Come on, Get Happy!

The other day I was cleaning our Airbnb and I saw a video on YouTube about the Partridge Family–it was a movie about how the series was created. I turned it on (watching something always makes the cleaning go faster), and found myself going right back to the early seventies, when we’d gather around the TV and sing along to the songs.

I was still watching Partridge Family episodes long after I finished cleaning that apartment. There was something so wholesome about the show–and it was about values and family. And it didn’t hurt that David Cassidy was cute and Susan Day was beautiful and Shirley Jones seemed to be the perfect mom. (Did you know she turned down the role of the mom in THE BRADY BUNCH? But she loved the music in The Partridge Family. She was a singer, after all.)

If you have never watched the Partridge Family, check out some of the vids on YouTube. I think I’m going to show some to my grandkids to see if the show still resonates. Maybe it won’t, but it certainly won’t hurt them. It’s so much better than much of the stuff on TV these days.

So come on, get happy! Did you watch Shirley and her “kids” in the day? If you didn’t, just type “Partridge Family” into the Youtube search engine and take a walk down memory lane (or for the first time, if you’re younger!) It’s a little hokey (all those kids smiling at no one in the garage), but it’s fun!

~~Angie