It’s weird- I’m 64 now and just saw the Cowsills at the Woodstock fair in Connecticut last week. Susan was pretty funny. She’s 59 and looks great! They still sound amazing! I have to admit I was more into the Beatles and The Beach Boys at the time but now I appreciate their music! They joked on stage how they were going to get through an hour of music when they only had 4 hits. Then one of them said “by singing other people’s hits”. They were all Hilarious throughout the show. Nice family fun!
I remember them on a talk show with so called tough guy Mickey Spillane...( It might have been Virginia Graham)... Spillane ran his mouth about rotten no good mother's who let their kids have ling hair... One of the older brothers jumped up to give him a beat down...yelling at him for speaking bad of his mother..he had to be held back ...I was in awe!! I was bullied and beaten at home so to me he worthy of idol worship!!! What a cool loyal loving guy...I saw the documentary sometime back..I hate what their old man did!
@@mmvvmm Just a great guy having his mother's back and not tolerating disrespect...there were no punches thrown .. just teenage anger and rightly so ...I was abused so this was refreshing for me then
Susan is TOPS! She performs as if she'd been around many years. Back then due to time constraints, a singer(s) would sometimes be asked to shorten a song. This may have happened here. Makes it harder when you only practice for it. Also, the date of this show was Aug. 25, 1970.
@@tats5880, If by “they” you mean the Vietnamese people then you are correct; otherwise, whoever “they” is wouldn’t let the French win after 30 years of war either. As the Vietnamese say, the American war in Vietnam was the U.S.’s longest war (at least until Afghanistan), but it was Vietnam’s shortest. Perhaps a war of attrition by a foreign power on someone else’s native soil in their bid for self-determination and independence in which they will never concede defeat is simply unwinnable.
We love you Susan and the Cowsills! Bad audio here, but still great! Love when she goes over to the other guests, too cute! This amazes me even more knowing the horrific conditions you grew up with, apparently a truly disgusting and abusive father. I don't know how you survived it, but you all did, America loves you!
Susan, and the guys still performing, still looks and sounds great. She has amazing charisma. Anyone remotely interested should check out their new album “Rhythm of the World.” Some great, and different, songs there that they wrote, with plenty of their hallmark harmonies and melodies.
I used to crack on the Cowsills when I was a kid. It wasn't my sort of music, but as a grown-up musician I have to appreciate the raw talent they all had and admire their fortitude in the face of the struggles they endured as a family. Saw the Family Band movie last month and my heart broke retrospectively for all of them.
@@cathsalazar9930 'Family Band: The Cowsills Story' is the title. I just read a _Variety_ review. I'll watch it if I can find it on a library dvd or can find it free online. Thank you.
The look on Mel Tormes face when Susan goes over to them is just priceless. Other than forgetting about where the lyrics went, she just killed it. Great performance!
This reminds me of my nan, as a kid, me & my brother visited her every weekend and wed just listen to old songs all night, just me, my brother, my nan & my great nan, such beautiful memories, love this song ♡
Thanks for this priceless upload, a true treasure from the vaults of time. Susan was amazing, as always. This is an interesting opportunity to see what they looked like when they dumped Mom for a day. It's too bad they weren't able to go on from this on their own, now that they were older, and make albums with this lineup, with Susan as lead singer. It would have been interesting.
I think Susan had her own style of singing, and performing. It was cool how she was allowed to do so many solos at a young age. This was truly a family thing. They all were so talented.
A very underrated group. Their harmonies were great. I can remember a time in my life, when I would have been embarrassed to admit I liked this stuff, in front of my peers. I was more of an acid rock kind of guy, back in the day. But as I've gotten older, I have to admit, I didn't do myself any favors by turning my nose up at this music. I enjoy intricate harmonies. Hell, I love The Andrews Sisters, and more recent (but still a decade old), The Puppini Sisters. You Tube their Jilted Again video, and be pleasantly surprised and thoroughly entertained.
+littleol me I'm with you on almost every sentiment you have said here. I am 56 and fell in love with the Andrews Sisters while watching "Buck Privates" on the Saturday morning oldies channel. As for Susan, she and I are the same age and I had a killer crush on her. Still do.
