Cowsills - I Really Want to Know You - Featuring Barbara (Mom) Cowsill

[@juliestrom412]

The Rain the Park and other things are sublime. What a precious song. Thank you! 🏆

[@marthagrinnan6155]

Their life is a sad, sad story. Such a talented family.

[@THE-HammerMan]

NOT a "sad story", their lives and long long careers were filled with mostly good times and a few rough ones just like anyone.

[@leeannep.7652]

@@THE-HammerMan Hardly.

[@TVsMrHappyTalk]

A bunch of fabulous records and 50 plus years as gigging musos.. spreading their own trademark brand of joy and happiness is NOT sad in my book. Gotta love the Cowsills! 👏👏👏

[@Janetmessmore9999]

Beautiful voice Barbara 😍 and the kids. I've loved The Cowsills since the Early 70 s very talented Family. 💜💜💜

[@Sarge-fz9wl]

Saw Susan's rendition of this song as well. Either way - WOW. Pulls on the heart strings quite a bit. Love both.

[@nancyadams7218]

Interesting that the Partridge Family was based on this family. On a Partridge Family album, this exact song, I really want to know you, was sung but just a bit different but I recognized it immediately. Interesting to hear this now when all I knew was the Partridge Family one.

[@usmc-veteran73-77]

Thanks for the video upload. Growing up I was not Cowsills fan. BUT, now I love their music. Beautiful song.

[@lucifer-xx9yu]

I was born 1962,,,,still love this group original.

[@vladimirputindreadlockrast812]

Incredibly beautiful.

[@ericbarash6842]

Such beauty no wonder they were the inspiration for the Partridge Family as they were picked first to do the show but passed on it.

[@THE-HammerMan]

They didn't "pass" on the show! The TV producers ONLY wanted Susan, and said the rest of the family were "stick figures" and not needed.

[@leeannep.7652]

@@THE-HammerMan Susan would have been so much better than the Tracy they got!

[@robertbrescia3196]

The producers of the show spent a few days with the family to try to get a handle on the kids and whether they would be appropriate for acting in a TV series. Yes, they were "stick figures", mostly due to their personalities being suppressed by their overbearing father (just look at interviews conducted with surviving Cowsill siblings over the past 25 yers or so - all of the surviving siblings are quite intelligent, insightful and engaging). The other issue is that the role of the matriarch would be played by Shirley Jones and not Barbara. There is a scene in the Cowsills documentary showing a conversation between Bob Cowsill and Shirley Jones about the casting of The Partridge Family. Shirley said she was never told about her substituting for Barbara.

[@brianarbenz1329]

_"I want to know the pain of all your secret fears. And when you speak of them, the ones that no one hears."_ That sounds like the family trying to open up about their own then secret pain.

[@juliestrom412]

She tried to pull it all together and she did good. God Bless that Mom.

[@raymonddaniel8247]

She had a beautiful voice! I always thought she was just a backup singer. She should have had a solo album! Love this rendition along with The Partridge Family's!

[@magdalenapiechocka7940]

Amazing song 🎧

[@georgegunzerath489]

A,really great talent

[@normankennith7919]

& they are still singing! well 3 of them are as a group - john was drumming for the beach boys up until last year!! maybe he will rejoin the others!

[@7JANEWAY]

This is certainly a classic performance. I wonder what other songs Barbara (Mom) sang lead on? However, I give Susan the nod on her rendition in the Billy Cowsill tribute concert. I just think she did an overall better job. Just my opinion, so please, Mom Cowsill fans, don’t rake me over the coals for it!!!

[@usmc-veteran73-77]

Everyone is entitled to their opinion. I agree Susan does a better job. I'm sure Mom Cowsill would be proud of Susan singing her part.

[@bmasterb6470]

I will always love Barbara.

[@scotnick59]

Very pretty version!😬

[@billoakes4475]

Beautiul and thoughtful

[@jesusduarte952]

Bonita época me hubiera gustado vivirla

[@emmett8768]

I am gobsmacked by this

[@rjmcallister1888]

The only song both the Partridges and Cowsills both cut. Shirley Jones was featured on one, and a rare Barbara Cowsill lead on the other. One great Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil song. Columbia did audition the Cowsills in 1969, but determined only Susan had any acting ability. Thus, Shirley & Co., with LA's Wrecking Crew and Ron Hicklin's singers backing David and Shirley, who met with the Cowsills; they became longtime friends.

