Too Good To Be Real
September 25, 2020
Spokesman-Review
Spokane, Washington
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Pop music is an interesting business. Some bands are painfully authentic. Others are incredibly fake. And some are intentionally fake - like the ones that wind up in movies or TV shows.
Now, some of those are downright entertaining. Others are delicious in their satire of the music scene. And then sometimes, those fake cinematic bands end up with hit records, which confuse reality even more.
Here's a look at 12 of the biggest head-scratchers ever:
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THE PARTRIDGE FAMILY 1970-74
"The Partridge Family" was based on a real-life late '60s/early '70s musical family, the Cowsills. Real-life son and stepmother David Cassidy and Shirley Jones sang their songs but the rest of the "family" pretended to play their instruments. The show lasted four seasons but their first single spent four weeks at No. 1 and their first five singles were Top-20 hits.
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