Partridge Family-esque backing vocals: Recommendations?

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I've been listening to Tommy James and the Shondells' "Get Out Now" kind of obsessively this week, enamored of the backing vocals on the chorus that sound a lot like the light/airy female voice on Partridge Family tracks like "One Night Stand" and "Doesn't Somebody Want to Be Wanted." (Was Shirley Jones actually singing on those records?) Anyone have recommendations in a similar vein?

(More sunshine-pop threads, please.)

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Friday, 26 May 2006 19:26 (nineteen years ago)

the Rev-Ola label is pretty much a one-stop shopping place for stuff like this...check out:

Marc Eric, Merry-Go-Round, Sandy Salisbury

― hank (hank s), Friday, 26 May 2006 19:43 (nineteen years ago)

Obviously, the Cowsills, who were the original Partridge Family, so to speak. There's a nice "psychedelic" compilation on Rev-Ola, and plenty of other good releases on CD.

― Dee Xtrovert (dee dee), Friday, 26 May 2006 20:11 (nineteen years ago)

I think "1, 2, 3 Red Light" by the 1910 Fruitgum Company might have been the prototype (or one of the prototypes) for that Partridge Family backing vocals style.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Friday, 26 May 2006 20:19 (nineteen years ago)

The earliest Partridge songs on the show had no actual partridges. In the pilot, I like the Bayer/Sedaka song 'Let The Good Times In' and that is all The Love Generation. Then Shirley and David actually sing and The Love Generation moved to backing vocals.

― Carlos Keith (Buck_Wilde), Friday, 26 May 2006 23:43 (nineteen years ago)

You know about this one, right?

Sunshine Psych/Sunshine Pop

― Sang Freud (jeff_s), Saturday, 27 May 2006 01:03 (nineteen years ago)

Didn't Curt Boettcher have a hand in some of the Brady Bunch recordings? Certainly sounds like it. I know, Bradys =/= Partridges, but you know what I mean.

― timmy tannin (pompous), Saturday, 27 May 2006 01:06 (nineteen years ago)

the cowsills 'painting the day' comp on El is genius.
actually all of the recent EL reissues have some of this, the Bugaloos soundtrack, the Pufnstuf soundtrack and the Four King Cousins too.

― keyth (keyth), Saturday, 27 May 2006 20:38 (nineteen years ago)

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