwich, a piece of fruit - usually a banana or apple - and maybe a Twinkie, in those individually wrapped plastic sleeves.
I was obsessed with the Partridge Family, along with The Brady Bunch, which both were shown on Friday nights back then.
I remember writing Reuben Kincaid, asking to join the band. I actually thought the Partridge Family bus would show up in front of my house and whisk me away. What I got instead was a form letter inviting me to join the Partridge Family fan club. Along with a glossy photo of Keith Partridge (David Cassidy). Yuck. I gave the photo to my sister who was obsessed with David Cassidy and was wiser to the world. It was my "Christmas Story" Ovaltine moment.
This was part of the "sunshine pop" genre of the late 1960s/early 1970s.
Really, the Partridge Family put out some fantastic pop music. Even though it was performed by professionals (Wrecking Crew) and not actually performed by the TV actors. Though David Cassidy and Shirley Jones did actually sing. The rest of them sort of just shuffled around and tapped on a tambourine or something.
I’m ashamed to say I know the lyrics and had the 45
Still sing it in the shower every blue moon
I was in the 1st grade at the time or the highest intellectual grade level for any Democrat, and our teacher wrote out the lyrics for us lol lol I don’t know why. Good song though, I even remember the name of the guy who wrote it - Tony Romeo who seems to have disappeared after that song.
“ The rest of them sort of just shuffled around and tapped on a tambourine or something. ”
That’s pretty much all they look like they’re doing too
Danny looks like he’s feeling up his bass guitar
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