The Cowsills Podcast

We had a great visit today with Jay Reinke who happens to be Jay #3 of "Jay and the Americans". What a great story as to how that came to be. So different and amazing. We hope your 2024 has blasted off in a positive direction! Filling the shoes as the voice of Jay and the Americans is not something any singer can do....only a special singer like Jay Reink! Wait'll you hear how he got there.

Hi everyone! Welcome to the podcast. We actually have our very first return guest, Bruce Belland of the Four Preps, and we catch up with Bruce in this episode amongst other things. Bruce kind of popped in early on us so we weren't able to set up his arrival properly but that's what's fun about the podcast...the looseness and flexibility we have. So enjoy the episode see you next week with another...

When someone you respect suggests you check something out and you do chances are you will be blown away by the heads up. That's what happened with us when Louise Palanker, creator and director of our documentary, "Family Band - the Story of the Cowsills", sent us a link to check out a new family band called "Raized Wrong". So sit back and enjoy this refreshing family group of two brothers and thei...

Welcome to 2024! It is amazing that we are still on our podcast path. Special thanks to Rock Positano, Steve Carlis and Danielle Kessler for keeping the podcast flame alive. What a great historic visit we had with the great New Orleans bass player extraordinaire Geore Porter, Jr.. You have to listen to this man's story it is historic and entertaining and amazing and extremely authentic. From his e...

We hope everyone had a great New Year's Eve and New Year's Day welcome to our first podcast of 2024!!!! Whodathunkit? Not us! Anyway no guest just easing in to the New Year with some conversations about this and that. Enjoy today's episode and stay tuned for fantastic new guests in 2024!!!

Folks we ran in to some technical difficulty in Tomball which bumped us off of our podcast schedule so here we are catching up right in the middle of the holidays. Yikes!! We had a fun visit today talking about this and that. We're trying to attach some footage from Tomball, Texas and our Christmas show but as of this writing we'll have to see about that. Have a Happy New Year and a prosperous 202...

With last week's episode with the great Phil Solem having gone on a bit because not only was his story great but we were also visiting an old friend who we knew when he was an up and coming struggling musician like the rest of us. So we have no guest this week but we do catch everyone up on some issues and this and that so enjoy the visit and Merry Christmas!

After listening to this episode of The Cowsills Podcast folks you will learn that our guest, Phil Solem of the Rembrandts, has a rich history that goes way beyond the fact that he and his bandmate, Danny Wilde, as the Rembrandts recorded and released their biggest hit, the theme song from the TV series "Friends" called "I'll Be There For You". It's a long episode but no one has to listen in one si...

Happy new episode everybody. This week's guest, Marc Nathan, takes us in to the world of the A&R position at a record company. Marc was the guy who signed artists to labels, the A&R guy. He would scour for new music and new talent and play a role in bringing it all to the public. But the story within this amazing accounting was when Marc went to bat for The Cowsills and paid a dear price....

Hello everyone we're here today podcasting live almost because this episode is going up right away. We have no guest this week but Susan gives a great review of the inaugural "Big Easy" cruise she went on. We talk about this and that and get caught up with each other and all of you. Thanks for listening and watching...lots of new guests coming, as Paul says, "...from all walks of life!

Being a "baseball family" we were overjoyed with the opportunity to visit with the legendary Jim Rosenthal, writer of some of the greatest sports books every written. "Nolan Ryan's Pitching Bible" ('91), "Randy Johnson's Power Pitching" ('03), "Tony Gwynn's Total Baseball Player" ('92) and the great "Pitch like a Pro - A Guide for Young Pitchers and Their Coaches from Little League through High Sc...

Ever wonder what a music publicist does and why it seems every successful team has one? We had a great visit with the legendary music publicist Bob Merlis. Bob was head of publicity at Warner Brothers Records for 30 years before breaking out on his own as a successful independent music publicist working with stars like ZZ Top, Dion, John Mellencamp, Neil Young, it goes on and on, over a brilliant...

