The Cowsills Podcast

Ian Anderson is a genius. He really is. What a story what a visit we have to say. Ian brought a new dimension to "frontman" with the arrival of Jethro Tull. He played the flute like a lead guitarist plays a guitar and developed a stage character that could be theatric, entertaining and somewhat even intimidating at times (or as Ian put it, "...the girls really never approached me"). He is a man be...

Kara McKee is a singer/songwriter who had an amazing adventure on "The Voice" when she was chosen by John Legend to be on Team Legend. Her experience was something and we got an insight into the scene behind "The Voice" and how the whole thing works. Kara is the daughter of the governor of Rhode Island, Dan McKee, and a brilliant financial talent also. She opened for us when we recently performed...

Yes Chris Carter is synonymous with "Breakfast with the Beatles" his fantastic Sunday morning show on Sirius XM now in its 15th year. But Chris is also the founder of the 80's/90's band Dramarama. Chris is also a film/rock documentary producer most notable for producing the "Mayor of the Sunset Strip", a rock documentary about the life of renowned LA DJ Rodney Bingenheimer. Lots to go over with Ch...

In the late '70's through the early to mid '80's the Cars were it. Their first album sold over 6 million copies and they had hit after hit including "You Might Think", "Drive", "Just What I Needed" and "Good Times Roll" to name more than a few. As you can imagine Rock 'n Roll Hall of Famer Elliot Easton, who's signature lead guitar work would become identified as part of the Cars "sound", has a st...

We're having a sibling visit today talking about this and that. We can't tell you how many times we schedule a subject matter and then once we get going we don't get to it and we talk about other things. That's kind of what happened here so just enjoy the visit, lots of guests coming we're rocking it on the Happy Together Tour and see out there!

In this weeks episode we introduce you to the great singer Steve Augeri who was the guy who stepped into the lead singer's role vacated by Journey's Steve Perry when Perry's voice gave way to the years of strain singing Journey songs. Steve Augeri was to fill that roll for 8 years but his story goes beyond Journey as you can imagine. So relax, sit back and enjoy a visit with Steve Augeri.

In this weeks episode we introduce you to the great singer Steve Augeri who was the guy who stepped into the lead singer's role vacated by Journey's Steve Perry when Perry's voice gave way to the years of strain singing Journey songs. Steve Augeri was to fill that roll for 8 years but his story goes beyond Journey as you can imagine. So relax, sit back and enjoy a visit with Steve Augeri.

After literally years of dealing with the Pledge Music situation where pledges were received on behalf of the Cowsills and then the whole Pledge Music group went bankrupt and disappeared with everyone's money we decided that we needed to resolve the situation once and for all so we discuss in this episode what actually happened with Pledge Music from the beginning through our attempt to right the...

From her innocent attempt to find a job to becoming John Lennon's "Lost Weekend" companion the path that May Pang has taken in life has been both dramatic and unexpected at so may turns. With the release of the movie "The Lost Weekend - A Love Story" May Pang takes us on the journey of a lifetime. As part of Beatle history (how many can say THAT?) May steps up to the plate and clarifies an importa...

We found John!!! It wasn't easy but we got him while he was cavorting in Brooklyn and doing this and that. John's got some things going on and his latest project will interest everyone! Just a nice family visit getting caught up on each other so please enjoy this visit with our brother John.

MELANIE!!! You're heard "Brand New Key", "Lay Down (Candles in the Rain)" and "Look What They've Done To My Song Ma" and now you can meet the writer and artist of those fantastic songs, Melanie. Her story prior to her first hit record is remarkable and you will be amazed. Just sit back and listen and visualize along with us as Melanie navigates Woodstock and her life leading up to that moment. We...

Our guest this week is Tommy Roe. "Dizzy", "Everybody", "Sweet Pea", "Sheila"....all of these songs were massive hits in the '60's. Meeting and being able to visit with Tommy Roe was an unbelievable experience. This guy is in three Rock 'n Roll Hall of Fames (Rockabilly, Georgia and Iowa) and "Dizzy" was most recently declared #91 in the top 100 songs of all time by USA today! This is a great wind...

