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Come On, Get Happy: A Partridge Pilgrimage (split)
d'Kong76 Nov 16 2017 05:29 PM |
Ray Bolger is best known for playing the Scarecrow in The Wizard of Oz, but in later years,
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Edgy MD Nov 16 2017 06:35 PM Re: Things You Didn't Know Until You Learned About Them in 2 |
Those are three awful episodes. There's also a fourth episode with Jackie Coogan playing him. Once a season, they built an episode around Shirley's parents taking mean snipes at each other and threatening to divorce and drawing these poor fatherless kids into it. It was so filled with anxiety.
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d'Kong76 Nov 16 2017 06:42 PM Re: Things You Didn't Know Until You Learned About Them in 2 |
Although I watched it religiously, there's very little I remember about the
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Edgy MD Nov 16 2017 06:57 PM Re: Things You Didn't Know Until You Learned About Them in 2 |
I ran through the entire run a few years ago when I first started using Netflix. The plots don't hold together well, and the lack of consistency from episode to episode is ridiculous when you binge watch 'em. The same kid plays like four different Laurie boyfriends.
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Benjamin Grimm Nov 16 2017 07:09 PM Re: Things You Didn't Know Until You Learned About Them in 2 |
Maybe Laurie's boyfriend didn't like being dumped, so he just pretended to be somebody else again and again so he'd keep getting another shot at her.
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Edgy MD Nov 16 2017 07:19 PM Re: Things You Didn't Know Until You Learned About Them in 2 |
Here he is: Bruce Kimmel. He played four roles over five episodes — all, I believe, were as various paramours of Laurie.
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d'Kong76 Nov 16 2017 07:28 PM Re: Things You Didn't Know Until You Learned About Them in 2 |
Without looking, I betcha he was on Love American Style and/or The Love Boat too.
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John Cougar Lunchbucket Nov 16 2017 09:57 PM Re: Things You Didn't Know Until You Learned About Them in 2 |
I too have taken the bait on that Laurie Partridge lure more times than I'd like to admit.
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Ceetar Nov 16 2017 10:02 PM Re: Things You Didn't Know Until You Learned About Them in 2 |
MeTV channel 3 on FIOS plays all these old shows. I heard some of the Brady Bunch recently (the two..middle? children were competing for school president or something) at like 7am i think.
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dgwphotography Nov 16 2017 11:01 PM Re: Things You Didn't Know Until You Learned About Them in 2 |
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Yeah, I admit to having this on vinyl (actually, still do. I found a ton of old vinyl downstairs)
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d'Kong76 Nov 17 2017 12:56 AM Re: Things You Didn't Know Until You Learned About Them in 2 |
I'm sure we've been through this over the years, but the first album was
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Edgy MD Nov 17 2017 02:33 PM Re: Things You Didn't Know Until You Learned About Them in 2 |
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That Partridge funk song is dangerously sexy. I don't know that I could shout
... while my mom is singing backup. It kind of sounds like funk-era Temptations. And good funk-era Temptations, too. The last year or two, the music selections actually got somewhat better, with them paying a little more, and going beyond their house composer (Tony Romeo) and getting Goffin & King and Wes Ferrell & Tony Asher songs, including songs ("I'm into Something Good," "Oh, No, Not My Baby"), that had already been hits for other folks. I don't think these make it on to the albums, so you have a point there. The Partridge Family, fake act though they may have been, released eight studio albums. That's more than the Eagles!
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d'Kong76 Nov 17 2017 02:44 PM Re: Things You Didn't Know Until You Learned About Them in 2 |
I was going to say something a tad off color last night about Shirley in
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d'Kong76 Nov 18 2017 09:29 PM Re: Things You Didn't Know Until You Learned About Them in 2 |
Cassidy Critically Not Doing Well - Yahoo
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cooby Nov 18 2017 10:02 PM Re: Things You Didn't Know Until You Learned About Them in 2 |
this is so sad. I read last summer that he has Alzheimers (sp) but this is really worse
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cooby Nov 18 2017 10:07 PM Re: Things You Didn't Know Until You Learned About Them in 2 |
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Edgy you had this album? :D There's a song on there "Brand New Me" that had two of my cousins collapse in giggles at the chorus but when I asked one of them recently what was so funny, she didn't recall. Any ideas? (it was the "feet are on the ground" part. I know I'm naive, but so were they....) (And btw how old WERE you in 1970 or whatever?)