PoppaBlue59 Yes, Susan was a little cutie back in the day. Of course I didn't realize it at the time, as I was 6 years older than she was and never seen any of the performances until the advent of the internet. But I did listen to a couple of their songs and loved them. Indian Lake, and The Wind the Rain and Other Things.Oh, I can't forget Hair. Susan is much older now, of course, but I still like her. And about the Andrews Sisters, I believe I discovered them the same way you did. They were from Minneapolis, if I'm not mistaken. My home town.
Wow when I turned 64 last year I never dreamed I would hear that song they did it great great memories growing up I had a cowsills record remember those
Yes, Agreed. I’m 69 now and as a kid listening to the Beatles sing it I thought turning 64 was in another life , now watching Susan sing it brings back wonderful memories growing up in the 60’s and 70’s.
@@stephenstone8480 there are many, many times more 'real' musicians now then there were in the 1960s. Just because you don't like the music they play doesn't make them not 'real musicians'.
Well well well Susan guess what? You made it! Hope you read this because I'd like to be a little bit early to wish you a Happy (3X) Birthday coming up. I'd love for you to film a remake of this video. 🙂 Mine is a week after yours. XXOO
I love how Mike Douglas mouths the words "I love you" to Susan when she goes jaunting over to him and grabs his hand while staring right into his eyes. His reaction is priceless.
Susan would be around the age of 11 during this interview and performance. To this present day she’s as cute as she can be. A wonderful sister to her talented Cowsill brothers, a wonderful wife and mother.
Never heard of them thanks to UA-cam I found them. It popped on my UA-cam page wit Susan singing with Dean Martin. Need to check them out Now. Susan was just couple years Younger then I am. Thanks UA-cam
Susan had a decent voice but she was or is a fantastic dancer, you can help but watch her, she had a ton of energy.....Way to go Susan, Im still a fan!!!!
I recently found out the truth about the Cowsills. Apparently by all accounts the father was a horrendiously abusive alchoholic. The family survived and performed despite this. Thank you Cowsills!!!
I turn 64 tomorrow. I saw this on TV when I was 10 years old, and fell in love with Susan. I intend to make a fool out of myself tomorrow and sing this song at work.
This great Cowsills came from my neck of the woods New england saw most of their performances on tv in the sixties and listened over the radio they just don't make music like this anymore.
How friggin adorable. Lots of comments saying how bad it was-I'd like to see the people saying that to get on stage,on live tv,at that age,& do half as good.
If she didn't love the song and/or the way her voice was changing, she sure fooled me. Maybe we gotta get down to NOLA and ask her ourselves. She's still rocking, God Bless Her.
Lol, i hear ya. Susan is a good friend and is one of the best singers I’ve ever heard. Her voice is powerful, precise, soulful, nuanced, gorgeous, and still gives me goosebumps.
You obviously didn't see Michael Jackson Foster sylvers Donny osmond Frankie lymon Stevie wonder Ralph tresvant Leif Garrett All had confidence and swag as kids
I love this performance, Lord knows they would have had 20-30 more hits with a real manager. Water under the bridge. The Cowsills were and are and always will be totally Groovy. May God bless you Susan and your whole family.
lemurian chick I think the distorted rough sound was because of the poor audio or something, but not because of Susan`s voice, as she has a far much smoother voice than this and maybe even it was made to sound that way hmm?? (beatles) abstract ?sort of sound ,I da no
selleck2u She clearly had charisma, didn't she?. I am surprised she didn't ride that teeybopper wave into the '70s. She reminds me of Kristy McNichol with her cute tomboyishness...
OMG !!! The last time I saw this was on the day it was broadcast in 1970. I had a huge crush on Susie as we were/are the exact same age. Begged Mom to get me the records...and would get to read about her and the family band and see pics in my older sisters "tiger beat" magazines. A thousand thoughts and memories have just been summoned up and wash over me like the hot butter poured over movie popcorn when it was still the real stuff. It was a golden time of innocence, full of promise and future never far over the horizon that could be anything we wished it to be. Does anyone think that the children of today will look back upon this time 30 years from now and have just cause to say how great it was ? Can there even be any comparison ?