Hello everybody. Well we have one more episode with no guest so you know us we just chat and visit about this and that. Our next two guests are already lined up so next week look for a visit with famed veteran publicist Bob Merlis and following that we'll be visiting with the great baseball sports writer Jim Rosenthal. We are looking forward to lots of great guests this year.... enjoy the episode.

Hi everyone it's just us talking and visiting about this and that this week. Lots of guests coming in the future but for today let's just sit back and catch up on a few things. Hope all is well with you and yours and please enjoy this episode.

Hi everybody. Today's guest is Jim McCarty...the original and only drummer the Yardbirds have ever had. Jim wrote a book about those great days and what he termed as the "best days" of his life but it's his latest book, "She Walks In Beauty" where the rock 'n roller writes about the "worst" day of his life....when his wife Elizabeth died...here Jim turns to the afterlife and the apparent link betw...

Well everybody we went a little long with Peter Holsapple last week so we split the visit in to Part I and Part II. Welcome to Part II. Peter has a rich history he shares with us and you will be fascinated like we are. How much can one person do? Peter answers that question: a lot and he proves it. Enjoy the wrap up. Next week we have Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Jim McCarty from the Yardbirds but...

Well everyone we are back in the Zoom saddle again. There's comfort to returning to the old podcast studio and having guests and not having the pressure of producing shows while on tour. Our guest this week is Peter Holsapple he of the rich history that includes the dB's, R.E.M., The Continental Drifters, Hootie and the Blowfish and being married for a time to our sister Susan. We hope you enjoy o...

We want to thank you for your patience as you know our friend Paul Shaffer was our guest last week so we held off on our end of summer tour final episode from the road until this week. WELL HERE IT IS!!! We have lots of pictures and video segments and images from the summer. Enjoy the memories from the Happy Together 2023 summer tour!

Well everyone, we had to hold off a week for our final summer tour episode because we heard from our good friend, Paul Shaffer, about an upcoming charity event he and Jeff Barry are having for Paul's daughter Victoria and her Pup Culture Rescue, a dog/puppy rescue service out of Los Angeles. We talk of that event coming up Wednesday, September 13th at the Write-off Room at 11502 Ventura Blvd in St...

Well everybody sometimes it takes two and this time it did we had an iPad collapse on us out here and we had to do a second version of this episode from the bus so it took a little longer and it looks a little grainy but here it is. We're just having some fun sharing some wrap-up thoughts to the tour making a little sausage on the bus and then next week will be the last episode from the road and w...

Hello everybody we are out here and still hanging through. We hope you enjoy these small videos and pictures that we're sending to you from the road. This episode will include a pictorial of about 20 of the venues we've been playing to give you an idea of what kind of venues we're performing in on this tour and some other fun little shots and short clips we hope you enjoy. See you next week everyb...

We're out here doing live podcast episodes on the Happy Together Tour for the rest of the summer. These current episodes have a lot of visuals in them so you audio listeners all you have to do is go to cowsill.com hit, the logo to get into the website, and right there on the front page you will see the words "our podcast" and that will always take you to the most recent audio and visual episode. W...

Hello everybody sorry we are late this week we've been on the road as you know and all of the episodes that we did before we left town of been used and we are live, and will be live, every week from the Happy Together Tour. We have this little short episode to give you all a little tour of things hope you enjoy the short visit and will see you again every week now from the tour!

Hello everybody it's us live not taped ahead of time. We are just finishing up our 2nd break on the Happy Together Tour. We thought we'd take everyone through the typical day out there on the tour and let you know what it's like on the bus and at the venues and how it all goes down out there. Hope you enjoy some of the insights and we'll have some terrific guests heading in to August and the autum...

Carl Giammarese, one of the founding and still current members of The Buckinghams, sat down and visited with us. We've toured many summers with the Buckinghams and have gotten to know Carl very well. Even so it's such a pleasure to visit and hear things we still didn't know about and delve a little deeper. The Buckinghams rocked the '60's and beyond with a sound that ultimately would help blaze th...