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Ashie62 Nov 18 2017 10:11 PM Re: Things You Didn't Know Until You Learned About Them in 2 |
"I woke up in love this morning!"
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Edgy MD Nov 19 2017 01:34 AM Re: Things You Didn't Know Until You Learned About Them in 2 |
I don't know what your cousins were laughing about, Cooby, but "Brand New Me" is a good-assed song. In season one, they sang it in an episode where the whole family got skunked. They couldn't miss their show at the children's hospital so they got themselves cleaned up in clothes they borrowed from around the hotel. Shirley ended up in the sexy cigarette girl's clothes, because of course she did.
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41Forever Nov 19 2017 02:28 AM Re: Things You Didn't Know Until You Learned About Them in 2 |
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This one has some good songs on it, too! Got it for my birthday one year.
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Frayed Knot Nov 19 2017 02:38 AM Re: Things You Didn't Know Until You Learned About Them in 2 Edited 2 time(s), most recently on Nov 19 2017 11:57 AM |
Sentences I never thought I'd type on the Crane Pool Forum: This here Partridge Family discussion now warrants a split off into its own thread
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d'Kong76 Nov 19 2017 02:47 AM Re: Things You Didn't Know Until You Learned About Them in 2 |
And it came with a free book cover!
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d'Kong76 Nov 19 2017 02:48 AM Re: Things You Didn't Know Until You Learned About Them in 2 |
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Lol
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cooby Nov 19 2017 03:13 AM Re: Things You Didn't Know Until You Learned About Them in 2 |
Lots of razzing by my older brother and (esp) sister about David Cassidy though really I liked Danny, but eventually I realized what a lovely voice David had (Cherish) I wish him well
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Edgy MD Nov 19 2017 04:37 AM Re: Happy Together: A Partridge Pilgrimage (split) |
I got no shame. Me gusta los Partridges. I was into any and all musical TV shows. But their songs, beyond Cassidy's breathy delivery, were high-end stuff that held up even as I grew older and developed what I fancied were sophisticated, counter-cultural tastes. To later find out that The Wrecking was all over it, that this poor little kid actor/non-drummer was miming parts laid down by the great Hal Blaine is pretty hilarious when you think about it.
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cooby Nov 19 2017 06:04 AM Re: Happy Together: A Partridge Pilgrimage (split) |
Partridges and Bradys.. both totally awesome.
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cooby Nov 19 2017 06:08 AM Re: Things You Didn't Know Until You Learned About Them in 2 |
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Enjoyed. Thank you :)
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MFS62 Nov 19 2017 02:37 PM Re: Happy Together: A Partridge Pilgrimage (split) |
I never really watched the show. But I can see why some folks might have.
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Edgy MD Nov 19 2017 03:44 PM Re: Happy Together: A Partridge Pilgrimage (split) |
In the awful 1999 ABC TV film Come on, Get Happy, there's a completely fictitious scene in which Partridges climb into the music mobile and ride on over to the Paramount lot to throw down with the Bradys. It never happened, but if awards were given for the campy ridiculousness, the scene would take the gold medal.
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cooby Nov 20 2017 01:44 AM Re: Happy Together: A Partridge Pilgrimage (split) |
Haha, that's good
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41Forever Nov 20 2017 02:02 AM Re: Happy Together: A Partridge Pilgrimage (split) |
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Edgy MD Nov 20 2017 03:49 AM Re: Happy Together: A Partridge Pilgrimage (split) |
¡Mi Casa Es Su Casa!
