Something's Wrong is great by...I hate to admit it...The Partridge Family

I don't know about the music, but I sometimes watch the reruns. Funny show, at times.

 

NEVER apologize for liking something. I really don't care if people don't think I'm cool because I like certain music. I don't have to justify it to anyone.

 

This my jam:

 

There were a couple of songs used in the show that never appeared on LP/CD releases. I should seek out the songs and do digital drops. I'm a fan of their better material. Iove the first three albums -- Sound Magazine being their finest!

 

Very good song. Never heard of it before...

 

I love the PF but don't get me started on that little kid in the final season

 

What little kid in the final season -- please do tell.

 

http://www.cmongethappy.com/people/realrick.html

 

Can't say Ricky did that much for me, even when I was his age

 

Doesn't your heart just melt when little Ricky walks in at 2:38?

 

No, but my brain begins to melt.

 

It was the b-side of "I Think I Love You"

Darryl

 

Not certain whether it was the first, but 'My Three Sons', about a widower raising his three sons alone [eventually remarries] debuted September 1960 - predating both 'The Partridge Family ' and 'The Brady Bunch'.

IIRC, 'Make Room For Daddy' [aka 'The Danny Thomas Show'] had Danny Thomas a widower for about a season sometime in the late 1950s - not certain that counts as it was a weird way to explain to the audience the absence of the the leading lady who played Thomas' wife. Suddenly they just pretended matter-of-factly the character was dead and his character remarried a season or two later.

P.S. Just came across this website. Looks like 'My Little Margie' [1952] was the first single parent tv show. (Long before my time; I've never seen it.)

http://www.tvdads.com/tvd1950.shtml

 

There were several shows in the 1960s such as "Bachelor Father" and "Family Affair" that had both parents killed off and relatives (bachelor men) raising the kids

"The Lucy Show" had Lucille Ball as a widowed mother and housemate Vivian Vance as a divorced mother.

 

I love the verses of "Something's Wrong" but the chorus leaves me cold.

 

Very well-crafted songs throughout the series, but SW is not among my favorites.

 

Something's Wrong made it to a b-side.

FRIEND AND A LOVER/Something's Wrong - Bell 45-336 - April 1973
entered the charts on 4/14/73, peaked on 4/21/73, spent 2 weeks on the Hot 100 and 1 week at Number 99

Darryl

 

Thanks for all the info on the older single parent TV shows. I clearly was not thinking right.

 

Some of you might enjoy stopping by this thread as well and casting a vote or four:

http://forums.stevehoffman.tv/threads/poll-favorite-partridge-family-albums.425486/