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Meet the Brady Bunch

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Their version of "Baby I'm-A Want You" must be sung by angels because it is so heavenly!! When I first heard the Brady's cover of "American Pie", I wanted to hop right in that Chevy and head on down to the levy with them, sing some songs, brush Marsha's hair, eat pork chops. This CD is one non-stop toe-tapping, toothy-grinning, feel-grrrrreat ride that I haven't experienced since the first time I heard 'Ace of Base'!!! If you love the Brady Bunch and you love good music, this CD was made for you!!!

I do think that the Brady Bunch were mediocre singers, who could sound good and bad on the same album at different times, but this one has very few rough spots. The worst is "Me and You and a Dog Named Boo", the rest being great examples of teeny-bopper bubblegum of the 70's. The best songs are undoubtedly "American Pie" (better than McLean's, I think), "Time to Change", and "Love My Life Away". The bonus tracks, "Just A-Singin' Alone" and "Tell Me Who You Love" are from CHRIS KNIGHT & MAUREEN MCCORMICK, which has yet to be released intact on CD. Skip the greatest hits and go for this!

On this first real Brady Bunch album, after their abysmal Christmas effort, the kids do a credible job and the producer manages to put together a viable product, amazingly enough. He even coaxes some harmonies out of them. It's not as easy to sing with a crowd as you might think, especially when not eveyone can sing equally well. This album is notable, apart from the famous version of "American Pie," for the classic Brady tunes from the T.V. show (although these are different recordings of them), "Time to Change" and "We Can Make the World a Whole Lot Brighter." The Bradies remain a fascinating experiment of personalities, and while this is hardly genius stuff, much of it has time capsule appeal.

Without a doubt this was the best album the Brady Kids recorded.

I was crazy about the Brady Bunch when original episodes of the series aired on ABC in the early 70s and when I saw this LP for the first time staring right at me at the local department store I asked my parents if I could have it. I liked what I heard, especially the two strongest songs -- "Time To Change" and "We Can Make The World" -- and I wore the LP out.

As a 12 year old I suppose I knew Bobby, Cindy, Marcia, Greg, Jan and Peter couldn't sing. In fact, yes, I now recall how on "American Pie" they were off key and that it wasn't suppose to sound that way. But they were kids, I was a kid, it didn't matter to me. To me they were superstars in my kid world.

I managed to buy the CD and the others just around the time they all went out of print about ten years ago. I'd pay almost any price for a sealed CD of this album for the simple fact that it's a part of my childhood. I'll never be a kid again nor would I want to. But for 30 minutes or so I can be transported back in time to when all I had to worry about was dreading the arrival of school in the morning.

I don't love these kids enough to avoid hearing them with my ears rather than with my heart. There is no way the sexless sextet can add any nuance to "American Pie" or "Baby I'm a Want You", and they don't. By the way, the former doesn't pick up the lyric until "Helter Skelter, in a summer swelter..." I double checked to see if they dared risk parents' disapproval by warbling the "no angel born in hell could break that Satan's spell" line. Kudos to the group for tearing into said lyric with ravenous glee! Most of the songs have all the kids singing together which either deprives or spares us of their solos. As another reviewer pointed out, Barry Williams and (forbidden lust alert) Maureen McCormick do get some solo lines on "Time To Change" and show some real vocal ability. But wasn't that song originally a big Mike Lookinland (Bobby) moment on the actual series? Or was that Chris Knight's (capital P) Peter? The joke was that whichever it was couldn't do the solo on TV because the "change" was in his voice as cursed puberty struck before showtime.

I wish these CDs would stay in print for the normal 10-15 dollars so folks wouldn't go nuts seeking this out for (as of this writing) the lowest "used" price of $33.50. I can't imagine anyone slapping this on the box and actually feeling it was worth that price. Unless you're listening with your heart...

This is an OK colelction. Better than some of them. Hilarious is the American Pie cover. Although they do not sing all of the verses, the musical arrangement is pretty good.

They also cover songs by Bread and others.

"MEET THE BRADY BUNCH" is the kids' 1st album. It includes songs like "We Can Make The World A Whole Lot Brighter" and "Time To Change"(from Episode 64:"Dough Re Mi"). My fave Brady Kids song is the John Lennon/Paul McCartney classic "Love Me Do". Buy this album RIGHT NOW!

I don't know why this is called "Meet the Brady Bunch", when we already "met" them on their first album, that horrendous Christmas album. Maybe they just wanted us to forget that other album (I wish I could). Anyway, this album is a big improvement over their first album. Having said that, it's still not very good. Most of the kids could not sing at all, which they tried to cover up by having all six of them sing at once. The results don't sound very good. The poor results are really noticeable on the cover versions of recent songs, especially on "American Pie". And then there are the original songs, which don't sound much better. However, there is one decent performance here, which is the well known "Time To Change". On that one, they actually let Barry Williams and Maureen McCormick sing solos. Since those two could actually carry a tune, the results are a lot better. The CD adds two bonus tracks, which are from the rare "Chris Knight and Maureen McCormick" album, with Chris and Maureen singing one song each. Maureen is a much better singer than Chris, but Chris was given the better song of the two. This album is for Brady fanatics only.

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