★★★★★
Released in 1971, by which point The Cowsills had exhausted their hit quota, On My Side was the group's attempt to join the ranks of those making "serious music". It's immediately obvious that they were assimilating and replicating the West Coast influences around them - especially the harmonic approach of CSNY - though there are questions to be asked of the distinctiveness and variety of The Cowsills' lead vocalists...
- www.recordcollectormag.com
2011-03-28
★★★★★
The Rain, The Park & Other Things proved a breakthrough hit for this family ensemble. With its perfect marriage of vocals, production and commercial song, it still stands out today as a sunshine pop peak. The material that immediately followed it, and which graced this album, also had those elements in place, though not necessarily all at the same time...
- www.recordcollectormag.com
2010-12-21
★★★★★
The Cowsills possessed one of the most pleasing vocal blends in all of popular music. In addition, they created without proper credit the blueprint for countless other singing family bands, including the TV-created Partridge Family, who were actually based on The Cowsills...
- www.forcedexposure.com
2010-08-27
★★★★★
The Cowsills are right up there with the Monkees as classiest of all the American teen groups. The Cowsills were an institution in the late sixties. This 23-track compilation comprises their significant hits, the best of their superb vocal psychedelia and the entire '11 x 11' acid concept album released digitally for the first time anywhere in the world. Hailing from Rhode Island, The Cowsills were the original 'Family of Pop' on whom the Partridge Family were based...
- www.forcedexposure.com
2010-08-27
★★★★★
"The Cowsills possessed one of the most pleasing vocal blends in all of popular music. In addition, they created without proper credit the blueprint for countless other singing family bands, including the TV-created Partridge Family, who were actually based on The Cowsills...
- www.forcedexposure.com
2009-05-18
★★★★★
"The Cowsills possessed one of the most pleasing vocal blends in all of popular music. In addition, they created without proper credit the blueprint for countless other singing family bands, including the TV-created Partridge Family, who were actually based on The Cowsills...
- www.forcedexposure.com
2009-05-18
★★★★★
In 1970, the Partridge Family, the made-for-TV family based on the real-life sibling pop group the Cowsills, were doing great, scoring big ratings with their recently launched television series and landing high in the charts with their debut album and the single "I Think I Love You...
- music.aol.com
2008-08-28
★★★★★
The Cowsills were the real world's Partridge Family. The talented Cowsills teens -- Bob, Bill, John, Barry, Paul, and Susan -- all siblings working along with their mother, Barbara, landed a number of hit songs during the '60s. Three decades later the renewed Cowsills, though smaller in number, began performing and recording music again. One of the group's later offerings is Global...
- music.aol.com
2008-08-28
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