In addition to performing with the Box Tops our guest Rick Levy has walked the path of the famous without becoming famous himself. He even wrote a book about it. He's been a tour manager, manager, musical director, and performer with many many artists like Peter Noone, Tommy Roe, the Box Tops, and Jay and the Techniques among others. Hope you enjoy our ramblings!!

In the spirit of "from all walks of life" we sat down and had a visit with director, vocal coach, speech and acting coach and actor Tom Todoroff. Just sit back and be amazed. It was very interesting delving into a subject somewhat foreign to us and a bit out of our box. We hope you find it as interesting as we did.

HAL LIFSON has been called the "guru of 60's pop culture" and is known as a great historian of that era. He is a publicist, writer and author and worked a number of years with Nancy Sinatra even being "summoned" to Palm Springs when they had to run everything by the "Chairman of the Board". On top of everything else we now have our first guest who can say he was on 1970's show "The Gong Show". We'...

Hello everyone!!! No guest this week but plenty of new guests coming. Hey everyone we had such a great visit with Kevin Jonas, the father of the Jonas Brothers, that Kevin has invited us to guest on his "Legendary" podcast which we will tape Friday so we'll keep you posted on that one! In the meantime just sit back and we'll have a short visit together and get you all caught up to date on things a...

In the '80's nothing said rock/pop/edgy more than The Smithereens. Today we visit with Jim Babjak and he takes us through some of the great history of the band and the incredible history they lived and continue to live as a touring viable band. Jim takes us through the death of their lead singer, Pat DiNizio, and the decision to continue to move forward with guest lead singers. Brilliant!!! You'll...

Folks today we venture into the world of the Jonas family. Our guest is Kevin Jonas, Sr., father of the Jonas Brothers. Kevin was at the helm before and during the incredible rise of the Jonas Brothers and you will hear incredible stories from the Dad's perspective which, in the case of the Jonas Brother's history, is very important and influential. Everyone who knows the Jonas Brothers knows abou...

Hello all it's just the 3 of us today catching up on some fun items and answering some of your questions and rambling hither and thither! Next guests to come are Jim BabJak of The Smithereens and Kevin Jonas, Sr., father of the Jonas Brothers and that episode should be a real blast. See you all on the Flower Power Cruise we are trying to work a way to podcast from the ship....we'll keep you posted...

With hit songs like "Spooky", 'Traces of Love", "Stormy" and "Every Day With You Girl" everyone knows of Dennis Yost and the Classics IV and all about their place in pop history. But this is a visit with Tom Garrett, who the universe was going to assign the huge task of taking on the lead singer position in the Classics IV when Dennis Yost had a terrible fall and couldn't perform anymore. Dennis w...

We had such a great visit with Michael V. Pomarico. Michael is a TV Director who was the technical and full-time director for "All My Children" for 27 years amongst other accomplishments - one of the best "soaps" ever! What a great conversation we had as we learned all about directing, technical directing and learned how Michael came to be the winner of 6 (was it 7??) Emmys out of 14 or so nominat...

Hello everyone!!! Why do we love when the holidays leave? I think we love that as much as when they arrive! Everyone is back and we will start having new guests for the new year soon. In the meantime we have a blast in this episode just getting caught up and talking about nutty things and having some fun. Mr. Pufferfish returns with some fun stuff and we gripe away. Enjoy and get caught up on ever...

WE'RE BACK!!! Honestly folks between Branson and then Wautoma then Natick and Sellersville then Christmas now New Years it's been difficult to keep the episodes rolling as you know but that is all behind us now. So sit back and let's get caught up and we'll start new guests rolling soon and we have a lot to share about a lot of stuff. Here's to a great 2023 and Happy New Year to all and to all a g...