Sound Magazine [Original recording remastered]

The Partridge Family | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (August 8, 2000)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Original recording remastered
• Label: Buddha
• ASIN: B00004VW4U
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (42 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #78,122 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. One Night Stand

2. Brown Eyes

3. Echo Valley 2-6809

4. You Don't Have to Tell Me

5. Rainmaker

6. I'm on My Way Back Home

7. Summer Days

8. I Would Have Loved You Anyway

9. Twenty-Four Hours a Day

10. I Woke up in Love This Morning

11. Love Is All That I Ever Needed

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

25 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars They Really Introduced Me to Music, May 7, 2004

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Mark Freedman (New York) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Sound Magazine (Audio CD)

I am NOT ashamed to say that the Partridge Family was my real introduction to music in my life. I STILL absolutely love their music. Nostalgia or not, there has never been better pop created. I am a huge music fan today thanks to the PF Gang. I'm into many genres of music today, but nobody did pop better than the PF Gang.

And I still listen to them today, in between U2, Avril Lavigne, The Cure, Led Zep, Fleetwood Mac, Midnight Oil, Michelle Branch, Hole, Radiohead, Alizee, Coldplay, Dido, Mozart, Kitaro, Nelly Furtado, Tori Amos, Counting Crows, Snow Patrol, and over 500 artists, and 1000 albums. So if you are a PF fan, DON'T BE ASHAMED! Enjoy them now as you did when you were a kid, and thank them for introducing you to the fantastic world of music.

This album is amazing. One Night Stand is a great start. Lord knows I had no idea what it meant when I was a kid. I didn't care. And Brown Eyes was always beautiful. Echo Valley 2-6809 is a classic. You Don't Have To Tell Me was my favorite (and one of the most complex on the album -- I guess it introduced me to dramatic music, which I've always loved). Rainmaker is beautiful, as is I'm On My Way Back Home. Summer Days still has one of my favorite piano intros of all time. And it's all great, as is all of their first few albums. I can't even begin to explain the memories and emotions they trigger.

The Partridge Family -- I love you, and always will!

12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Partridge Victory Album, October 31, 2004

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Music Fan-atic "Glen" (Hogwarts) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Sound Magazine (Audio CD)

If there is one non-greatest hits LP that defines a group's sound, then Sound Magazine would be the pinnacle of the Partridge sound. The recording process on this LP is an awesome mix job: the instrumentation is quite strong, the background singers are at their best here with the tightest harmonies ever produced on a Partridge recording. The vocals are crystal clear, the songs are timely and well produced. Probably the best group of Partridge recordings and known as one of thir most popular LPs. The only song that may appear weak was "You Don't Have to Tell Me" but I actually like that one now I am older. "One Night Stand" stands out as a unique selection offered up by 70s music legend Paul Anka, who joined the ranks of Partridge writers such as Carol King, Gerry Goffin, Wes Farrell and Tony Romeo (The true sound of the Family.)"Brown Eyes" was not a hit but a surefire Partridge fan favorite which is as strong as "Summer days", "Echo Valley 2-6809" and "I Woke Up In Love This Morning" ( a Partridge hit as strong as "I Think I Love You" but not as widely remembered or played as a Partridge hit)Rounding out this exquisite roster are other over looked hit potentials as "Rainmaker","I'm On My Way Back Home" "Twenty Four Hours a Day" and Cassidy's self penned and self prophetic rocker "Love Is All I Ever Needed". This selection is a definite must have for any Partridge-curious, new- found fan or any 70s fan at all. One of the greatest Partridge LPs produced! C'mon Get Happy .....buy this "magazine" for sure, it's worth perusing!

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Finest of all the Partridge Family albums, September 4, 2000

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S. Paradoa (Miami, Florida United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Sound Magazine (Audio CD)

Released in August of 1971, this album became the fans' and critics' choice for the best overall release under the Partridge Family banner. Of the eleven tracks, five showed up later on the greatest hits compilations (three on the 1972 vinyl release, two additional tracks on the 1989 compact disc release). Thanks to the superb song selection, a more sophisticated sound, and inspired vocals from David Cassidy, this LP (Bell 6064) became a top ten million seller during the second and highest rated televison season for the group.

The hit single from the album (peaking at #13) was "I Woke Up In Love This Morning." This catchy tune became a fan favorite of many, including movie director Spike Lee. In his 1994 semiautobiographical film "Crooklyn," Lee includes a scene where the five children huddle around the TV set on a Friday evening and sing along with David and the gang to this tune. Back in 1971, if you flipped the 45 rpm single over you heard another terrific tune, "Twenty-Four Hours a Day."

My personal favorites are the bouncy "Summer Days" and the beautiful ballad "You Don't Have to Tell Me," both written by Tony Romeo (the same guy who wrote their next hit single "It's One of Those Nights," from the Shopping Bag LP). Other highlights include "One Night Stand" and "Brown Eyes" (co-written by producer Wes Farrell), plus "Echo Valley 2-6809" (co-written by Rupert Holmes, the same guy who would eventually top the charts in December of 1979 with "Escape"). We are even treated to another song co-written by David, "Love Is All That I Ever Needed."

If you are going to get any of the Buddha reissues of the Partridges' catalog get this one. The studio musicians played letter perfect arrangements. Snap this one up now!