[@SteveBueche1027]

This was on the Partridge Family’s first album. Sung by Shirley Jones

[@sobroed]

Great song...also sung by the Partridge Family!👍

[@JENEAN32]

The Partridge Family, who is modeled after the Cowsills, did this song on their show.

[@wheelinthesky300]

Barbara has an Irish lilt and phrasing to her voice.

[@kollerbrian]

Hopefully Human Emotion will serve US WELL. BAK

[@AllenJones-w3p]

This song was also recorded by Jack Jones and the Partridge Family.

[@leeannep.7652]

Well that Jack Jones version was interesting. Obviously we all knew about the Partridge Family.

[@jmaclaren4147]

Barb ye were ae wonderful spirit. Dad, ye were ae miserable bastard.

[@robertp7209]

Stop, dad could have ended them all. Been asleep all the years of drugs and wars have we?

[@jmaclaren4147]

@@robertp7209 80 YO, seen it aw, eyes wide open, no' jaded.

[@ms.sheilacameron9626]

Love this and the partiage family did it best❤❤❤ but they are super talented too

[@fordmaidenamill5196]

I want to look behind the mirror of your eyes And see the secret world, the world your words disguise The birthplace of your sighs I want to know the pain of all your silent fears And when you speak of them, the ones that no one hears I want to taste your tears I really want to know you I really want to know you I really want to know you I want to share the dreams you've never shared before To stand inside your soul, to unlock every door And, darling, even more I really want to know you....(repeat v.2)

[@mottledbrain]

The Partridge Family covered this? I never knew.

[@shuroom57]

Poor Richard.

[@jamesbachmann7376]

I was surprised to find this out to. Hearing this thirty something years after falling in love with the Partridge Family version, admittedly I have a bias. But this isn't bad. But I do like a live version that did back the mid 2000 that is pretty good.

[@7JANEWAY]

James Bachmann If you’re talking about the Billy Cowsill benefit concert, where Susan sang lead, I agree.

[@chrisj.9129]

I think the Cowsills were supposed to be the Partridge Family but that didn’t pan out

[@7JANEWAY]

@@chrisj.9129 They admitted so in the documentary about them, Family Band: the Cowsills Story. If you haven’t seen it, I highly recommend it, for it goes into detail about this and other issues. And it’s a good story!!

[@leeannep.7652]

Susan would have been such a better Tracey in the PF. She was a pretty decent actress in that special with Buddy Ebsen. But it was all or none for dictator dad.

[@7JANEWAY]

@@leeannep.7652 I agree. I wonder who was worse-Joe Jackson or Bud Cowsill. Either way, George Osmond, though running his family and home like a military base, comes out smelling like a rose in comparison to these two!!!

[@ericbarash8496]

Just imagine if they took abc’s request for a television sitcom.

[@JamesW225]

Man that heff was hip. Get down to be funky!

[@ThePoobears]

well you know where her kids got the talent from .. RIP Barbara Cowsills

[@kevinogracia1615]

Cool production. Is that her real teeth... (not that it matters.) Anybody got the Carson clip? Peace on earth.

[@autumnleaves6175]

I think the Partridge Family version is better, but that was due to the way it was recorded in the studio using Wrecking Crew musicians and the Ron Hicklin Singers.

[@anthonylowder6687]

The Partridge Family does a better job on this song.

[@coldcaseboys]

No

[@lisaraecrowoman]

Nope

[@marksupic3083]

Did they ever sue or get compensated for the clear ripoff that was “The Partridge Family”? Don’t really care-just curious!

[@billhosko7723]

good grief.

[@spamwagon]

Depending on who owns the songwriting and publishing rights, they are automatically compensated when a song is covered. Not ripped-off. Covered.

[@robertp7209]

Mom always performed with the family, very talented she was. All I knew is Susan could dance it up, Mom was stiff as a rail. Cut the shet about sad case, been a lot worse and I mean a lot worse, just pay attention to what’s going on today. Like I guess you missed the drug and war decades .

[@robertbrescia3196]

Barbara had terrible state fright, according to the kids.

[@jlbaker2000]

I think Bud abused Barbara.

[@SpenceCurry]

Cursed family . But from it came the continental drifters