Sit Down! It's Cowsillmania!
The Cowsills was a long-running T.V. show, featuring the everyday adventures of an extended family living in a one-room country shack on Cowsill Mountain, LA. Mom Olivia (played by Shirley Jones, MILF) and Pop John (Dennis Hopper) dispensed homespun wisdom to their adorable "tribe": John-Boy, Jim-Bob, Bob-Boy, Jim-Roger, Ethyl and Regular, Corabeth and Marybeth and a cast of characters that plucked at your heartstrings while tickling your funny-bone!
But did you know they also recorded several best-selling albums?! And that John-Boy, played by teen heartthrob David Cassidy, went on to be a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and play drums for the touring Beach Boys?!
Today's bursting-with-family-values package offers a representative overview of this happy heartlands combo!
Captain Sad is their concept album, and as relevant today as it was back then.
On My Side is their country rock album recorded in '71 after they ritually incinerated their love beads. The cover shot was taken at ToastWorld©, and shows the band posing in front of the world's largest slice of toast!
Cocaine Drain is ... gee .. WTF? This isn't even at Discogs ... they were clearly out of their freaking minds ...
EDIT: This is a fantastic album, and deserves a proper, sonically cleaned-up release.
And you also get, at no extra charge, Billy-Bob Cowsill's throat-slashingly rare solo album from 1970, Nervous Breakthrough. Why? I'll tell ya for why, ya cheap chiseler! Because we go the extra mile here at Th' House O'Foam© to ensure that you, Mr. Four Or Five Guy, gets the entertainment value you've come to expect, ya freeloadin' bum! G'wan! Grab 'em an' scram before I change my mind!
(A spin o' th' propeller beanie to Lupine Assassin and Tremolo)
Susan Cowsill lives in NO and is still very active in the music scene (and has some great albums to her credit); she is also married to another local musician, drummer, Russ Broussard. Had her best post-Cowsills success as a member of The Continental Drifters (great Americana band). And, I would love some links (esp since your last recommendations left me in need of a new laptop)!
ReplyDeleteI don't believe a word of it, pmac. Please try to maintain the rigorous standards of journalistic integrity for what th' House O' Foam© has become a household word (that's Household, ID).
DeleteI have one or two menial tasks - personal hygiene - to undertake before I shovel this up onto an internet. "Soon, Zoltan! You must have patience!"
BILL COWSILL 1970 ALBUM , I NEED DOWNLOAD WITH LINK, OK ? BROTHER FRIEND, PLEASE AND THANKS.
ReplyDeleteJeez, Raulzimdimaio@gmail.com, lemme pull my pants up fer cryin' out loud!! An' QUIT YELLIN'!
DeleteHere's yer link!
The link is broken... Barry Cowsill was was my sister's neighbor in Newport, RI, a couple years before he was found dead on a wharf in New Orleans after Katrina.
ReplyDelete
ReplyDeleteTry this?
This works...Thanks!
DeleteOr this?
ReplyDeleteThanks! Especially for "Cocaine Drain"!
ReplyDeleteyou forgot their lovable housemaid/servant/confessor/paramour/comforter Shultzie who constantly said "love that Bob" as the laff track exploded again and again
ReplyDeleteDear sirs) and or, madam(s) and or, (others)
ReplyDeleteJust a heads up to let you know I'll be using the phrase
"as relevant today as it was back then"
frequently and often in my reviews of many albums and CD's discussed in my support group from here on out.
Cheers and thanks for the fish,
obeygravity
Curse you, FT3. I was quite content having just Cocaine Drain and Global and most (if not all) of Susan's contributions (solo, Continentals, Psycho sisters and even Lil' Sis Hobart), but now I've been forced to go and find all the earlier group recordings. This is what obsessional completism does to a chap. But the TV show passed me by. Was it shown in the UK?
ReplyDeleteIt ran for eleven years in Fernando Po, where Cowsill Mountain is now a National Monument.
Delete"Love that Bob!"
Public Service Announcement/
ReplyDeleteThe Cowsills "Cocaine Drain" album was recorded over an extended period of time in the late 1970's at Clover Studios in Hollywood...Never commercially released (until now) what you hear was digitally transferred from the only existing copy of the record on an old-school vinyl acetate. That explains all of the clicks and pops. So sorry about that. But, it's all we were able to salvage. We've tried to clean it up as best as possible for you and still maintain the warmth of the original recordings. It's all here. Hope you enjoy! -Bob Cowsill
For any one interested the first (self-titled album) and the In Concert album can both be found in full on youtube, as can the early 45s (pre-MGM) and the later 45s on London.
ReplyDeleteYou confused the Cowsills with the partridge family. You describe the Partridges in your introduction, and then you chronicle the Cowsills' music.
ReplyDeleteAt least I got The Waltons right.
DeleteJeez Luiz, I'd almost pay for that tv show! Guess I'll have to settle for the soundtrack which is better than a poke in the pen with a fat hen
ReplyDeleteYoutube too for Barry's As Is album.
ReplyDeleteThanks..where is the link?
ReplyDeleteMy comments, March 21. 10:37, and 10:40. Two working links.
DeleteGot it thanks.Keep up the good work.
ReplyDelete