Didn't know them or their family at all, only knew the song about the flower girl. Had no idea she sounded a little like she sounded a little like Janis Joplin
![The Cowsills • “Indian Lake” • LIVE 1968 [Reelin' In The Years Archive]](/img/n.gif)
Little Susan was always a cutie! Haven’t heard Cowsills music in 50 years. Brought a smile to my face!!
They're still out there as a trio- Bill, Paul and Susan. There are clips on UA-cam and still worth the listen.
You’re in for a treat. They’re still rockin’!!!
Interesting how this just popped up on my feed. I just turned 64 today!
Susan will be 64 May 20, 2023. Meanwhile, she still looks like she's in her early 40's. Also, she's still very talented.
i can sense anniversary.
6 days to go
Okay seriously,what are the chances I find this video on the exact day it ends up happening
Happy Birthday, Susan
Hope her Birthday went well 😊
No, she looks 64
Susan is amazing on this. I'm completely charmed!
Another take over by little Susie, just delightful !!
Just like her brothers laughing at their sister when she messed up but Susan recovered and did a great job. Loved this band back in the day.
She had her microphone cut out, she never messed up.
@@omcdude64 when her mic cut out she kind of forgot the lyrics, but no big deal. John Lennon forgot the lyrics often!
I’m listening to this April 29, 2024. Susan is 64yo for 1 more month. I’m 64yo until August. Happy Birthday to Susan.
I am as well..She is awesome.
73 in October. Good Grief...
but she looks closer to 30.
It’s weird- I’m 64 now and just saw the Cowsills at the Woodstock fair in Connecticut last week. Susan was pretty funny. She’s 59 and looks great! They still sound amazing! I have to admit I was more into the Beatles and The Beach Boys at the time but now I appreciate their music! They joked on stage how they were going to get through an hour of music when they only had 4 hits. Then one of them said “by singing other people’s hits”. They were all Hilarious throughout the show. Nice family fun!
I remember them on a talk show with so called tough guy Mickey Spillane...( It might have been Virginia Graham)... Spillane ran his mouth about rotten no good mother's who let their kids have ling hair... One of the older brothers jumped up to give him a beat down...yelling at him for speaking bad of his mother..he had to be held back ...I was in awe!! I was bullied and beaten at home so to me he worthy of idol worship!!! What a cool loyal loving guy...I saw the documentary sometime back..I hate what their old man did!
Play the instruments- yes ! Badly- yes!
@@scottshaw5271really? do you recall what the brother was saying, or how everyone else around him reacted?
@@mmvvmm Just a great guy having his mother's back and not tolerating disrespect...there were no punches thrown .. just teenage anger and rightly so ...I was abused so this was refreshing for me then
Happy 60th birthday today Susan. Four more years to 64.
The UA-cam video of Susan Cowsill on The Dean Martin Show singing with him is really good too.
Susan, 64 is almost here! Wow, I remember seeing this on TV! Your 3 months ahead of me to 64, and yes, we still need you! 😉
Loved this group in the 1960's and love them even more today!!!
Well Suzie, I was smitten with you when I was nine years old. Now I'm 64. Keep on a rockin' musically as long as you can!
Susan is TOPS! She performs as if she'd been around many years. Back then due to time constraints, a singer(s) would sometimes be asked to shorten a song. This may have happened here. Makes it harder when you only practice for it. Also, the date of this show was Aug. 25, 1970.
Mike Douglas had everyone on the show , this is just great
In 1968 the cowsills came to vietnam to entertain us.i remember one soldier from my unit went to see them.
Leonel Quintanilla thanks for sharing. Saludos desde Argentina.
Thank you for your service, and making it back from a war they wouldn't let you win. Sorry so late. Stay safe..
Hey Leonel, thank you for doing what you did appreciate it.
And one of non-singing Cowsills actually served in Nam
@@tats5880, If by “they” you mean the Vietnamese people then you are correct; otherwise, whoever “they” is wouldn’t let the French win after 30 years of war either. As the Vietnamese say, the American war in Vietnam was the U.S.’s longest war (at least until Afghanistan), but it was Vietnam’s shortest. Perhaps a war of attrition by a foreign power on someone else’s native soil in their bid for self-determination and independence in which they will never concede defeat is simply unwinnable.
