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The Cowsills, a family enterprise which closed the generation gap and shattered the established pop music group image, will entertain Friday, July 30, 8 p.m., at William Rainey Harper College in Palatine.
The concert is made possible through the Harper cultural arts program and will take place in the college center. Public admission is $2. Harper students, faculty and staff will be admitted free with ID cards.
Seven family members make up The Cowsills hit-making recording group – Bob, Paul, John, Barry, and Susan, with parents Barbara and Bud.
Beginning as a family sing-along, the Cowsills now have six MGM record albums to their credit, including “The Cowsill – We Can Fly” and “The Cowsills – Captain Sad and His Ship of Fools.”
The family group has appeared on television in two Cowsill specials, the Kraft Music Hall, Hollywood Palace, Johnny Cash Show, Ed Sullivan Show and the Merv Griffin, Mike Douglas, Johnny Carson and Dick Cavett Shows.]
In the Cowsills’ rise from obscurity to hit record fame, they met with the following incident:
Once a particular hotel management became nervous because all the kids, with the exception of 16-year-old Bill, were under age, so Bill played his drums alone on stage, and music from the remainder of the group was piped in from an upstairs bathroom.
Susan at age 12, is the youngest of the performers. She convinced the boys to allow her to join them for the “We Can Fly” album.
Mother Barbara found herself “conned” into joining her progeny for “The Rain, The Park and Other Things.”
Fourteen years ago, the original Cowsill group was a duo with sever-year-old Bob and older brother, Bill, who no longer performs. When Barry reached seven, he joined the team and later John became a member. Paul recently switched from “backstage artist” to performer.
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