Greatest Hits

Greatest Hits Artist: The Partridge Family
Label: Arista
Category: Music



Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
Media: Audio Cassette


UPC: 078221860444
EAN: 0078221860444
ASIN: B000002VGS


Release Date: 1989-08-25

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Tracks:

  1. Come on Get Happy
  2. I Think I Love You
  3. Doesn't Somebody Want to Be Wanted
  4. I'll Meet You Halfway
  5. I Woke up in Love This Morning
  6. Cherish
  7. It's One of Those Nights (Yes Love)
  8. I Can Feel Your Heartbeat
  9. Am I Losing You
  10. Could It Be Forever
  11. Point Me in the Direction of Albuquerque
  12. Echo Valley 2-6809
  13. Summer Days
  14. Looking Through the Eyes of Love
  15. How Long Is Too Long
  16. One Night Stand

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Customer Reviews:

3 out of 5 stars Greatest But Not The Latest!.......2005-05-08

This compilation came out on Arista in 1989 and is the first PF CD to be released. The artwork for the cover is a PF lunchbox on a collage of colors similar to the bus. The first Greatest Hits was a picture of them in a house...At Home With Their Greatest Hits(1972) and folowed by The World Of The Partridge Family(1974), a blow up of the same photo.

PF fans are a little different from David Cassidy fans, oddly enough and when they compile the 2 together, everyone gets upset! David Cassidy included 3 PF hits on his Greatest Hits(1974) to make the LP have more buying power. They would have been better off adding his own 3 much sought after hits Daydream, the non lp B-sides All I Wanna Do Is Touch You (b/w Cherish) and Frozen Noses (b/w If I Didn't Care)

This collection includes David Cassidy's first 2 hits Cherish and Could It Be Forever and 14 PF favorites. The openning theme Come On Get Happy arks the first time release on a PF collection. It also includes How Long Is Too Long from Bulletin Board (STILL not available on CD!) The rest are their hits and most noteable album tracks like Summer Days, One Night Stand and Point Me In The Direction Of Albuquerque.

Missing in this collection are the hits Breaking Up Is Hard To Do, Friend And A Lover, Walking In The Rain and their last single released in 1973-4 Looking For A Good Time. Also, there is no inclusion of any material from Crossword Puzzle.

So the only reason to have this in your collection is for How Long Is Too Long. Otherwise choose the Definitive Collection or the New Very Best for hard to get stuff.

4 out of 5 stars Delicious Teen Pop.......2004-12-18

The late 1960s and early 1970s were the golden age of teen pop and the Partridge Family were one of the prime purveyors thereof. This greatest hits album lets you relive this wonderful era with melodious songs like the singalong I Think I Love You, the catchy Doesn't Somebody Want To Be Wanted and the surprisingly mature I'll Meet You Halfway, a really soulful song. Other lovely pop ditties include It's One Of Those Nights, Cherish, Could It Be Forever and the great hit Looking Through The Eyes Of Love. I think that this album includes some of David Cassidy's solo hits because he became a star in his own right in the early 1970s and did very well, especially in the UK. The music is pure pop heaven and compares well with the clinical stuff that passes for pop and rules the airwaves nowadays. If you like tuneful, catchy music and bright vocal harmonies, you'll love this trip down memory lane.

4 out of 5 stars Lunchbox-First Family Of Rock's Greatest Hits.......2004-11-01

Also known as Lunchbox this now defunct release by Arista came out in 1989 and tooted 16 of their greatest hits. Although the theme song "C'mon Get Happy" was not a hit is happily included here to set the theme as well as two of David's solo hits "Cherish" and "Could It Be Forever" which shows a little insightful research could go a long way. I personally believe Arista should have recognized David's solo potential both then AND now and put out a separate solo greatest hits for him. Curiously absent are any singles from "Crossword Puzzle" which may have spawned no hits but neither did "Bulletin Board" but the cut "How Long Is Too Long" (a great song though!) is in the mix here. The collection DOES include most of the Family's biggest hits and it DOES make for a fun listen! All the power house tunes are here so C'mon Get Happy!

5 out of 5 stars Music You Don't Outgrow.......2002-05-29

What was it about The Partridge Family? The songs may have been called bubblegum and no serious oldies station would touch their music but thirty years after the songs were popular on AM rock radio they would now be listed as "adult contemporary" and still sound new and fresh. With much of the oldies getting outgrown because they don't speak to who we are nowdays the lyrics of these songs have grown up with us.

5 out of 5 stars Rock At Its Finest.......2002-04-04

There can be no doubt that the Partridge Family represented rock artistry at its very finest. The melodies are infectious, the lyrics are insightful, and the performances are sublime. Of course, frontman David Cassidy, as lead vocalist (and Claptonesque lead guitarist), was often the main focus of attention, which is understandable; however, the marvelous contributions of the other members of the band should not be overlooked. For example, few others (except perhaps Keith Emerson or Rick Wakeman) could match the sheer artistry which Susan Dey brought to the keyboards, and, of course, Shirley Jones was equally skilled in that area. Danny Bonaduce's bass work was similarly brilliant (I defy Jack Bruce to do better), and was vitally important to crafting the inimitable PF sound, as was the wonderful tambourine playing of Suzanne Crough. It is also noteworthy that the rest of the band was able to adapt so well to the stylistic changes caused by the departure of original drummer Jeremy Gelbwaks (whose style was reminiscent of the great Keith Moon) and his replacement, Brian Forster, whose steady hand and keen sense of rhythm rivalled the legendary Charlie Watts. Although I have always been a devoted Gelbwaks fan, I have to admit that Forster was a brilliant replacement. Of course, in addition to their wonderful instrumental talents, all the Partridges were superb vocalists, with the voices blending in stunningly beautiful harmonies unmatched by any other band in the history of rock music. This stuff is real, sincere, and heartfelt rock at its best.

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