My sister was their biggest fan, she met them and got autographs at the Ohio State Fair in the mid seventies twice. She was in a wheelchair her whole life and died in 1978. Every time I hear the Cowsill's I think of the smile on her face after meeting such wonderful people. Thank you Cowsill's for giving her and our family such a wonderful memory!

The Rain the Park and Other Things takes me right back, probably one of the top pop songs ever.

@terrythekittieful

4 жыл бұрын

It's excellent pop music and I'm a rock man, first and foremost. It's very optimistic, in the vein of 'Penny Lane'.

I had the opportunity to meet them in 2019. They are still amazing musicians. They were also extremely nice people. Paul stayed behind while Susan and Bob went to get ready for their show and talked to me for about 10 minutes. He talked like we were old friends. Fantastic experience.

@usmc-veteran73-77

3 жыл бұрын

Wow, amazing. He has always seemed down to earth.

@lizadivine3785

2 жыл бұрын

I met them a few years ago and agree with you completely. Wonderful, nice, and very talented people!

@middleagelimbo3630

Жыл бұрын

Awesome! I could always tell what genuinely great people they are. Also some of the best musicians the industry ever had to offer. I'm thankful they still perform today.

@dreamerjazz352

Ай бұрын

I just met Susan Cowsill! I went skateboarding after the Happy Together show and saw someone riding bike and I had a feeling it could've been her and it was! It was very brief, I told her it was an honor to meet her. She was so cool and sweet and gave me a big warm hug. I got a little shy and didn't think about getting an autograph or anything, but the hug really made me happy!

@MichaelDBauer

Ай бұрын

@@dreamerjazz352 Love it. They are very nice people.

I find this family very endearing and it's great they're still singing together.

I’ve always loved that “Flower girl “ song. It was so innocent, joyful and bright. So good to see this interview they did with Mike.

1967, I was 12 yrs old. I absolutely loved the song"We Can Fly". I couldn't believe that I recently heard it only made it to#24 on the chart. Although only on vinyl, The Cowsill family spent the most memorable time of my youth with me. Their music , in a sense, Takes Me Home! Takes me back to a day in time I wish I could revisit! Much love to all of you! ❤️🙏

Very talented family, I used to love to see Susan play the tambourine sing and do her skate dance.

@gailwood4214

Жыл бұрын

Girl could move and groove on that stage! 😂Love their sound, great harmonies.

I'm family an my name is Donna Cowsill from New Zealand. I've just started singing Country Gospel, with 3 guys. I'm new at it an I love it. I all the songs the Cowsills sing, I'm very proud of you. Xx

I have to tell you that they were one of the best bands in the sixties and seventies. I listened to them all the time and when I found out they were on Huckabee I had to find this. Susan has one of the greatest voices in music I believe and she seems so sweet. Hopefully one day I will get to meet them at a concert, chat, and get an autograph. I will be watching out for you guys the next time on Huckabee!

This was the first band I loved as a preteen, had their albums & posters on the walls. Love their music; still listening!♥️

Bob Cowsill was and maybe he still is a musical force in the west San Fernando Valley. He has a casual guy next door way with music that is easy to like.

They are outstanding people. And I love them all!

Loved them ! ! ! ! Great seeing them and listening to them.

Loving their music....so glad they are standing strong and still making music!

Saw them at Tarrytown's Music Hall in NY during their Happy Together Tour in 2017 & was blown away by their tight harmonies & spirited energy. I've loved them since the 60's ❤

I've been a music junkie since I saw the Beatles on Ed Sullivan in 1964 as a kid. I'm also an amateur musician. The Beatles have always been number one for me but "The Rain, The Park and Other Things" has always been an unbelievably special song for me. (I hesitate to give it some sort of ranking but if I did it would easily make my top five of all time.) I have never heard it when it didn't instantly lift my spirits and I have never walked away from listening to it before it was finished. I have always linked it somehow with "Penny Lane". Both songs draw you in to an almost cinematic experience. You imagine yourself in the scenarios that each song paints for the listener. Even the colors of the scenes are similar in my minds eye which has always fascinated me. It wasn't too many years ago that I sat down and figured out the chord progressions for each song on guitar and although they aren't the same, they are remarkably similar. The melodies are obviously different but I've always thought that these two pieces go together in some way and that each is as good as the other. I wonder if any professional musicians out there who know both songs can comment on this.