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d'Kong76 Nov 22 2017 02:38 PM Re: Happy Together: A Partridge Pilgrimage (split) |
[youtube:3a7d7p14]CIDDEIWhuRU[/youtube:3a7d7p14]
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Edgy MD Nov 22 2017 02:43 PM Re: Happy Together: A Partridge Pilgrimage (split) |
I don't know what I'm up against. I don't know what it's all about. I got so much to think about.
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John Cougar Lunchbucket Nov 22 2017 03:40 PM Re: Happy Together: A Partridge Pilgrimage (split) |
2:19 of that video: The very same shot when Dennis Eton-Hogg appears behind Janine in SPINAL TAP.
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Edgy MD Nov 22 2017 03:56 PM Re: Happy Together: A Partridge Pilgrimage (split) |
Yeah, all the kids in San Pueblo were hanging out at the taco stand. And then they'd go to "the point" and make out with their taco breath.
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41Forever Nov 22 2017 04:24 PM Re: Happy Together: A Partridge Pilgrimage (split) |
My top 5 Partridge Family songs! They really did have some good stuff.
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Vic Sage Nov 22 2017 04:49 PM Re: Happy Together: A Partridge Pilgrimage (split) |
they were no MONKEES, but they were a'ight.
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cooby Nov 22 2017 06:53 PM Re: Happy Together: A Partridge Pilgrimage (split) |
Yep the Partridge Family did have some surprisingly good music (as did the Cowsills). RIP David/Keith. You were a vision to behold
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Frayed Knot Nov 22 2017 08:01 PM Re: Happy Together: A Partridge Pilgrimage (split) |
I think I left you ...
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G-Fafif Nov 23 2017 12:07 AM Re: Happy Together: A Partridge Pilgrimage (split) |
The Partridge Family deserved its MAD magazine treatment as The Putrid Family -- my favorite aspect of which was Shirley dressed in a New York Football Giants uniform, complete with eyeblack, explaining to Reuben that she had to be both mother and father to these kids -- but I appreciated its existence in real time. I liked that there were kids dressing mod, as my mother would put it, singing real pop tunes. I liked the non-traditional lifestyle that involved tours and buses and whatever happened to Mr. Partridge anyway? I liked the sneaky wit that occasionally infiltrated the dialogue (Danny quoted Barry Goldwater in one episode). I liked trying to figure out what a family act that included two children of single-digit age was doing packing nightclubs full of adults. And I fucking loved David Cassidy's hair, which mine was never going to be like but I didn't give up brushing it aspirationally, consciously or otherwise, for decades. David/Keith taught me the logistics of singing into a microphone, albeit a pretend one for me (which is OK, since he was lip-syncing). To this day I sing into anything that will fit inside my fist or, failing that, my fist itself.
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G-Fafif Nov 23 2017 12:13 AM Re: Happy Together: A Partridge Pilgrimage (split) |
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Jesus, TPF was my introduction to tacos, too. And I never had a taco until junior high Spanish, either (7th grade; I must have been advanced). It was at the height of the "making them!/eating them!" taco consciousness-raising ad campaign, brought to you by Ortega. A trip to California demystified the whole taco thing somewhat. Taco Bell didn't arrive in the general vicinity of where I was until the late '70s. First trip to the one in Oceanside was disappointing.
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cooby Nov 23 2017 12:59 AM Re: Happy Together: A Partridge Pilgrimage (split) |
Omg me too! Danny wanted them for supper one time and I thought they must be really something! Love them now!
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cooby Nov 23 2017 12:59 AM Re: Happy Together: A Partridge Pilgrimage (split) |
Omg me too! Danny wanted them for supper one time and I thought they must be really something! Love them now!
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John Cougar Lunchbucket Nov 23 2017 01:03 AM Re: Happy Together: A Partridge Pilgrimage (split) |
That is funny. I remember my first Taco Bell experience as well -- as it was also the first day I kissed a girl, but that's another story.