We love you Susan and the Cowsills! Bad audio here, but still great! Love when she goes over to the other guests, too cute! This amazes me even more knowing the horrific conditions you grew up with, apparently a truly disgusting and abusive father. I don't know how you survived it, but you all did, America loves you!
Susan was so talented I Can't Take My Eyes Off for watching her and listen to her beautiful voice
She still is talented.
Love the Cowsills seeing them next month !
Susan, and the guys still performing, still looks and sounds great. She has amazing charisma. Anyone remotely interested should check out their new album “Rhythm of the World.” Some great, and different, songs there that they wrote, with plenty of their hallmark harmonies and melodies.
Not a hope in hell I would have been able to do that at her age. Highly talented.
Susan will be 64 in one week !, exciting stuff
what a voice..sounds very mature..good band too..very talented
I used to crack on the Cowsills when I was a kid. It wasn't my sort of music, but as a grown-up musician I have to appreciate the raw talent they all had and admire their fortitude in the face of the struggles they endured as a family. Saw the Family Band movie last month and my heart broke retrospectively for all of them.
Tim I was the same way, and Im a Led Zeppelin fan. They were so talented. Susan was so cute and still is.
What is the Family Band movie about?
Yes indeed a real tragic story indeed🙏
@@amerocker it’s awesome check it out am sure what hell they went they with their horrible dad! He killed this band!
@@cathsalazar9930 'Family Band: The Cowsills Story' is the title. I just read a _Variety_ review. I'll watch it if I can find it on a library dvd or can find it free online. Thank you.
It is amazing how many bands covered the Beatles.
The look on Mel Tormes face when Susan goes over to them is just priceless. Other than forgetting about where the lyrics went, she just killed it. Great performance!
Wow, Susan belts it out! My first 45 was "Hair".
A very, very talented family!! Susan was such a cutie here!!
64 will be here in 3Mo time flies when you're having fun. This was a great tune because the Cowsills were a favorite group of mine.
This reminds me of my nan, as a kid, me & my brother visited her every weekend and wed just listen to old songs all night, just me, my brother, my nan & my great nan, such beautiful memories, love this song ♡
And Susan Cowsill is about to reach 64....wow time passes fast!
Thanks for this priceless upload, a true treasure from the vaults of time. Susan was amazing, as always. This is an interesting opportunity to see what they looked like when they dumped Mom for a day. It's too bad they weren't able to go on from this on their own, now that they were older, and make albums with this lineup, with Susan as lead singer. It would have been interesting.
They actually did that a few times over the years. Susan is still beyond amazing. ❤️
Thank you so much !!
I think Susan had her own style of singing, and performing. It was cool how she was allowed to do so many solos at a young age. This was truly a family thing. They all were so talented.
I love the Vaudeville dancing she does
Susie has a great voice. Im re-discovering the cowsills in 2020. 🌷🌼💐🌻⚘🌹🎶🎶🎶🎸🎸🎸💕💕🌞
me, too!! We used to play "Cowsills" in my friends basement, and we all fought over who got to be Susie!
If you are discovering, Its Susan, not Susie
That's really cute , I love these old clips
Talent, personality, poise, charm. Complete package.
She is now 64 & still awesomely wonderful & adorable! ❤
A very underrated group. Their harmonies were great. I can remember a time in my life, when I would have been embarrassed to admit I liked this stuff, in front of my peers. I was more of an acid rock kind of guy, back in the day. But as I've gotten older, I have to admit, I didn't do myself any favors by turning my nose up at this music. I enjoy intricate harmonies. Hell, I love The Andrews Sisters, and more recent (but still a decade old), The Puppini Sisters. You Tube their Jilted Again video, and be pleasantly surprised and thoroughly entertained.
+littleol me I'm with you on almost every sentiment you have said here. I am 56 and fell in love with the Andrews Sisters while watching "Buck Privates" on the Saturday morning oldies channel. As for Susan, she and I are the same age and I had a killer crush on her. Still do.
PoppaBlue59 Yes, Susan was a little cutie back in the day. Of course I didn't realize it at the time, as I was 6 years older than she was and never seen any of the performances until the advent of the internet. But I did listen to a couple of their songs and loved them. Indian Lake, and The Wind the Rain and Other Things.Oh, I can't forget Hair. Susan is much older now, of course, but I still like her. And about the Andrews Sisters, I believe I discovered them the same way you did. They were from Minneapolis, if I'm not mistaken. My home town.