@hehhehhuhhuh7014

4 жыл бұрын

mrfester42: To start with, they are both in the exact same key of B major (although Penny Lane goes into A major on the chorus. (I have perfect pitch) As you said, the melodies are obviously different. I actually didn't find the chord progressions all that similar, but I may have to listen again. What I DID find similar was the BEAT!! Thump thump thump without a prominent drum hit on 2 and 4. Kinda reminds me of 'Wild Montana Skies' by John Denver and Emmylou Harris.

two years later i'm still waiting for the Cowsill's to be back on Huck, one of my favorite songs back in the day and still today is the Flower Girl . all those super groups back in the day long gone but the underrated Cowsill's are still jamming out tunes .

Still love this band!

@3John-Bishop

4 жыл бұрын

Mother dead?

@sharonramone7186

4 жыл бұрын

@@3John-Bishop Yes. Barbara passed in '84 or 85

@hehhehhuhhuh7014

4 жыл бұрын

@@sharonramone7186 85

@luciledevries478

3 жыл бұрын

Love them Great memories💕

I have their music on my phone and still listen to it..

I see that all three are wallflowers! LOL. Siblings true to form--each trying to get a word in edgewise. I've always enjoyed these guys. I'm pretty sure their version of 'Hair' was one of the first 45s I purchased. This was well before I discovered Led Zeppelin. Keep on rockin' Cowsills!

@hehhehhuhhuh7014

4 жыл бұрын

Stephen Lennartz: Yeah, I can't believe this is the same band that I fell in love with when I was 10 years old, and now I'm nearing 63!!!

Such a sweet lovely cute song of a time gone by ...🙂🕺

Great group! Great songs!

I knew their music, and hearing the name but it never hit home. Now it has. Don't know how I missed them. WOW. Watching them on YT has developed a new fan.

So many covers of Hair songs! And the Cowsills version of Hair was indeed better than the original cast Broadway version.

So Wonderful and real they are ❤️

I love these guys!! 💕💕💕💕💕

Wish they had talked about John and Barry. I know Barry died in New Orleans with the flooding which was sad. I also still have a scrapbook of Bob's wedding pictures from magazines like Tiger Beat and such. Good Memories.

OMG ..they sound even better now than in 1967!! That song was EVERYWHERE... totally iconic. Love them! 🤗❤️❤️❤️🌼🌻🏵️💮🌸

These guys need to tour with Mickey Dolenz and be the The Cows and the Monkee.

Loved Hair and ty he band God Bless them 😎 I had the big long hair then fun times .

Awesome group.

Such an amazing family.

Now that the Cowsills' album is out, I don't know... Will you guys be inviting them back? We would love to see it!!

Yo canté esas canciones 👏👏👏

The "video" (or whatever they called them back then) for Hair was pretty wild for its day.

@mrfester42

4 жыл бұрын

It was called a "promo" or promotional film.

I wish I could see them perform.

Thank you Governor for having the Cowsills on your show.

Bought Their Album When Released In 1967 & I Still Know Every Single Word Of Every Single Song..So After 56 Years I Think It's Safe To Say That I Got My Money's Worth Out Of That Album.

Thumbs down to the thumbs downers.

@iVenge

4 жыл бұрын

Lionheart Roar I think people are thinking politically rather than musically. They do not share Mr. Huckabee’s politics. Neither do I. It’s a credit to them that they appeared.

@hehhehhuhhuh7014

4 жыл бұрын

@@iVenge Yes, in THAT respect, I agree. His politics suck. And of course his daughter Sarah was THE #45 defender for awhile.

@grandyabbo

3 жыл бұрын

@@hehhehhuhhuh7014 Oh yes, now we have "the thief in chief" dementia joe with his raggedy ann "I will circle back on that" swamp creatures.

@hehhehhuhhuh7014

3 жыл бұрын

@@grandyabbo truck fump

Emotional 😭. I was 8years old in 1967.

Huckabee ROCKS the bass man! You rule sir!

Huckabee’s are as just as cool as The Cowsills!

50+ year fan, I'll be buying the New Album! Errr.....Disc!

My cousin Joann invited them to her birthday party at that time they wrote fan letters They answered back they were coming Everytime the doorbell rang we were screaming that it was them

Knew The Cowsills & Their Music Well,, Before The Partridge Family Was Even A Thing & I Can Tell You That I Am Sooo Glad They Chose Not To Do It.

A great family problems and all just like all of us. Very talented.

Glorious SUSAN, born in O H I O ! GO BUCKEYES!

