The Brady Bunch “Sunshine Day” 1972 [HD-Remastered TV Audio

Brady Bunch ^ | 1969 | Sherwood Schwartz

[DallasBiff]

Since I posted the Partridge Family’s “I Think I Love”, to be fair here’s a song from “The Brady Bunch”. Unlike “I Think I Love You”, “Sunshine Day” did not chart.

[SamAdams76]

Sorry but I'm a very busy person and I don't have time to sit through some four minute video of a TV show family doing the two-step on some talent show. Can somebody please post a summary so that I can get on with my busy life?

Of course, busy person, here you go!

Another fictitious TV family attempting to launch a music career, do you say?

Yes indeed, I do say. After the massive success of "The Monkees" and then "The Partridge Family", other popular TV shows at the time felt that they should also take a stab at establishing the cast as musical performing artists. Thus they could cash in on the popularity of the TV show by selling millions of records.

Can't sing? No problem. We can dub in the voices. Can't dance? No problem. A side-shuffle here, a handclap there and the kids at home will LOVE it.

And they did.

[Bullish]

Jeeze, Russia should have just nuked us right then and there.

[Bullish]

...Oh, and Gary Marshall’s a turd.

[wally_bert]

Put on your Sunday best, we’re going to Sears.

[wally_bert]

More of a Green Acres person myself.

[EvilCapitalist]

I liked Green Acres too. Arnold Ziffel was the star of the show.

[SamAdams76]

I was eight years old when The Partridge Family first aired in September 1970. I still remember that it came on Friday nights right after The Brady Bunch (that was already in its second season). Like you, I did not have the happiest childhood so I found both shows appealing as "substitute families."

In fact, I very naively penned a letter to Reuben Kincaid, Manager of the Partridge Family, volunteering to join the band as a drummer, stating that I could learn to "drum better than Chris."

So for a few weeks, I fantasized about the Partridge Family bus pulling up to my house and whisking me away. But that illusion was shattered when "Mr. Kincaid's" response came, n the form of an invitation to join The Partridge Family Fan Club, along with a 8x10 glossy of Keith Partridge!

How's that for a slap in the face. I handed the Keith Partridge glossy to my sister and became a little more cynical and wise to the ways of the world around me.

Getting back to the Brady Bunch, I believe their "jump the shark" moment came when Mike Brady's architecture firm sent him on a business trip to Hawaii and told him he could take the whole family with him, including even Alice the housekeeper!

C'mon, even to a child, that scenario was just not plausible.

As for Partridge Family, I don't remember a jump the shark moment for them. That was just a solid show all around and it was cancelled way too soon. Danny Partridge was my role model. The music on that show was great too, I don't care what the others say. Songs like "Point Me In The Direction Of Albuquerque", "Echo Valley 2-6809" and "Summer Days" are pure 1970s sunshine pop classics.

[dfwgator]

How's that for a slap in the face. I handed the Keith Partridge glossy to my sister and became a little more cynical and wise to the ways of the world around me.

Just like Ralphie...



"I went out to face the world again. Wiser."

[nomorelurker]

“After the massive success of “The Monkees””

“Michael Nesmith”, Peter Tork, Mickey Dolenz and of course Davy Jones, don’t get the respect they deserve.

Nesmith was a great songwriter.

Having said that I may watch Cowsills stuff tonight.

[wally_bert]

I would trade lives and surroundings with Oliver Douglas.

[SamAdams76]

Totally agree with you on The Monkees. Those guys could play, sing, and write.

In fact, songs of Michael Nesmith were recorded by Linda Ronstadt, Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, and Paul Butterfield Blues Band. As well as having solo hits on his own (i.e. "Joanne", "Silver Moon")

[lowbridge]

Yeah, I watched partridge family in daily syndicated reruns too.

The music was indeed good every episode. The show was lucky in that they had a very talented songwriting team of the time writing up their music, Boyce and Hart. If the music sucked, it wouldn’t have been believable that the partridge family was a successful band.

Though I didn’t watch the partridge family for the music. I didn’t care about the music. I watched for the comedy and I liked to look at the interior of their house (even if it was a fake set). Much like the brady’s, they had a beautiful, nice house I would have loved to own and live in.

My family lived in an old, run down, cockroach infested apartment in the city. The partridges and the bradys had a private house to call their own out in the suburbs, with grassy front and back yards to play in. I didnt.

They had wall to wall carpeting. I didn’t. We had bare wooden floors or linoleum that was in dire need of replacing.

They had second floors for their bedrooms which provided more privacy for the bedroom area. I didnt.

They had fireplaces. I didnt. Etc, etc.

One thing that was a real turnoff for me regarding the partridge family was that the kids were being raised by a single mother like I was. Didn’t matter to me that shirley partridge was a sweet, kind, loving woman who never did and never would abuse her children. No screaming. No yelling. No hitting. No cursing like my mother.

[dfwgator]

There wasn’t a straight teenage boy that didn’t have the hots for Susan Dey.

[Empire_of_Liberty]

I would trade lives and surroundings with Oliver Douglas.

Yeah, but that wife would drive me nuts. He had the patience of Job.

[wally_bert]

The tractor would even more maddening.

[Allegra]

The spoof features of the late 90s made good-natured fun of the original series. Highly recommended

Those were brilliant. 😂

[gnickgnack2]

Check out HeeHaw for more of the same in a variety show, with some good music, too! And I’m not even a country fan.

[gnickgnack2]

And Nesmith’s mother invented white out.
I think Mike got into music videos pre-MTV...maybe a vhs subscription service?