I wore that badge proudly. I knew the image it projected and was even ostracized by a few of my so called “friends”. Screw em I says, screw em.
littleol me love this
littleol me Welcome to the club! Peace!
i had never seen this. probably my favorite band in that era. thanks for sharing
Wow when I turned 64 last year I never dreamed I would hear that song they did it great great memories growing up I had a cowsills record remember those
Yes, Agreed. I’m 69 now and as a kid listening to the Beatles sing it I thought turning 64 was in another life , now watching Susan sing it brings back wonderful memories growing up in the 60’s and 70’s.
how could anyone not enjoy such innocence
Susan always had great charisma.
Played live with all the flaws on actual instruments. A rare thing these days.
It's more common these days then when it was in the 60s. Everyone mimed or sang to a backing track.
@@newowned Yeah, but there are hardly any real musicians left...
@@stephenstone8480 there are many, many times more 'real' musicians now then there were in the 1960s. Just because you don't like the music they play doesn't make them not 'real musicians'.
@@newowned Would you say that again - and this time, please speak through the Auto-Tune. 😃
You gotta love Susan 2:11 she completely forgets the lyrics, but keeps pushing through
Embarrassing
Only 11 and already a pro. She pushed through quite well.
@@aperezto no not really 💀
Omg too cute.
Good god, she’s a bright light. Real-deal talent wrapped in a package of pure, authentic charm.
Well well well Susan guess what? You made it! Hope you read this because I'd like to be a little bit early to wish you a Happy (3X) Birthday coming up. I'd love for you to film a remake of this video. 🙂 Mine is a week after yours. XXOO
I loved it 😊
amazing!!!!
OMG my childhood crush in all her glory! Oh to be 7 in 1970 and witness this.
She was great in The Contential Drifters
Love this band!
This is magnificent
And now in 2023, she's 64
Wow.....I remember !
Today’s the day. Susan Cowsill is 64.
I loved this band and Susan Cowsill! Precious! I love her song "Tangerine"
And THAT was just the BEGINNING.....
What a pro!..Every musician flubs at some point, it's how you bounce back that matters! She's great
Pretty good poise for being only 11!
I love how Mike Douglas mouths the words "I love you" to Susan when she goes jaunting over to him and grabs his hand while staring right into his eyes. His reaction is priceless.
i just saw Mike Douglas in the movie Gator with Burt Reynolds
Nowadays he would be branded a perv.
@@thismycollection334 nawwwww
I love her raspy voice. It's awesome. It's all a matter of taste I suppose. I think her voice has character. And it's cute.
Janis Joplin.
Actually her voice is beautiful, it's really bad audio that made her sound "raspy". Thats not her real voice.
I always have loved her so much ❤️.
Ugh 🤮
@@clasystems not even close r u 4 real? 🤮👎🤬
Susan would be around the age of 11 during this interview and performance.
To this present day she’s as cute as she can be.
A wonderful sister to her talented Cowsill brothers, a wonderful wife and mother.
She has a pretty mature voice for such a young person!
She was S/A by her father from a young age
Never heard of them thanks to UA-cam I found them. It popped on my UA-cam page wit Susan singing with Dean Martin. Need to check them out Now. Susan was just couple years Younger then I am. Thanks UA-cam
They are on the Happy together tour NOW and they sound awesome!
you can tell Mike Douglas and Mel Torme really liked it a lot
Susan had a decent voice but she was or is a fantastic dancer, you can help but watch her, she had a ton of energy.....Way to go Susan, Im still a fan!!!!
I recently found out the truth about the Cowsills. Apparently by all accounts the father was a horrendiously abusive alchoholic. The family survived and performed despite this. Thank you Cowsills!!!
Wonderful to see they overcame this obstacle with the strong persona of their Mom!
@Brandon Greenleaf 😂
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I was one of a million little boys who had a crush on Susan in those days. Turns out that she and I were born a couple of weeks apart in May 1959.
saw the show last night fantastic las vegas nv
I turn 64 tomorrow. I saw this on TV when I was 10 years old, and fell in love with Susan.
