The Cowsills In Magazines

IT'S BEEN SAID that one picture is worth a thousand words - and that's very true, cos Mini-Mom (also know as Mrs. Barbara Cowsill, mother of seven Cowsill kids) has a collection of pix that literally take you back to the very beginning and show the full "life in pix" of each cutie in her crew! Just come along and see for yourself!

Betcha can't guess who this is! Nope, it just resembles Paul - but actually it's sister Sue at seven months.

Wouldja believe that this beautiful "little" baby grew to be six feet and one inch tall? Tis true - it's Bill at three months!

Sure you know these are the twins - but did you know that Bob is the one on the left, and that he and Dick were just ten months old when this pic was snapped?

Well, if it isn't the "wee-some three-some" - Barry (five), Susie (eleven months), and John (four).

My, how time flies! "Billy The Kid" was five here - wearing a cowboy suit "Grandma" sent him. The twins, Dick (left) and Bob, were three years old.

Even at 14 months, Barry showed signs of being a handsome young man. Wonder if the girls ran after him 'way back then?!

This pic was taken when there were only four kids in the Cowsill clan. Surrounding Daddy Bud are Paul (in front), Bill (in back) - and the twins, Dick and Bob, who were just three years old.

Susie at four already showed an interest in music - 'cept it was Barry who wound up playing bass guitar!

John was seven here - Christmas Eve in '63, when he and Susie helped to decorate the tree.

"Cupid" meets the Cowsills. Paul was three when he met Kathy, his first love.

Thanksgiving wouldn't be Thanksgiving without a turkey! This pic was in '61, and - from left to right - are Dick, Paul, John, Bill, Bob and Barry.

No, Susie didn't get married - she posed prettily for her First Communion when she was seven.

When Bill was three and a half, the Cowsills, lived in Portsmith, Va. His hair was platinum blond and his eyes were sky blue, but -

- by the time Bill was 16, his hair had turned brown and his eyes had turned green!

John was seven years old and in the second grade when this school pic was taken.

One of Barry's first school pictures. He was seven and a half at the time.

Confirmation Day, when the twins were 12. That's Dick on the right. Wonder what happened to Paul's flower?
(Note: They have Paul and Bob reverse.)

In 1965, the Cowsills gave their very first family concert at Rogers High School in Newport, R.I., for the CYO. Since it was for charity, even Paul and Dick were persuaded to join in.

And in 1968 the whole world fell in love with the captivating Cowsills!