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The Cowsills are getting another turn at bat.
One David Ortiz swing Friday meant the Cowsills wouldn't sing this past Saturday. But the Newport-originated family act will sing the national anthem and a few strands of "Hair" this Saturday as the Boston Red Sox take on the New York Yankees in Fenway Park in the American League Championship Series.
The group, popular in the late '60s, was scheduled to sing the national anthem had there been a Game 4 in the American League Division Series. And for a while Friday night in Game 3, it was looking good for the Cowsills and shaky for the Sox.
The home team blew a 6-2 lead to the Anaheim Angels in the seventh inning when Vladimir Guerrero clubbed a grand slam to tie it. In the 10th inning, however, Sox slugger Ortiz hammered a two-run homer into the left field Monster Seats to win the game 8-6 and the series 3-0.
But Richard Cowsill, who lives in Middletown, said Charles Steinberg, vice president of public relations, worked out a deal for the group to perform this coming weekend, in what will be Game 4 of a seven game series.
The Cowsills did appear at Fenway as planned last Saturday, game or no game.
"We rehearsed some songs, and there were tour groups who applauded," he said. "My brother Bob went out to the wall where the Bob's Stores sign is. He posed for a picture under it, where it just read 'Bob.' It was great."
Steinberg met Bob Cowsill last summer in a Los Angeles-area club, where Cowsill performs twice a week. The two struck up a conversation, and Steinberg slated the Cowsills to sing "The Star-Spangled Banner" and a snip of their hit "Hair" in reference to curiously coifed stars like shaggy Johnny Damon and Jheri-curled pitcher Pedro Martinez.
Bob Cowsill, a lifelong Sox fan who lives in California, told Steinberg, he would crawl from coast to coast for a chance to sing at Fenway. The late Barbara Cowsill, who also sang in the group, was a big Sox fan as well. Richard Cowsill said this will be a special moment for the family.
"She'll be looking down and seeing us singing on the pitcher's mound," he said. "The Sox, the Yankees, my mother, the whole thing will be unbelievable."
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