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Cowsills Tell On Bill
May 1968
Outasite! Magazine


Cowsills

BUZZ, BUZZ GO THOSE COWSILLS. THEY'RE TELLING ON BILL THIS TIME!

The OUTASITE! staff got together with all of the Cowsill kids for a good, old-fashioned Snitch Session -- and you should have heard them! But since you can't, here's exactly what they said into our tape-recorders!

(Don't worry -- it was all in fun!) This month we're printing what they all said about their oldest brother -- Bill -- who's the leader of the group, lead singer, and the one who's most responsible for those OUTASITE! Cowsill sounds!

BOB LEADS OFF

Bill's growing up. So he has all the problems of a Growing Boy. Now I'm not saying that the others don't, but he's at the stage where he doesn't know what he wants, cos he just became 20 and he's a Mon now, and he left his old Teen hood to the rest of us, and we're all alone now. He's the leader of the group because he's 20, so he gets the title. But he's really all right.

BARRY: "HE DOES ALL THE YELLING"

Bill's the oldest. And boy does he make us stay in line! He's the one who has to do all the yelling at rehearsal if you make a mistake or anything. He's really the leader - and he gets pretty violent at rehearsal. When John makes a mistake, he yells, just blasts it off - "If you make one more mistake!!!!" And then if my father's there and he hears him yell at John, he yells, too, because John could care less what Bill tells him!

JOHN AGREES

Bill is thin, like a pretzel. And he's serious all the time. And he yells at you a lot and everything. Most of the time it's at me. Cos if I miss a beat he yells at me - I'm not allowed to miss a beat! He wouldn't kill me exactly - but he'd do something! He gets grouchy at times.

BUT SUSIE SAYS ...

Bill is the nicest to me of all my brothers. Kind of. Cos he took me out to dinner once, and to the movies. It wasn't my birthday - or anything. He just likes me! He's my brother and my godfather. I don't know how that happened, it's just that he's my godfather. And my aunt is my godmother.




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