Partridge Family - Notebook
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Artist: Partridge FamilyEdition: Music CD
Format: Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2000-08-08
Music Label: Buddha
Soundtracks:
- Friend and a Lover
- Walking in the Rain
- Take Good Care of Her
- Together We're Better
- Looking Through the Eyes of Love
- Maybe Someday
- We Gotta Get Out of This Place
- Storybook Love
- Love Must Be the Answer
- Something's Wrong
- As Long as You're Here
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Free Music Review: Go Back To School With The Partridge Family!
Hit: 5 Stars
Released in the Fall of 1972 (November) shortly after their teenybopper audience was returning to school, the sixth commercial production received much less fanfare. It has been reasoned that the success of previous LPs was the strength of the impulse-buying power of the Family's pictures on the cover of the albums. Unfortunately, art designer Beverly Weinstein's absence of any pictures on this cover of the US version was not a great selling point. The UK version had a great family snapshot layered over the notebook paper cover and sold curiously stronger there. Maybe this was a point, looking back, that is well taken.The cover did resemble a stack of notebook paper with an actual die-cut cover resembling hole punched paper! Buddha/Arista's CD release used the UK LP cover version for their artwork so one must wonder if they agreed with that assessment. This release will always be one of my personal favorites. The first song "Friend And A Lover" has a rockin' guitar intro and great riffs throughout infused with the tight background harmonies that fans had grown to expect along with a more rockin' David vocal. The LP sessions for this LP were extensive and let enough material to spawn another whole LP ("Crossword Puzzle" was thrown together from leftovers from "Notebook")As the popularity of the Family began to wane, producers and Wes Farrell scrambled for selling points for the music and the show and the third season had the Partridges singing many covers of old hits. Some of these great covers made it to this LP and remain unquestionably some of the best versions. Such covers are "Walking In The Rain"(formerly by the Ronettes and Jay & The Americans),"Looking Through The Eyes Of Love" (formerly by Gene Pitney) and "We Gotta Get Out Of This Place" (by the Animals). All of these tracks are better or equal to the originals and very nicely sung and produced. They were liberally borrowed from the Arista stable of hits in a hope of resurrecting the fame the family experienced in 1970.Sadly, many of us Partridge fanatics are still praying that Arista will see fit to release many of the Partridge library of hits that never made it to vinyl such as "Cryin' In The Rain", "Workin' On A Groovy Thing" and I'm Into Something Good" only to name a few covers, there are many more Partridge gems gathering mold in the Arista vaults. A few great ballads "Take Good Care Of Her" and "Something's Wrong"
speak of love and loss and show a maturing format. Fan favorites "Together We're Better" and "Maybe Someday" are here also and have an energy that the Family was known for.The peppy "Storybook Love" with it's harpsicord melody is a bit cutesy for this collection but grounds it back into its bubblegum roots. The lively guitar strumming of "Love Must Be The Answer" livens up the mood with a betcha-can't-stay-still momentum that's infectious. My personal favorite in this mix is "As Long As You're There" which rounds out the CD with a sad song of loss with a curiously energetic beat! I cannot help but love this LP with its valiant attempt to grow with its audience. Sad, but very true, the Partridges were fated for cancellation just a year later but the music was evolving into a more mature and cultured sound that I began to love more and more. This LP was the pivotal approach to that growth. I feel this is a definite MUST HAVE addition to any Partridge or 70s collection! A++++++
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