Amazing Drummer!! Debra Pearce from Partridge Family!

This was a girl who appeared on the very first episode of The Partridge Family. Her name is Debra Pearce and at IMDB - or in any other search - very little is known about her. In this brief performance here, she is doing some advanced stuff for a kid her age!!! Even this day, it amazes me. She really captured the concept of several different idioms in one solo - a little wipeout in the beginning and a nice Gene Krupa ending - plus check out those 'sweeps' near the end.

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[withloveT]

well i can tell you that The Partridge Family was supposed to be written for her and her sisters in a band called the Pearce Sisters but they decided that they wanted to include boys in the show. They wanted to keep Debbie but her parents didn't want to split her up from the others. Well anyways they agreed to let the producers use her in the first episode. (: Now she lives in Florida and she's doing well! She still plays a little and she paints and whatnot, it's pretty cool!

[calism23]

@withloveT - Very cool - thanks for sharing that. I'd really like to find some clips of her playing now.

[calism23]

Where can I find video of her or her band? I've been wanting to find out what's become of her.

[biotda]

Debbie is still a great drummer. It is a pleasure to play with her. KC

[calism23]

@biotda - Where can I find video of her or her band? I've been wanting to find out what's become of her.

[misti295]

ThePartridge Family Was based on the cowsills not Debbie.

[velocity2themax]

Good ole' FOX, and I DONT even mean that sarcastically. This Queer wouldn't have been exposed to what I consider to be the original POP group the Partridge Family had their re-runs not aired on Fox Fam in early 2000s. I fell in love with their sound, bought every CD I could and even convinced a couple of my friends' parents to give me their vintage albums.. One of my friends mom's even cried when she gave me Shopping Bag, bc she saved the plastic bag all these years for someone to appreciate.

[penpusher]

@withloveT That's a very interesting story. However, the widely circulated tale is that "The Partridge Family" was really the story of The Cowsills, who ABC was apparently ready to bring on board to play the parts of the kids, with Shirley Jones as mom, but they didn't want their mother left out of the project so they vetoed the show and the network went ahead without them. Are they still the Pearce Sisters?

[kebler823]

just got home and turned on the TV and seen this very last seen on TV just as I did on Youtube! it's almost like I saw a replay! lol..............

[Charles787980]

I recall around this era seeing a young girl performing "wipeout" on the Lawrence Welk show. She was very good. Anybody know if it's the same girl.

[sussexcounty]

wow!  can't believe it!

[finmarc]

How many kids nowadays would get Ritalin from their docs to keep quiet?

[RoofFiddler]

This episode just aired on Antenna TV here in Chicago. Had to google that drummer kid, which led me here. LOL. Cool to see that she's posted here.