Back in the day (1967), before the Partridge Family, before the Osmonds, before the Jackson 5, there was a family group called the Cowsills. There were 4 guys and a girl, she being the youngest. I think they made one album (which I had) and then they were gone. I LOVED their music, playing their album until it finally cracked. Actually my bed rolled over it, but same difference - I wasn't through listening.
There was also a television program called Operation: Entertainment that traveled around the country to army bases entertaining the troops before they headed out to Vietnam. We lived in Augusta, GA at the time and what to my wonderment, but the television show was going to be filming at our local army base (Fort Gordon). And also, who was the big group going to perform - The Cowsills! I can remember wanting to go so badly, but of course my mother wasn't going to pull me out of school, nor take me in the middle of a bunch of army guys (who were, in reality, not much older than me). I missed my one and only chance to see them live.
Until tonight. Susan Cowsill has her own band and travels around singing her own music. Norman has a Summer Breeze concert series that comes to our Lions Park and it's free. I've been planning to go since it was announced this spring. She lives in New Orleans now so a lot of her music sounds a little cajun with a fiddle and all. Granted it's almost 45 years later, but I loved it. I went by myself. Joe was at home painting our bedroom.
I've also started a new knitting project. I'm making a purple/pink triangular shawl. I started it today when I went to my prayer shawl circle meeting. We were told that our "stock" was getting low. We only have 20 shawls in the cabinet so get cracking and make some more!
Oh, and the last song Susan Cowsill did was my favorite one from the album I had. It's called "The Rain, The Park, and Other Things." I filmed a short clip. Everyone in the audience knew the words. I'd say the average age in the crowd was probably 56 (my age)!
There was also a television program called Operation: Entertainment that traveled around the country to army bases entertaining the troops before they headed out to Vietnam. We lived in Augusta, GA at the time and what to my wonderment, but the television show was going to be filming at our local army base (Fort Gordon). And also, who was the big group going to perform - The Cowsills! I can remember wanting to go so badly, but of course my mother wasn't going to pull me out of school, nor take me in the middle of a bunch of army guys (who were, in reality, not much older than me). I missed my one and only chance to see them live.
Until tonight. Susan Cowsill has her own band and travels around singing her own music. Norman has a Summer Breeze concert series that comes to our Lions Park and it's free. I've been planning to go since it was announced this spring. She lives in New Orleans now so a lot of her music sounds a little cajun with a fiddle and all. Granted it's almost 45 years later, but I loved it. I went by myself. Joe was at home painting our bedroom. 
I've also started a new knitting project. I'm making a purple/pink triangular shawl. I started it today when I went to my prayer shawl circle meeting. We were told that our "stock" was getting low. We only have 20 shawls in the cabinet so get cracking and make some more!
Oh, and the last song Susan Cowsill did was my favorite one from the album I had. It's called "The Rain, The Park, and Other Things." I filmed a short clip. Everyone in the audience knew the words. I'd say the average age in the crowd was probably 56 (my age)!
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