The Cowsills Podcast

Today's guest is fellow podcaster and original lead singer/drummer of Rare Earth, Peter Rivera. Peter is considered to be one of the premier singers/drummers of all time. His passion for music and unsurpassed talent earn him standing ovations wherever he plays. Peter shares the story of how his start to drumming was all due to him getting hit by a car, the band's journey up the charts, and more! S...

Today, the Cowsills bring on two talented musicians, Dennis Scott and Jonathan Pushkar. The two have been called to create music from a young age -- Johnathan began playing guitar at age 10 and writing songs in his early teens and Dennis began his entertainment career at the age of 7 as an actor on Broadway. The Cowsills had the pleasure of working with Johnathan and Dennis on their Mr. Rogers tri...

This week, Gunnar Nelson joins The Cowsills to share a story of perseverance and a can-do mindset. Gunnar Nelson is a singer-songwriter and musician who, with his twin brother Matthew Nelson, is a member of the multi-platinum-selling band Nelson. Entertaining was a family affair for Gunnar -- his father was pop star Ricky Nelson and his mother was actress Kristin Harmon, the sister of TV superstar...

Today's guests are the multi-talented Pat and Debby Boone. Pat is a singer, composer, actor, writer, television personality, motivational speaker, and spokesman. He sold more than 45 million records, had 38 Top 40 hits, and appeared in more than 12 Hollywood films. Billboard claims Boone as the second-biggest charting artist of the late 1950s. Until the 2010s, Boone held the Billboard record for s...

Hey Casters! How are you? How are you liking Casterville? Let us know at info@cowsills.com ! In this episode, we debut our new segment, I've Got Good News. Instead of some negative gripes, we've decided to share some good things going on! Today's guest is Troy Elich from the American vocal rock and roll group, The Vogues. We're so lucky to have The Vogues on the Happy Together tour this summer and...

This week we go full force into the Pauly Pufferfish Segment, where Paul Cowsill shares a plethora of random facts he has accumulated. We follow it up with our gripe segment, where Paul throws in a few extra fun facts he has. Our musical guest this week is Jules Alexander of The Association. Now you may be thinking, didn't you already have The Association on? Each member of the band offers a uniqu...

If you watched Showtime in 2011, you're probably familiar with our documentary, "Family Band: The Cowsills Story" This doc ran multiple times a day every single day for 2 years straight. Today's podcast guest is the director and creator of that documentary, Louise Palanker. Along with directing, Louise is a writer, producer, filmmaker, author, photographer, comedian, podcaster, musician/songwriter...

This week we're joined by two incredible musicians, our brother John Cowsil and Robby Scharf the bass-player on our last album called "Global". Strap in -- It's a crazy story that begins in the offices of Dick Clark and ends with Bob, Paul, Susan, and John sitting in a hotel room in Marina Del Rey across from two FBI agents who have tracked them down. We also hear Paul's gripe with Bob's selection...

Today's guest is Wayne Coysill.. sorry, no Wayne Coy. He's like a brother to us! Wayne Coy is a DJ, agent, manager, jack of all trades. He is a dear friend of ours, even though he thinks we are unmanageable. We share memories from our work together and the story behind our new song Largo Nights pulling from Wayne's 9-year-old lyrics. Largo Nights will be available on Rhythm of the World. Song of t...

In today's solo episode, we revisit The Cowsill's Gripe segment. You'll find we had a few extra gripes this week. We also share our favorite stories from some of the many tv shows we've appeared on ranging from reality shows, to game shows, to musican performances. For a full list of our tv appearances check out or website: http://www.cowsill.com/tvshows.html

In today's episode, we pull back the curtain and share how grateful we are for our Executive Producer Dr. Rock Positano. We reminisce on how Dr. Rock found us and ended up being exactly the guy we were looking for. Fast forward to now, he's been a part of the making of our next album, The Rain, The Park, and Other Things as well as this very podcast! We're also thrilled to announce our guest for t...

First and foremost, happy birthday to the lovely Susan Cowsilll! Today's episode was recorded on Susan's birthday and so of course we couldn't start the episode without wishing her the best. The three of us talk through our gripes, we answer more of your questions, and share a little bit of pufferfish trivia courtesy of Paul. Our special guest this week is Chuck Negron, formerly of Three Dog Night...

Welcome back to The Cowsills Podcast! We've reached the 10th episode of our show and we're thrilled to have you all along for this journey. A special thanks to Barb, Kim, and everyone else who sent in questions for us. This episode is the first of once-monthly episodes without any guests. We just have so much to say! To have your question featured in the next episode, send an email over to info@co...

In this episode we’re revisiting the first ever Cowsill’s tour as a family, flying out to Los Angeles to stay and perform at the Century City Plaza. We reminisce about the games we played, competitions we started, and the trouble we would get into on the road. We have Ron Dante and Toni Wine on the show, and you may not know them by name, but you definitely know them by voice. They’re the anonymou...

We’re kicking off this episode with some exciting Cowsills news! Rhythm of the World, an album where we’ve mixed 20 songs together, is now complete and mastered, so stay tuned! This episode we’re talking about our first ever cross-country tour, flying for the first time, and going out to Los Angeles to perform. We reminisce about the trip and what an eye-opening experience it was for us as kids ne...

We have the legendary Bill Medley in the studio, and we’re talking about everything from the shared characteristics and connections between The Righteous Brothers and The Cowsills, what it’s like to still be singing the songs we sang our 20s, and how we’re stretching ourselves (literally doing pilates!) to keep the music and our vocals alive during a pandemic. Bill tells us the story of how he and...

We’re back, not canceled, and fired up about decreasing covid cases! In this episode, we’re talking to our very special guest and dear friend, Jim Yester, the last original member of The Association. We reminisce about 1966 road trips to New York City where we’d listen to Along Comes Mary, and the voice of Jim Yester on the car radio and then watching him perform on the Ed Sullivan show. Jim tells...

Our good friend, Dennis Tufano joins the show today for some hard-hitting questions and a bit of tomfoolery. Dennis candidly retells his journey of The Buckingham's conception and how quickly the band ramped up to be declared 1967's "most listened to band in America" by Billboard Magazine. He takes us through the years and the names that all went into Dennis's unbelievable career. And, of course,...

Today in the studio we have our brother, John Cowsill! John holds the record of being in the most bands in our family and subsequently has quite a collection of stories. We start off comparing notes on each of out own recollections of how John joined our band, The Cowsills. From there, we walk through how our 10 show contract with The Ed Sullivan Show turned into just 2, John's journey of his behi...

We're the band that had their mother in the group. We're the band that they based The Partridge Family TV show off of. We're the band with their song in Dumb & Dumber. And now, we're the band that's starting a podcast. We're The Cowsills and we're here to talk about anything and everything; stories from the road, interviews with musicians, and lots of laughs. We've got a lot of good things coming...