THE COWSILLS SING "INDIAN LAKE" AT EPCOT 2008

[bobtnner]

Susie is still a cutie.

[txbadgirl1]

Still love the music they made! I still have the original record that this was on...it has been played MANY times!

[Beatlejoose56]

What a shitbag

[gymnastix]

@shitbagsmith Who says gay guys only like disco music and show tunes? I've been a rock & roll guy most of my life, have no use for Madonna, Lady Gaga-goo-goo, or "Glee."

But, along with The Cowsills, Chuck Berry, Little Richard, The Everly Bros., Eddie Cochran, Ricky Nelson, The Ronettes, The Beach Boys, the Stones, The Shangri-Las, Lesley Gore, Herman's Hermits, Dusty Springfield, The Sonics, The New York Dolls, The Ramones, Blondie, The Undertones, and The Lyres rule!

[gymnastix]

@shitbagsmith @shitbagsmith I may also say now what, as a ten year-old boy, I didn't know and/or dare say back in the Dark Ages of 1968, that I also had a really big crush on Johnny Cowsill!

[gymnastix]

@shitbagsmith By the way, I still love David and Shaun Cassidy, and I still adore The Cowsills! Along with The Everly Brothers, that Rhode Island family produced some of the most beautiful harmonies ever laid down on the tracks of popular music recordings.

[gymnastix]

@shitbagsmith In fact, from an overnight rerun of that same talk show, about a year later, I heard from an old friend who happened to recognize my appearance in the studio audience of WBZ's edition of "People Are Talking," an episode starring Tom Bergeron, co-starring David Cassidy and, well, myself!

[gymnastix]

@shitbagsmith I didn't notice an appreciable spike in attendance at my band's show, from my plug of it on the local TV talk show. But, attending Cassidy's gig (which included his TV bro, Danny Bonaduce, warming up with his stand-up comedy routine) the night of his Boston TV talk show appearance, I learned something of the power of television, as several people came up to me and said they'd watched me on TV earlier that day.

[gymnastix]

@shitbagsmith But even if I didn't receive a completely honest answer to my question, I got to plug my own band's later-in-the week gig on that talk show with David Cassidy anyway, which (along with a bleached-blond, heavy metal wig concealing my off-stage skinhead appearance) put a smile on Cassidy's then-still-youthful face.

[gymnastix]

@shitbagsmith What can I say? Nuns and singing families, as well magic nannies, were all the rage in the mid-1960s.

Anywayz, Cassidy shrugged off my question. And, in fairness, maybe the negotiations with The Cowsills went down before Screen Gems involved him in "The Partridge Family?" Although I still find it hard to believe he, as the series' huge star, was unaware of its true history all those years later.

[gymnastix]

@shitbagsmith Cassidy denied it. But a friend who knows Susie Cowsill told me not only was that true, but Screen Gems had gone so far as to shoot some pick-up footage of The Cowsills in their home, had actually pitched a series about America's favorite family rock & roll band. It was also, after all, the era of the huge popularity of The Von Trapp Family, from the film version of Rodgers & Hammerstein's "The Sound Of Music" that starred "Mary Poppins."

[gymnastix]

@shitbagsmith Shame on them. Mrs. Cowsill was fabulous, and cool and hip for a parent of that era. She even reminded me of the mom of some classmates of mine, a woman who, coincidentally, also shared with the Cowsills' mom the first name of "Barbara."

[gymnastix]

@shitbagsmith I was lucky enough (thanks to my rock & roll appearance; was a vocalist in a garage/punk band at the time) I was selected to ask Cassidy a question on-camera. So I confronted "Keith Partridge" with what I knew to be a fact--that Screen Gems Productions originally wanted the actual Cowsills for a situation comedy TV series, but with an actress as their mother, because ABC and/or SG didn't think the late Barbara Cowsill photogenic enough.

[gymnastix]

@shitbagsmith About 20 years ago, I was in the studio audience of the Boston franchise of the syndicated TV talk show "People Are Talking," hosted by Tom Bergeron (now of "Dancing With The Hollywood Squares On America's Funniest Videos"), when actor/singer David Cassidy was a guest.

[gymnastix]

@shitbagsmith You got that right.

The Cowsills were and are the REAL (caps for emphasis, not in anger) "Partridge Family,"

Or maybe better put that "The Partridge Family" were the FAKE Cowsills?

David Cassidy and Shirley Jones could sing beautifully. But the rest all fiction.

[sunshine18102]

I love this song. I thought all the cowstills were cute. they were maybe 5 or 6 years older then me.

[714scout]

What a blast from the past~Love it!

[mollymitch1]

That is 2008? They still sound as good as when this song came out. Thanks for the posting. FANTASTIC

[BeingBrittany]

@mollymitch1 Yep this was 2008 they're awesome, and no problem!

[godfreymusic1]

Love it!!!! Brings back such great memories.

[snarkus63]

Glad to see all the trauma they've endured,both as a family and as performers,hasn't affected their musical ability!

[steve50fla]

they were good years ago and they are still good

[bolanett]

Beautiful!

[jarymica]

mom would be very proud!!!!

[HEARTHEANGELSVOICES]

BUBBLE GUM MUSIC AT IT'S BEST. CHEW ON BROTHERS & SISTERS CHEW ON & ON & ON & ON - - - - - STOP!

[rockdrumr429]

fucking GREAT!!!

[kennnmoran1]

Sound somewhatlike the original? Oh yeah!

[GARYLYNNBOOP]

Amanda,

This brings back many memories.

Gary & Judy Boop and Family

[interstategar]

they remind me alittle of the Mama's and Papa's harmonies

[Chanter41]

Great memories from the 60's

[gogetstuffed]

Great video...no lip sync and it sounds great...one of my favs.

[confidentk9]

Just saw them at BB King's NYC. Wow!!!! Blown away. What beautiful feelings they evoke. MUST SEE this band .Can't wait to see them again and again.

leslie : )

[surfczar]

they are such a talented family

[TheTwotonic]

they r still good with a great ditty...havent been able to lose the tune in me head lately.

[moshbud]

awesome video. brings back great memories of a too soon forgotten time. band is as good now as in days gone by.

[swimman155]

Great video....brings back some of my earliest memories. Thanks for posting it!

[GonzoGuyy]

Damn little Sue is kinda hot these days.

[ShockDoc]

Needs more vocals!

[jarymica]

ohhhhh man thanks!!!!!

[KLRJUNE]

Ww, they still got it after all these years and how 'bout that Susan!

[alpha18412]

Wish Folsom Prison Blues was still on YT 'cause Susan rocked that thing!

[makingsense53]

Oh my God that song still sounds great. That is one of the best little lost gems of all time. The Cowsills still sound great. As my mother would say, "God love em."  Peace.

[kismet818]

@makingsense53 DITTO!!!!!!!!!!

[lcfd24]

I grew up in the 60's and this song is what we call getting back to basics of love and good ole rock and role.

[turbo1964]

Cowsille Rock - then and now. The spirit and music is timeless!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[lcolby11]

The music of the 60s was soooooooo good,,,I feel sorry for this generation,,the music sucks

[iowa61]

Amazingly great stuff. 40 years on. Still relevant, still diggin' it...