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In the sixties with its growing focus on youth culture, fathers stopped dominating the action. The Cowsill Brothers performed music made popular by the Beatles. When their family joined them and they began to write original music, the Cowsill Family became a popular touring musical group. Fascinated by the phenomenon, television producers put together a program based on the Cowsills and hired actress Shirley Jones to play the mother. The Cowsill children refused to participate without their mother, so The Partridge Family was formed. It consisted of Jones, her stepson, and a group of young actors who proved to be non-singers. However, since it was television the children could be dubbed and an artificial, and soon to be very popular, television show was launched.
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