I’ll be shocked if anyone remembers this, much less can find a clip of it, but I’ve seen some first rate detective work here so I’ll give it a try.
I’m looking for an episode that was either the Partridge Family, possibly introducing the Bobby Sherman character in order to set up the spinoff BS show, or it could have actually been the BS show, but I feel like it was Partridge oriented.
Bobby was looking for a musical partner and one of the candidates was a sort of a rough looking hippy type guy. I’m picturing someone not super young, and I think they may have a had a moustache or Vandyke sort of beard going on, maybe a headband.
The part I’m really after is the song he wrote / performed. I believe the gist of the joke was that Bobby was looking for someone to write love ballads and this cat breaks out with this funky song that started off with something that I remember sounding like “holy moly Jones and Dean” (???) and there might have been a few “I love my lady” s or something similar.
I know this character was not Lionel, who would end up being the partner on the BS show, but the story line is probably how they introduced Lionel. I also feel like maybe they ended up using the lyrics of the weird song and toning it down, Partridge Family style.
This used to crack my brother and me up and I know he would get a huge kick out of it if I reminded him of it, but I can’t seem to find a reference to it anywhere.
Does this ring anyone’s bell at all? Many, many thanks in advance to anyone who can find anything.
He did appear on an episode of the Partridge Family, A Knight in Shining Armor. That was followed the next year by the show Getting Togetherwhere he played the same named character from the Partridge episode.
Wes Stern was Bobby’s partner on Getting Together. Bobby’s character appeared on TPF and the show spun off. Can’t remember the song you are thinking off. Bobby was rubbish at lyrics, good at music or vice versa and Lionel was the opposite. I had every Tiger Beat and 16 Magazine that had an article on Bobby Sherman… Sorry, you already know all this, but I to stroll down Memory Lane.
That had William Schallertin it (Patty Duke’s dad), I don’t think it led to anything else. To my surprise he’s still alive and did an episode of 2 Broke Girls last year.
The wonderful James Lileks actually turned up a copy of a comic book that promoted Bobby Sherman’s Getting Together show, scanned it and posted it on his website. JL’s commentary is hysterical. And good Lord, what a piece of dreck.
I haven’t read through this in a while, but you might find something useful in James Lileks’s section on Bobby Sherman and “Getting Together,” here. If nothing else, it’s a funny read.
My poor dad was the one that took me my cousin and best friend to see Bobby. I’m sure he felt like an idiot, LOL. I took a stuffed Snoopy autograph toy with me, hoping to get his autograph, but sadly did not… He did see me holding it up and yelled out “Hey Snoopy!” to me.
When I was working on the radio in Moscow, we once did a special in which a spot was devoted to the Partridge Family every night for a week. It must have been on Thursday or Friday when at my suggestion we snuck in a song by Bobby Sherman (the DJ had had the record in his collection for more than 20 years).
Almost at once, the phone lit up with a call from a woman who worked at the American Embassy: she had just come home after a shitty day, turned on the radio, and was immediately transported back to her youth when she heard Bobby singing. She spent the next five minutes thanking us profusely to doing the Partridge Family special and making her feel like a schoolgirl again.
Dunno how much other people would care about such a thing, but I felt really good for having helped to brighten someone else’s day!
I’m not sure what a stuffed Snoopy autograph toy would be, but a band (well, a cappella quartet) I like does a song called Sign My Snarling Doggie. I was at one of their concerts where someone brought a stuffed dog up to the stage and they all signed it.
