# "I Think I Love You" by Partridge Family - other songs like this? What style? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 5, 2011, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-i-love-you-by-partridge-family-other-songs-like-this-what-style/584447 "2011-06-05T22:12:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![F.U.Shakespeare](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aca169/32.png) [@F.U.Shakespeare](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/F.U.Shakespeare)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2011, 10:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-i-love-you-by-partridge-family-other-songs-like-this-what-style/584447/21 "2011-06-06T10:37:22Z")
Another song (from 1968) with harpsichord: “Love is Blue” by Paul Mauriat. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2011, 10:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-i-love-you-by-partridge-family-other-songs-like-this-what-style/584447/22 "2011-06-06T10:48:35Z")
The first one I thought of: [Golden Brown](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7R7q1lSZfs) by The Stranglers ---
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2011, 11:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-i-love-you-by-partridge-family-other-songs-like-this-what-style/584447/23 "2011-06-06T11:20:49Z")
Another Beatles harpsichord song: “Piggies” ---
**Author:** ![sciurophobic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cab0a1/32.png) [@sciurophobic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sciurophobic)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2011, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-i-love-you-by-partridge-family-other-songs-like-this-what-style/584447/24 "2011-06-06T15:13:00Z")
There’s a harpsichord in the Stone Poneys’ cover of _Different Drum_. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Moto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9de0a6/32.png) [@Mr.Moto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Moto)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2011, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-i-love-you-by-partridge-family-other-songs-like-this-what-style/584447/25 "2011-06-06T15:33:50Z")
For a lot of people the first time they heard a harpsichord was when they saw Lurch playing one on _The Addams Family_. ---
**Author:** ![Argent\_Towers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e8c25b/32.png) [@Argent\_Towers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Argent_Towers)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2011, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-i-love-you-by-partridge-family-other-songs-like-this-what-style/584447/26 "2011-06-06T16:07:19Z")
It just now occurred to me that even Eminem, in [The Real Slim Shady,](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGk2qmDmvT8) made use of the harpsichord sound. Whether it was actually his idea or the studio people I have no idea, but it’s very distinctive and I thought so when the song first came out. (I must have played it a thousand times!) ---
**Author:** ![cjepson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a9adbd/32.png) [@cjepson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cjepson)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2011, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-i-love-you-by-partridge-family-other-songs-like-this-what-style/584447/27 "2011-06-06T16:31:39Z")
You would definitely want to check out “[In Another Land](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-rrSc0-Tyw)”, by the Rolling Stones (actually this is about the only Bill Wyman song the Stones ever did). ---
**Author:** ![An\_Gadai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@An\_Gadai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Gadai)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2011, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-i-love-you-by-partridge-family-other-songs-like-this-what-style/584447/28 "2011-06-06T16:35:44Z")
REM’s _Out Of Time_ album has baroque influences on display on it too, especially on songs like Half A World Away. ---
**Author:** ![Saltire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saltire/32/553_2.png) [@Saltire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saltire)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2011, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-i-love-you-by-partridge-family-other-songs-like-this-what-style/584447/29 "2011-06-06T17:50:06Z")
No harpsichord, but I’ve always felt that Ian Anderson’s flute makes most of Jethro Tull sound a bit medieval. ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2011, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-i-love-you-by-partridge-family-other-songs-like-this-what-style/584447/30 "2011-06-06T17:58:19Z")
> [@Mr.Moto](#): > > For a lot of people the first time they heard a harpsichord was when they saw Lurch playing one on _The Addams Family_. Absolutely! And I loved the sound: still do. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2011, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-i-love-you-by-partridge-family-other-songs-like-this-what-style/584447/31 "2011-06-06T18:47:09Z")
> [@Argent\_Towers](#): > > I recently have been very intrigued by the song [I Think I Love You](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-B0WCBz2mg&feature=player_detailpage#t=10s) by David Cassidy and the Partridge Family. Not to be pedantic – which means I’m about to be pedantic – but neither David Cassidy nor Shirley Jones wrote that song. Neither did Wes Farrell, to my surprise. It was written by Tony Romeo, who also wrote songs for Al Martino, The Cowsills, and The Everly Brothers. ---
