The Cowsills

You can go to techish.com. You can also listen to Jen Jolly's podcast at wgnradio.com. Coming up after Schwanney's 1130 News, we are going to talk to John Kausel.

He is from the family band The Cowsills, the inspiration for the Partridge family.

He's now the front man for the Smithereens, who will be in town at the Park West coming up in November.

Oh, it is November.

He's a busy, busy guy.

He is now singing with the Smithereens, who will be at the Park West, and I don't know, maybe with the time change.

He has – I don't want to, like, blow all my material without talking to him because you may remember the Cowsills.

Shawnee and I were talking about this before.

We were the band.

It had the Cowsills on it.

It had Leif Garrett on it.

I

love those guys.

I love the Cowsills.

This was around the time of Katrina is when this goes back.

Oh,

I saw her sitting in the rain Hi, we're the Cowsills.

I'm Paul.

I'm

Get back.

At number two, cousins, the Cowsills.

They stayed on the charts for ten solid weeks with hair.

By the way, they came from Broadway.

And a couple of years ago, we finally knuckled down and the idea is... that we wanted to record songs specifically and completely and only written by two of John's brothers, both of whom have departed this planet way too early.

They were both incredible songwriters and artists in their own right, in addition to being part of the Cowsills family band that had numerous hits in the 60s.

Both Bill and Barry Cowsill were incredible songwriters and had their own careers post-Cowsills.

But they're gone.

We adore them.

I did.

It was the Cowsills' least favorite hit.

It was, it was funny.

John.

But at the Troubadour-

Oh, that might be a different show, y'all.

No, but at the Troubadour we were The Cowsills.

I know this from Mammoth, okay? We were not a different name then.

At Joe Pamplemousse, 82322, Sparks, Kimono, My House album.

Then it was The Cars, Deep Tracks, and now rotating The Cowsills, Tommy Rowe.

Fun fact, Richie Scarlett loves Tommy Rowe.

The Hollies and Edison Lighthouse.

Well, it, it really was more of a homegrown, atypical house concert that I'm used to.

Um, the c- ones we've done with the Cowsills have been pretty highfalutin, I'm, I'm here to tell you.

Right.

And not like this wasn't-

... do come up and say, "Hey, we played with your brother and his wife two weeks ago." I'm going-

What?

... what world puts me in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where two people can come up and tell me that? The Cowsills are out rocking the country.

Either we're doing it, John's doing it.

What'd you think? I think I love you.

I think I'll, you know, before we go, I got to tell you, I was watching the Cowsills.

I never, Ben, remember the Cowsills? No.

At Indian Lake, you can, is the place you can make with your little one.

It was a family.

I

remember the Partridge family.

Well, the Cowsills were the group that the Partridge family was based on.