Tonight for my second edition of the groovy 70s music showcase named after a popular late night music showcase called The Midnight Special I've chosen a song from a band which in actuality wasn't a band at all.
Let me explain.
Back in my innocent youth I was in love with the 1970 sitcom The Partridge Family. As you probably already know the show featured a family pop music act called ... you guessed it ... The Partridge Family. The show centered around how the family unit dealt with being a popular music act and what girl Keith Partridge (David Cassidy) fell in love with that week.
While Keith was falling in love with a different girl each week, I was developing my first crush on Laurie Partridge played by Susan Dey. Yes my heart did flip flops for Lauarie.
Of course I outgrew that crush as I was exposed to Lynda Carter and and endless parade of Playmates of the month.
To be honest, I had forgotten about Susan Dey and what I liked about her. In looking up pictures of the actress I quickly realized what that eight year old knew all to well.
She's a fox.
Just look at the photo to the left. She's adorable.
Anyway, lets get back to the music.
About The Partridge Family Music:
The studio concoction that informs the Partridge Family sound features lead singer David Cassidy, members of the Ron Hicklin Singers as backing vocalists, and several of the era's most highly regarded studio musicians, now known as "the Wrecking Crew". Cassidy's co-star and real-life stepmother Shirley Jones also features on the recordings, though there remains speculation that she can be heard more prominently in the TV mixes of the songs than in the album mixes. In each episode of the sitcom the TV family of six are seen on screen together in recording sessions and concert performances, playing the part of performers, but none except Cassidy and Jones was involved in any of the actual recordings. Two tracks on the 1970 debut LP The Partridge Family Album do not feature Cassidy. These songs, "I'm on the Road" and "I Really Want to Know You", were sung in blended-harmony style by members of the Ron Hicklin Singers: brothers John and Tom Bahler, Ron Hicklin and Jackie Ward (who in 1963, as Robin Ward, charted with the no. 14 hit "Wonderful Summer"). These professional singers feature throughout the Partridge Family's output.
Cassidy was originally to lip sync to dubbed vocals with the rest of the cast but convinced Farrell that he could sing, and was allowed to join the studio ensemble as the lead singer
Here is your bonus video: Point Me In The Direction Of Albuquerque.
Why does this all go back to male hormones?
I don't know I'm just a man.
The Partridge Family was created for television by Bernard Slade, and the series' executive producer was Bob Claver. The show was inspired by and loosely based on the Cowsills, a family pop music group that was famous in the late 1960s. In the show's early development, the Cowsill children were considered by the producers, but because the Cowsills were not trained actors and were too old for the roles as scripted, Slade and Claver abandoned that idea. Shirley Jones had already been signed as mother Shirley Partridge and star of the show. Surviving members of the Cowsill family have more recently suggested that in fact they were the leading contenders for the child roles, but the deal was wrecked because their tyrannical father insisted that his own wife should play the mother role, despite the producers' insistence that Jones's casting in the role of Mrs Partridge was not negotiable.
The pilot was filmed in December 1969. This unaired pilot differs from the pilot that was broadcast in 1970. In the unaired pilot, Shirley's name is Connie and she has a boyfriend played by Jones's real-life husband at the time, Jack Cassidy, father of David Cassidy. Laurie mentions her late father once getting drunk at a Christmas party. The family has a different address and lives in Ohio.
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