> CP wrote --
>> - the Partridge family didn't even play themselves -- they were not
> musicians.
> Shirley Jones, who played the mother, was a Broadway and movie singer.
> Married at one time to Jack Cassidy, (David's father) who was also a
> Broadway and movie singer.
> I think David recorded a few songs on his his.

Yup, I read the same - the group, per se, did not create & record together --  Shirley would sing with a taped recording of another band's music, while the  guys played air instruments.

>> Whoever was behind the sound -- it's a fun listen when I'm the mood for '70s
> bubble-gum music!
> I was into bubble-gum and disco.  Never cared for heavy metal.  It was
> all noise to me.

I like both, depending on mood -- & it has to have quality to it -- I want  musicians who work well together and have asolid understanding of the  harmonious interplay of sound that defines "music"

I like Deep Purple, becayuse they are all classcal/symphony musicians (they  even wrote a symphony they performed, with the London Philharmonic Orchestra)

I liked others, like Blacjk Sabbath,. for the nice interplay of instruments,  but also fort the powerful & deep lyrics Ozzy wrote.

My favourite anti-war song is "War Pigs' by Black Sabbath."

I like 1970s country, too! On accuradio I can mix my favourite sub-gemnres  together to create one nearly perfect statio -- I can even mix in some comedy,  too, for variety. . . (I love when Bob Newhart does one of his talking stories, like the ad exec trying to create an "Abraham Lincoln" that'll stand the test  of time, in spite of Abe's objecftions to some of the silliness, like having to write his speeches on the backs of envelopes, & giving him a General Grant's  detractors squelch (buy him his favourite brand & ship it to him))

/G

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