A year ago, when their first record climbed the charts, Bud & Barbara Cowsill, above, went on tour with their children.
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With little more than hope, but lots and lots of talent a family of nine from Newport decided to try for pop fame. This is the ...
COWSILLS'
STORY
of BIG
FAMILY
SUCCESS!
The Rain, The Park, And Other Things was their first hit. It made the name Cowsills a familiar word to everyone, especially because the family group appeared many times on the Ed Sullivan TV program.
But somehow, although they knew they couldn't count on it, the Cowsills sort of knew that fame was where they were headed. You see, if they hadn't beceome famous hitmakers, they wouldn't have a house right now!
The story of this big family's big success goes back many years to Ohio, where young Barbara Russell met and married a handsome sailor, Bud Cowsill, and started raising a family when in January, 1948, she had her first son.
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