**Author:** ![cjepson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a9adbd/32.png) [@cjepson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cjepson)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2011, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-i-love-you-by-partridge-family-other-songs-like-this-what-style/584447/32 "2011-06-06T19:57:10Z")
> [@Saltire](#): > > No harpsichord, but I’ve always felt that Ian Anderson’s flute makes most of Jethro Tull sound a bit medieval. Of course, their “Bouree” is a jazz treatment of an actual baroque piece (“Bourree in E minor”, by J. S. Bach). I think “To Cry You A Song” has a very baroque sounding riff, although it’s done in a hard rock style. ---
**Author:** ![brocks](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7feea3/32.png) [@brocks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brocks)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2011, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-i-love-you-by-partridge-family-other-songs-like-this-what-style/584447/33 "2011-06-06T20:06:31Z")
> [@sciurophobic](#): > > There’s a harpsichord in the Stone Poneys’ cover of _Different Drum_. I am so impressed with myself. I haven’t heard that song for like 20 years, and yet I can play it in my head and hear the part you’re talking about, clear as a bell. And the cello right after that. I never knew I could do that. My mom always said that everybody’s good at something. Glad I found out what I’m good at before I died, and not surprised at all to learn that it’s something next to useless. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2011, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-i-love-you-by-partridge-family-other-songs-like-this-what-style/584447/34 "2011-06-06T20:27:03Z")
Didn’t The Doors use a harpsichord sometimes? Can’t remember which song(s). ---
**Author:** ![An\_Gadai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@An\_Gadai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Gadai)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2011, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-i-love-you-by-partridge-family-other-songs-like-this-what-style/584447/35 "2011-06-06T20:38:49Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Didn’t The Doors use a harpsichord sometimes? Can’t remember which song(s). “Love Me Two Times” definitely did anyway. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2011, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-i-love-you-by-partridge-family-other-songs-like-this-what-style/584447/36 "2011-06-06T20:52:00Z")
I think that The Partidge Family used a harpsichord on more than just that one song. Doesn’t _Come On Get Happy_ start with one? I just checked YouTube and the version that’s up doesn’t, but I think the opening was cut. ---
**Author:** ![gwendee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/35a633/32.png) [@gwendee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gwendee)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2011, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-i-love-you-by-partridge-family-other-songs-like-this-what-style/584447/37 "2011-06-07T19:23:28Z")
Isn’t the melody of Paul Simon’s _American Tune_ heavily inspired by/related to a J.S. Bach melody? ---
**Author:** ![Argent\_Towers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e8c25b/32.png) [@Argent\_Towers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Argent_Towers)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2011, 5:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-i-love-you-by-partridge-family-other-songs-like-this-what-style/584447/38 "2011-12-09T05:33:56Z")
I’m bumping this thread because I’ve just recently discovered another great example of the baroque sound in a pop song. In this case, it’s [Do You Know What I Mean](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WMwenDs5U0) by Lee Michaels: a song that I have heard a billion times, but never noticed the harpsichord until just the other day. It’s most noticeable during the bridge [(1:19).](http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=4WMwenDs5U0#t=80s) There’s sort of a little harpichord solo underneath the organ and vocals. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2011, 5:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-i-love-you-by-partridge-family-other-songs-like-this-what-style/584447/39 "2011-12-09T05:57:13Z")
Procul Harum did this in a lot of their music. ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2011, 6:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-i-love-you-by-partridge-family-other-songs-like-this-what-style/584447/40 "2011-12-09T06:11:30Z")
Not the instrumentation, but the minor progressions remind me a lot of the works of Jacques Brel and other Francophone songwriters of the '60s. There’s also a taste of Eurovision pop in there. For contemporary harpiscord revival check out Vampire Weekend, particularly [Taxi Cab](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0jO_y2QMhI). ETA: and of course [M79](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTjwXwl_be8) for far more baroquosityness. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-i-love-you-by-partridge-family-other-songs-like-this-what-style/584447.md?page=1)