My fact is The Partridge Family would have been the widowed mother on lead vocals and her children on backing vocals singing with big voices and big hearts in a strong and powerful manner instead of the son Keith Partridge on lead vocals and his mother Shirley Partridge singing backup in a weak and powerless style.
The Partridge Family is an American musical sitcom starring Shirley Jones and featuring David Cassidy. Jones plays a widowed mother, and Cassidy plays the oldest of her five children who embark on a music career. It ran from September 25, 1970, until March 23, 1974, on the ABC network as part of a Friday-night lineup, and had subsequent runs in syndication. The family was loosely based on the real-life musical family the Cowsills, a popular band in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
This is my favorite episode, "My Heart Belongs To A Two-Car Garage", taken from the musical family sitcom, "The Partridge Family".
Here's the story about my favorite episode:
Russian handyman, who claims to be a world-class artist, paints a nude woman on the family's garage that puts the neighborhood in an uproar. Guest Star: Arte Johnson as Nicholas Minsky Pushkin
Song: "Last Night",
performed by Debbie Sims (widowed mother on lead vocals)
Note: strong and powerful background vocals on Debbie Sims' northern soul version of this song are more soulful than the first backing vocals of Shirley Jones and The Ron Hicklin Singers that sounded soulless, weak and powerless.
LAST NIGHT
Performed by Debbie Sims
Written by Wes Farrell & Tony Romeo
Musicians: Lead Vocal – Debbie Sims (Mother Partridge)
Music played The Wrecking Crew
Background Vocals – Don Wood, Russell Gonzalez, Alison Edwards , Laurie Maitland, Liz McKay, Theresa Joanou
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