Did Any of you Old Whores Do Bud Cowsill?

Mom looked fairly lesbian.

Everybody sing. They are responsible for The Partridge Family:

Without Bob Cowsill, there may never have been a Keith Partridge.

"Me and my brother, Bill, I think were a composite for the Keith Partridge character," said Bob Cowsill about the role that singer David Cassidy played on the television sitcom "The Partridge Family."

The singing Cowsill family, which eventually included five brothers, a sister and their mom, Barbara, in the group, was the basis for the TV show, which ran on ABC-TV from 1970 to 1974, and featured Shirley Jones as the mother of the family.

"In early 1970 a team came to us from Screen Gems, the film production company," Bob Cowsill said. "They wanted to do a concept of our band for TV. My dad wanted us to be in it, but they turned us down to be the kids in the show. It was always a Shirley Jones vehicle, so Mom would never play mom in the show. And we were not interested in TV at the time anyway. We wanted to have a band and be rock stars."

The Cowsills were talented. They are playing live on that clip, which was rare even back then.

Apparently, their home life was awful. And their mother was a drunk who didn't protect them from their angry father.

They were the real deal. So talented with beautiful harmonies.

Link to the documentary, OP?

I love the little tambourine girl, she has the moves!

Oh my my am i THAT OLD ??????!

Susan was such a great little entertainer, what a natural.

She’s fat and frauey looking now but she seems like a cool lady.

They tried to push Susan as a Suzi Quattro rocker in the mid 70s but it didn’t take off. Too bad, she was pretty and had talent.

Doc is still on amazon prime

They were ok, I guess.

Wasn’t the partridge family a real family?

^ Yes and they lived in a pear tree

You'd never catch one of the Cowsill boys doing this..............

A teen star displaying a body like that today would be a laughingstock.

Barry drowned in Hurricane Katrina.

[quote]Doc is still on amazon prime

That isn't the doc I was talking about. The one I saw was on YouTube.

It was obviously based on the same interviews, but the YouTube one left in the spicier remarks that the Amazon documentary left out.

All the remarks about the father being a bisexual sex maniac were in the YouTube doc. Same as the aunts talking about both parents doing drugs and the father dying of AIDS. And the son's recalling how his father would say, "I don't want any of my sons being homosexuals" when he knew Dad liked the dick.

Are any of the sons gay?

John Cowsill is married to Vicki Peterson of The Bangles.

Wiki says daddy died of leukemia

Unfortunate last name and faces.

I think this is the documentary referenced at R17.

This is my introduction to the Cowsills.

I don't know why I clicked on this thread but now I'm going down a Cowsill rabbit hole...

I also watched this...

[quote]The Cowsills on each other. Cut footage from Family Band: The Cowsills Story.

The song at R2 is beautiful and extremely well performed. I love Susan’s animated performance on the tambourine. (Suzanne Crough on THE PARTRIDGE FAMILY should have taken note.). The young drummer is excellent as well. Who is the brother singing lead? He has a very nice voice.

R1, that's how women looked in 1968-70. Of course to you short hair makes them lesbians

the drummer brother is the permanent touring drummer for the Beach Boys, he does those summer nostalgia tours with them. Those probably make more money than the multi-act package deals that the Cowsills have to be part of. Since they didn’t write their chart hits, and the father supposedly squandered their millions, it’s safe to say they’re regular middle class folks who count on the summer oldies circuit to make a living.

The audio on both of those YouTube videos linked is so up-and-down and uneven it's very annoying.

Also, the Cowsills look really unflattering and it was poorly shot. It's sad. I was much more of a Bobby Sherman fan as a kid. I never liked the Cowsills and now I know why.

R27, this is what it says under the video description at R23:

[quote]Warning: This is a very rough cut from my beginning stabs at making a film. THIS WAS NEVER MIXED. I no longer have access to the individual tracks. My apologies. This cut was done years ago, using Final Cut 7. The sound varies in volume. I offer it here for your enjoyment.

I haven’t watched the Amazon documentary but I’m assuming it’s better quality, the creator was kind enough to upload interviews that are not included in the final version.

the two younger sons were frequent coverboys on teenie-bopper magazines like Tiger Beat. The older ones, bless their hearts.

Here are some of the Cowsills on Joan Rivers show....Bob is kind of odd....

R30 It's interesting that they were all lying about their father at that time.

I haven’t watched the interview at R30 but based on it being the Joan Rivers Show I’m going to guess their father was still alive at the time and they waited until after he died to speak truthfully.

… but I really don’t know, I had never heard of these people until this thread was created last weekend.

Little tambourine girl is much more animated than her zombie tv show counterpart.

They really were masters of harmony. Check out "Hair" -- an odd song when taken out of context of the show ("Aquarius" is able to be a stand-alone song). Funny to remember how controversial hair, [italic]Hair[/italic], and "Hair" all were.

Do all these big family groups have evil fathers?

^^ Ya gotta blame someone for the failures in your life.

Their music is pretty damn good for pop rock of the time. Groovy and psychedelic and aged well. Way way better than the crap of The Osmonds.

They are very plain-looking and I get why TV producers didn't think they could carry a television sitcom.

R16 Yeah Barry had a sad ending.

[quote] On August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina hit the city of New Orleans. Cowsill, who chose not to evacuate, weathered the storm in an abandoned warehouse. Cowsill survived the storm but was in need of help. He called his sister Susan from a pay phone (Susan also lived in New Orleans with her family but chose to evacuate) and left four voice mail messages saying he was surrounded by looters and people shooting. Susan Cowsill did not receive the messages until September 2. Cowsill was never heard from again. After an extensive search, Cowsill's body was found under a wharf on the Mississippi River on December 28, 2005. His body was subsequently identified by comparison to dental records. Cowsill's death was attributed to drowning as a result of the flooding following Hurricane Katrina.

The Cowsills still perform. They are actually quite good, and have a great rapport with their audiences. Who knew.

I love their version of this, if anything it's better than the Four Tops. So groovy, the young drummer was just the best on it.

Cowsills , Sept 10, 2022.

I'm watching the documentary now and when I googled Bud Cowsill to see what happened to the POS, this thread was the first thing that popped up.

I really liked their singing! Interesting documentaries on this thread - I don't need to see anymore.

I hope some folks find this thread and listen to their music for the first time. They were real musicians and singers!

And Johnny on drums was fantastic!

Bad Girls

Loved their single Indian Lake. It was fun and jangly.

In the clip at R2, Mama looks like a cross between DL icon, Geri Blanck and DL icon Frieda Claxton!

The Cowsills at the Playboy Mansion. One of them was married to a Bunny.

Barry was a good looking kid.