Let's Talk about Bud Cowsill and How he beat his Sons.

For Bob, Barry and Barbara. John lives in LA, married to the Bangles' Vicki Peterson, and drums for the Beach Boys.

I have been in love with Susan for years, but alas, she does not even know I exist.

@reganapparel

4 жыл бұрын

It’s a big club.

@godsavenger5599

4 жыл бұрын

I love her as well.

@hehhehhuhhuh7014

4 жыл бұрын

William: Oh me too! She is just toooooo adorable!!!! I have no doubt the line of men wanting to date her is 800 zillion miles long!!!!! I can't believe she is 61, she looks half that!!

@jasonjames4254

3 жыл бұрын

LOL! Pubescent wood dies hard!

I had hair by the Cowsills on 45

I attended the same high school as the Cowsills did in Rhode Island. I remember when students starting talking about how the Cowsill family band was going to be on The Ed Sullivan Show. If I recall correctly, after they were on that show, we never saw them again.

@keithlauderjr1691

2 жыл бұрын

Middletown High? I was RHS 74'. ( ;;

@broyomama

2 жыл бұрын

@@keithlauderjr1691 At that time, I was in 7th and 8th grades..........then moved to D.C. (my father was in the Navy).

Susan is still quite attractive 💥

Funny 😄 family.

Them being on this show is a little surprising to me, because I figured them to be more on the left side of the fence.

One of the family was lost in Catrina hurricane, his skelital body was found weeks later.

@tats5880

4 жыл бұрын

Billy, the lead singer died the day before berry memorial service, berry was the one that died in Katrina. the sad part was he chose to stay behind, and from what I read and seen on a t.v interview he was going too hide out in a cave...

@hehhehhuhhuh7014

4 жыл бұрын

@@tats5880 Just too sad. I live in Key West. Even here, there are some places to escape excessive flooding (we are at sea level, but some parts of our island are at 18 feet above sea level). But New Orleans is BELOW sea level from what I understand. Nowhere to run, nowhere to hide.

@1401minstrel

Жыл бұрын

Barry, yes. I believe he was homeless at the time, and had a serious alcohol and drug addiction. Susan also lived in New Orleans then. She and her husband were able to evacuate and did so. When they eventually returned they found desperate messages from Barry on their answering machine, but it was too late. He was already gone. Such a tragic story.

Liked them when I was little, but never had a single record of theirs

Red Sox Nation is proud.

@keithlauderjr1691

2 жыл бұрын

Grew up in Newport Michael, same time period. Blocks away from them. Go SOX!

I did not know this. In the 60's we did not get info about bands. Only American Bandstand for most of my generation. Magazines were expensive and my family could not afford them.

@beachdiva9586

8 ай бұрын

@debrablackwell9152 Same. I'm amazed with all I've learned about Cowsills recently after a video of Susan singing "To Sir With Love" appeared on my YT feed. The last I had heard of the band was when "Hair" came out while I was in high school.

Susan is so pretty!

The Cowsills and their mother Barbra should have all been on the TV show "The Partridge Family" instead of the cast that ended up on the show.

I remember the title Bob :)

When are they gonna be on the Rudy Giuliani show?

THE question: Ok, so they didn't want the mom & sons to appear in front of the camera... so WHY didn't they accept the role of doing the AUDIO for the lipsync'd songs?! Huckabee did not ask the most obvious follow up question.

Wished they would’ve talked about other family members too. Why isn’t John with them?

@terrythekittieful

4 жыл бұрын

One brother died as a result of Hurrican Katrina, a year or two later another brother died and their mum died years ago (from Cancer?). Very sad.

@greeterbb

4 жыл бұрын

For John is right now playing his Drums with The Beach Boys .

BOB if you ask for a smaller title can call ''''''the girl in the rain ''''''or THE RAIN GIRL'''''but I thing is to late now lol it is top song and top performance ...

Have them back!!!!

I have never heard of this band, did they have any UK hits in the 60s

Ummmm... only 3 Cowsills. Still interesting even though there are several more siblings, plus the mom. PS. It’s pretty phenomenal that this band did HAIR! Who knew? 🤷‍♀️👏👏👏

@1401minstrel

Жыл бұрын

Barbara died in the mid 1980s, Barry died in 2005 and Bill died in 2006. Their father and manager, Bud, died in 1992. Richard (not a member of the band) died in 2014. John is thankfully still with us but at that time he was touring with the Beach Boys. He and the Beach Boys have recently parted ways, though. It would be great if he'd join up with his brothers and sister again!

