{"id":11423,"date":"2016-09-07T05:30:53","date_gmt":"2016-09-07T09:30:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=11423"},"modified":"2016-09-06T09:42:44","modified_gmt":"2016-09-06T13:42:44","slug":"the-cowsills-on-tour-pop-american-style","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2016\/09\/07\/the-cowsills-on-tour-pop-american-style\/","title":{"rendered":"The Cowsills on Tour: Pop, American Style"},"content":{"rendered":"

As a band, the Cowsills<\/strong> formed in 1965. But they can make a credible claim to having been together much earlier. A self-contained group made up completely of family members \u2013 five brothers, a sister and their mom \u2013 the real-life Cowsills were the inspiration for the popular TV series The Partridge Family<\/i>. All 5 of their late 1960s albums charted, and they’re best remembered for their 1967 smash hit, \u201cThe Rain, The Park & Other Things.\u201d<\/p>\n

A half-century later, three of the surviving Cowsills carry on the family tradition, performing their fun, feel-good sunshine pop for 21st<\/sup> century audiences. Today the group includes brothers Bob<\/strong> and Paul<\/strong> plus their youngest sibling, Susan<\/strong> (John Cowsill<\/strong> performs with his siblings when he’s not on tour with The Beach Boys<\/strong>, a gig he’s held since 2000).<\/p>\n

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\u201cBetween February 9, 1964 \u2013 the night we all saw the Beatles on the Ed Sullivan Show<\/i> \u2013 and 1970, there was a finite number of groups who came out based on what we saw and heard and felt that night,\u201d Susan Cowsill says. \u201cThe Cowsills belong to that demographic of bands. And because we’re 10 years younger than our peers, we’re kind of the ‘last of the Mohicans’ of that genre and era.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Cowsills are part of the Happy Together Tour 2016, a package concert that includes other 1960s hitmakers such as Mark Lindsay<\/strong><\/a> (formerly of Paul Revere & the Raiders<\/strong><\/a>), Gary Puckett<\/strong>, Three Dog Night<\/strong>‘s Chuck Negron<\/strong>, The Spencer Davis Group<\/strong>, and headliner\/hosts The Turtles<\/strong><\/a>. \u201cThis is our second year,\u201d says Susan. \u201cWe had been trying to get on [the tour] forever<\/i>. We’re so grateful to be on the tour; it’s the best thing to happen to me and my brothers.\u201d<\/p>\n