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cooby Nov 23 2017 01:23 AM Re: Happy Together: A Partridge Pilgrimage (split) |
Awful: this topic started just a couple of weeks ago and David Cassidy wasn't even in the hospital
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Edgy MD Nov 23 2017 01:25 AM Re: Happy Together: A Partridge Pilgrimage (split) |
A grossly disproportionate part of my brain is devoted to TPF facts, and here's one: After the production, the bus was put on display at ... a taco stand! Lucy's Tacos on Martin Luther King Blvd, right by USC, had it for years, and it's probably a good guess that this was the taco stand on the show.
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cooby Nov 23 2017 01:28 AM Re: Happy Together: A Partridge Pilgrimage (split) |
Lol
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G-Fafif Nov 23 2017 01:38 AM Re: Happy Together: A Partridge Pilgrimage (split) |
The day after my first visit to Taco Bell, the U.S. embassy in Iran was overrun and hostages were taken.
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Edgy MD Nov 23 2017 02:19 AM Re: Happy Together: A Partridge Pilgrimage (split) |
Long Beach had the classic mission-style Taco Bell with the real bell, God bless them.
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John Cougar Lunchbucket Nov 23 2017 03:05 AM Re: Happy Together: A Partridge Pilgrimage (split) |
I looked up my first Taco Bell, but it closed recently. Larkfield road next to Larkfield Lanes. Summer of 1980 I think.
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Fman99 Nov 23 2017 03:18 AM Re: Happy Together: A Partridge Pilgrimage (split) |
I don't know if this is a generational thing, but TPF was never in regular rerun syndication on any channel in my house as a kid, and so I don't really have any opinion on this show, cast or topic.
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batmagadanleadoff Nov 23 2017 05:01 AM Re: Happy Together: A Partridge Pilgrimage (split) |
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G-Fafif Nov 23 2017 07:04 PM Re: Happy Together: A Partridge Pilgrimage (split) |
The Batmags archives comes through again. I could swear Shirley was in a Giants uniform. Thanks for sharing!
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Edgy MD Nov 23 2017 08:33 PM Re: Happy Together: A Partridge Pilgrimage (split) |
Happy Thanksgiving Together.
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d'Kong76 Nov 24 2017 11:36 PM Re: Happy Together: A Partridge Pilgrimage (split) |
My father’s last words were 'So much wasted time.' - Katie Cassidy
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d'Kong76 Nov 27 2017 07:32 PM Re: Happy Together: A Partridge Pilgrimage (split) |
Doesn't take long, fb friend posted this with the caption 'is it too soon?'
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cooby Nov 27 2017 08:54 PM Re: Happy Together: A Partridge Pilgrimage (split) |
They forgot the littlest Partridge has also died
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Frayed Knot Nov 27 2017 09:00 PM Re: Happy Together: A Partridge Pilgrimage (split) |
[fimg=200:1lhvuk7b]http://www.kcmets.com/CPF/partridge.jpg[/fimg:1lhvuk7b]
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Edgy MD Nov 27 2017 09:02 PM Re: Happy Together: A Partridge Pilgrimage (split) |
I'm not seeing the image.
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dgwphotography Nov 27 2017 09:21 PM Re: Happy Together: A Partridge Pilgrimage (split) |
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*wipes down monitor after performing spit-take that would have made Danny Thomas proud*
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John Cougar Lunchbucket Nov 27 2017 09:53 PM Re: Happy Together: A Partridge Pilgrimage (split) |
That MAD parody was awesome, definitely read that issue. The panel I remembered was the giant tub of acne cream.
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d'Kong76 Nov 28 2017 11:29 AM Re: Happy Together: A Partridge Pilgrimage (split) |
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Tracy (Suzanne Crough) passed away in 2015 (52)
Hysterically clever, I wish I thought of it.
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cooby Nov 28 2017 05:13 PM Partridge frag |
He had such pretty shiny hair
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batmagadanleadoff Nov 28 2017 06:43 PM Re: Come On, Get Happy: A Partridge Pilgrimage (split) |
41F wants to know if this thread belongs in the 70s TV thread. This is not a Red Light Post. Unless I write it, I suppose.
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