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Newport rites join Cowsill and Boston DJ
June 22, 1987
Providence Journal
Providence, Rhode Island

Do you BARRY COWSILL take this woman to be your wedded wife intoned Justice of the Peace JOHN Mcgann. You bet replied the groom exchanging marital vows with DEBORAH FLANNERY exchanging marital vows with DEBORAH FLANNERY a Boston radio disc jockey.

It's been twenty years since the COWSILLS of Newport hit charts with Hair and The Rain the Park and Other Things since their wellscrubbed faces appeared on milk commercials and on the cover of Sixteen magazine. Yesterday's ceremony was held on a knoll below the family's Harborview Drive home. Barry, now 34, and writing stuff and playing around Boston said he returned here for the wedding, the first for both, because this is where everything started for the singing group.

To the tune of Paul McCartney's "Ram On," [DEBORAH FLANNERY] stepped into place beside Cowsill, with SUSAN COWSILL, bluejeaned and barefoot, holding white carnations. Above waved banners proclaiming the Cowsill coat of arms, Budweiser beer and the elements.

Susan Cowsill 24 and about to record an album was the only one from the singing group to attend BARBARA died two years ago RICHARD PAUL ROBERT and JOHN are in California and BILLY now lives is living in Vancouver and writing songs for ROY ORBISON and RONNIE MILSAP

CORRECTION (printed June 25, 1987 Providence Journal)

BILLY COWSILL part of the Cowsill family singing group of the 1960s was best man at the wedding of his younger brother BARRY It was incorrectly reported in in Monday's JournalBulletin that only SUSAN was in attendance at the wedding.




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