@1401minstrel

Жыл бұрын

I knew they did Hair! It was one of their biggest hits. And yes, I am their age.

Susan is still the the dancer that Axle Rose copied.

Is this the Huckabe who ran for office 2008?

@usmc-veteran73-77

2 ай бұрын

Yes.

New album? Let see by the singles from 2018 - 2020 we got 1. Hair - a Cappella 2. The Rain, The Park And other Things - a Cappella So we know 2 songs of the 20 songs on the album

His daughter should join the group.......

If only those four police officers who were slain in the café in Lakewood, Washington could still listen to the Cowsills, this world would be a better place. Thanks for pardoning their murderer, Mike. Way to go. Like they said, he was a model prisoner. So yeah, why take into consideration his violent criminal record? Do you ever even think about what you caused? Sleep well tonight. I’m sure you do. The families of those officers don’t.

Susan has a loud mouth, and when she wanted to speak, she interrupts, and when her brothers are talking when she wants to say something, she's like "Ugh!". I'm sorry to say this, but she's a rude lady.

@gwendolynkaren5933

3 жыл бұрын

It's true. The brothers never wanted her along and continue to resent her. She continues to fight for her "due" She's a little crass lol

@ralphey8189

Жыл бұрын

You both are wrong!! It's part of their family persona!!

@1401minstrel

Жыл бұрын

Kind of a double standard here. All of the Cowsills talk over one another, yet she gets singled out. I think it's primarily because she's a woman. When men do that, they're assertive. When women do that, they're rude and crass.

@68corvette08

Ай бұрын

@@1401minstrel That's a very chauvinist remark.

Hard to imagine Susan, as Tracy Partridge.

Poor woman, couldnt get a word in...

Mike! You are a great bass player

Paul is still a hottie.❤

Terrific make up!

Mike! We need a great bass player in the Whitehouse!

is only three there...I know 2 died where is jhon

@1401minstrel

Жыл бұрын

Touring with the Beach Boys at the time.

yanks ,dont give the sloth any credit.

Interviewer looks like Nixon

@DaveGringo

4 жыл бұрын

There is a reason for that! LoL...

@joyfull5374

4 жыл бұрын

Justin Ainsworth no neck.

@hehhehhuhhuh7014

4 жыл бұрын

@@DaveGringo LOL yep. Same politics! I AM NOT A CROOK!

Mike Huckabee is such a nice guy

@hehhehhuhhuh7014

4 жыл бұрын

James Short: IMO his politics suck, but I appreciate him for loving great music and great musicians and putting them on his show, AND playing bass with them. Mike does play a mean bass!! The music world desperately needs more of the Cowsills and less of Justin Bieber ....or Beiber..whatever! LOL!

Disappointed that they would appear on his show but I still love them 👍🏻

@woody5551

2 жыл бұрын

Me too. What a huckster this guy is, IMO

@ralphey8189

Жыл бұрын

Lefties are such whiners.

Too bad that their dad and the dads of other wildly popular 60’s music groups such as the Beach Boys, Jackson 5, and Osmonds were abusive and overbearing.

covid schmovid

Disappointing to see them on this guy’s show.

@1401minstrel

Жыл бұрын

Very

I only watched and liked this video because I'm a fan of the Cowsills. I do not like or endorse Mike Huckabee. I'm sorry they couldn't find another show to be on.

@ralphey8189

Жыл бұрын

Grow up lefty!

@jackierichardson2070

Жыл бұрын

@@ralphey8189 grow up Ralphy. I'm not the one with the child's name RALPHEY. Don't be a hater.

@ralphey8189

Жыл бұрын

The one hating on Huckabee is telling me to not be a hater?? Lol Lefties make no sense....ever!

@jackierichardson2070

Жыл бұрын

@@ralphey8189 neither do you!🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

@jackierichardson2070

Жыл бұрын

@@ralphey8189 I said I don't like Huckabee. I didn't say I hatred him.

They went on Republican Mike Huckabee' show.....time to CANCEL The Cowsills!

@delboyinoz1

3 жыл бұрын

That’s the mentality these days sadly.

@ralphey8189

Жыл бұрын

That's the brainless left's response. They talked zero politics and zero controversy and the whacko lefties are losing their minds...what little they have left. Lefties are more entertaining than going to the zoo.