I intend to make a fool out of myself tomorrow and sing this song at work.
She is just AMAZING!! Incredible performer and fantastic voice and charisma for a little girl!
Great group of singers
Miss the good ole days.
This great Cowsills came from my neck of the woods New england saw most of their performances on tv in the sixties and listened over the radio they just don't make music like this anymore.
How friggin adorable. Lots of comments saying how bad it was-I'd like to see the people saying that to get on stage,on live tv,at that age,& do half as good.
If she didn't love the song and/or the way her voice was changing, she sure fooled me. Maybe we gotta get down to NOLA and ask her ourselves. She's still rocking, God Bless Her.
Susan Cowsill was, and still is, a Doll!
ahem. Really a doll?
@@iworkforme : Are you unkind most days or just on this thread? Easy to be an ass when you can hide behind a UA-cam alias. Geeeez.
@@iworkforme yeah, really....dikhead
A mini Janis Joplin
You don't see too many kids with that much self-confidence.
Lol, i hear ya. Susan is a good friend and is one of the best singers I’ve ever heard. Her voice is powerful, precise, soulful, nuanced, gorgeous, and still gives me goosebumps.
You obviously didn't see Michael Jackson
Foster sylvers
Donny osmond
Frankie lymon
Stevie wonder
Ralph tresvant
Leif Garrett
All had confidence and swag as kids
@@terry7375 Well if it's that obvious that I didn't see Donny & Marie then I'm satisfied with my online persona.
@@terry7375 Didn't turn out too well for at least three of those.
@@opentrunk shortening your list doesn't bode well
I love this performance, Lord knows they would have had 20-30 more hits with a real manager. Water under the bridge. The Cowsills were and are and always will be totally Groovy. May God bless you Susan and your whole family.
❤️❤️❤️
If they had stayed popular for a few more years, until she was about 14 or 15, she would have been the new fave rave among teenage boys.
Six months from now, Susan will be 64.
awesome! even her mistakes are precious
she sounds great
Dean Dixon I agree. I really think she has an interesting voice, even for a kid. She kind of reminds me of Melanie slightly.
Dean Dixon Real live television, no lip synching.
lemurian chick I think the distorted rough sound was because of the poor audio or something, but not because of Susan`s voice, as she has a far much smoother voice than this and maybe even it was made to sound that way hmm?? (beatles) abstract ?sort of sound ,I da no
selleck2u She clearly had charisma, didn't she?. I am surprised she didn't ride that teeybopper wave into the '70s. She reminds me of Kristy McNichol with her cute tomboyishness...
TALENT.
I LOVED SUSAN WHEN I FIRST SAW HER ON THE ED SULLIVAN SHOW AND I STILL LIKE HER TODAY!!!!!
OMG !!! The last time I saw this was on the day it was broadcast in 1970. I had a huge crush on Susie as we were/are the exact same age.
Begged Mom to get me the records...and would get to read about her and the family band and see pics in my older sisters "tiger beat" magazines. A thousand thoughts and memories have just been summoned up and wash over me like the hot butter poured over movie popcorn when it was still the real stuff. It was a golden time of innocence, full of promise and future never far over the horizon that could be anything we wished it to be. Does anyone think that the children of today will look back upon this time 30 years from now and have just cause to say how great it was ? Can there even be any comparison ?
She sang the same verse 3 times,..lol,...the brothers are smiling about it....the show must go on!
She was so cute I didn't even notice that! 😮
Didn't know them or their family at all, only knew the song about the flower girl. Had no idea she sounded a little like she sounded a little like Janis Joplin
Paul was so cute!
This kid is adorable. No wonder America love this lady.
Susan's almost there now...and still as cute as she's ever been 😎
I will be there tomorrow. My gosh how the time has flashed by.
Susan is almost 64 now
She’s 64 today!
Adorable 💕🎼
She is great!!!
She'll be 64 yrs old in 2023
Back when rainbows were just rainbows. 🥰
Yes! ❤
Damn. 64 got here just way too soon.
Redoubt South she's only 58
I'll be 64 Come June 2019,
@@horseyhorselips3501 I just turned 64 and it came far too soon.
How about 68,?
@@horseyhorselips3501 I'll be 65 June 9th n it's all went by so fast!!!