The Best of the Cowsills: 20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection [Original recording remastered]

Cowsills | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 26, 2001)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Original recording remastered
• Label: Polydor / Umgd
• ASIN: B00005LNG7
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (26 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #49,448 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #72 in Music > Pop > Oldies > Bubblegum

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23 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Have a cow with the Cowsills!, July 5, 2001

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James E. Bagley "Jim Bagley" (Sanatoga, PA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Best of the Cowsills: 20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection (Audio CD)

A nice - if too brief - retrospective of everyone's favorite '60s singing family. Of course the usual suspects are here (The Rain, The Park, & Other Things, Indian Lake, We Can Fly, Hair). What makes it for me the best Cowsills set yet released is the inclusion of the stellar singles Silver Threads and Golden Needles and The Prophecy Of Daniel & John The Divine (you'll be chanting six-six-six for days!) plus the original version of the Love American Style tv theme. A pre-stardom Most Of All leads off the set and a great track from Bill Cowsill's solo debut When Everybody's Here concludes it. It's all groovy. Check it out!

21 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Heavenly,underrated pop group!, January 30, 2002

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Bob Ashley (texas) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Best of the Cowsills: 20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection (Audio CD)

Everybody knows "The rain,the park,and other things",but there's much more classic pop up their sleeves.Unfortunately,there are only 12 cuts on this CD.They should have a box set or something!What's here is cool,though.Their famous cover of "Hair" is here along with their "Love american style" theme will take many of us back.There are 3 tracks from their apocalyptic christian pop album(really!)that didn't help their career,but still fun to hear!This is a great CD,but I hope their albums will be re-released.

16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The best from the ORIGINAL family of pop, February 5, 2006

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Big Daddy Mick (Philadelphia, PA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Best of the Cowsills: 20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection (Audio CD)

Anyone who thinks the most-recognizable Cowsill song "The Rain,The Park, & Other Things" was just a "minor hit" either wasn't there in the day - or hasn't a clue what this family is all about. The Cowsills are an American legend.. The original icons of the period of SUNSHINE POP ( not to be confused with Bubble-gum, thank you) that came onto the scene and laid the standards for those (Osmonds! Pfft!) who came after them.

Their sound is unique and well harmonized - no matter what subject matter they seem to be singing about. TRTP&OT, simple and beautiful about an imaginary lover is probobly the most recongnizable song they did, along with Indian Lake which has a honkey-tonkey kind of keyboard background to it that more than anything I can think of sounds like "1968". Hair - a far-reach in style for the Cowsills is both complex, and unusual for the band - but it shows how versatile they really were. The REAL version of "Love, American Style" is a happy, up-tempo piece that most closely resembles something you might have heard from the Partridge Family, but still it's a groovy song that makes me instantaneously happy, and proud to be both an American AND a Cowsill fan.

And by the way: not many of their songs were put together by other people.. it's all them.

While this genre of music has come and gone in popularity a few times now, this Greatest Hits collection is truly worth a listen if you want to taste a bit of what the "other" sixties was all about. Simply dismissing them as a "Pop" group is doing yourself, and this amazingly talented group a big disservice.