Bulletin Board (album)

1973 studio album by The Partridge Family

Bulletin Board

Studio album by

The Partridge Family

Released| October 1973
Genre| Rock, pop
Length| 30:42
Label| Bell
Producer| Wes Farrell
The Partridge Family chronology
| Crossword Puzzle
(1973)  | Bulletin Board
(1973)  | The World of the Partridge Family
(1974)

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Professional ratingsReview scores

Source| Rating
AllMusic|  [1]

Bulletin Board is the eighth and final studio album by The Partridge Family, released by Bell Records (catalog number 1137)[2] in October 1973. The album was recorded between July and September 1973.[3] Bulletin Board was the first Partridge Family album to fail to chart on Billboard's Top LP's chart.[4] "Looking for a Good Time" b/w "Money Money" was released as a single in November 1973 (catalog number Bell 45-414), but failed to chart. This was the last regular U.S. Partridge Family single.[5]

The album cover featured a handwritten track listing pinned to a bulletin board, as well as a "family" photograph and a memo detailing the show's new Saturday night time slot. According to the liner notes for the CD release, the album cover was created within only a few hours due to time constraints. While Wes Farrell is credited as producer on the album, in fact it was produced and arranged by John Bahler (also spelled as Bähler), a member of late-1960 pop group the Love Generation and, later, the Ron Hicklin Singers, several members of whom provided backing vocals on all of the Partridge Family albums. Bulletin Board is the only Partridge Family album recorded in a studio different from the preceding albums (which had all been recorded at Western Recorders, Studio 2 in Los Angeles).[6]

Reviewer Dave Thompson of AllMusic gave the album a rating of 3½ stars out of 5, claiming it was more representative of David Cassidy's solo material than the typical Partridge Family album: "the performances all lean a lot closer towards the Cassidy solo ideal – soft ballads, tight rockers – than the all-for-one harmonies and joy that characterized the Partridges' earlier releases."[7] Howard Pattow, a member of the Partridge Family tribute band Sound Magazine, states that "the music here is groovy and funky, a definite reflection of pop music's embrace of disco ... overall, the music on Bulletin Board is quite different from previous Partridge Family efforts ... [and] features musicians that had previously not appeared on a Partridge record."[3]

In September 2008 Collectors' Choice Music reissued the album on CD. Initially the disc was available exclusively through the company's website. The disc contains two bonus tracks: both sides of the Bones Howe-produced Shirley Jones single "Ain't Love Easy"/"Roses in the Snow", originally released in October 1972.[8]

## Track listing

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All tracks from the original album, except "Where Do We Go From Here", were featured in the fourth and final season of the TV show

Side oneNo.| Title| Writer(s)| Length

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1.| "Money Money"|

* Wes Farrell
* Danny Janssen
* Bobby Hart

| 2:31
2.| "Roller Coaster"| Mark James| 2:22
3.| "Lookin' for a Good Time"|

* Wes Farrell
* Danny Janssen
* Bobby Hart

| 2:12
4.| "Oh No Not My Baby"|

* Gerry Goffin
* Carole King

| 2:38
5.| "I Wouldn't Put Nothin' over on You"|

* Wes Farrell
* Danny Janssen
* Bobby Hart

| 2:51
6.| "Where Do We Go From Here?"| Mark James| 2:36

Side twoNo.| Title| Writer(s)| Length

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1.| "How Long Is Too Long"|

* Tom Bahler
* Tony Asher

| 3:41
2.| "I'll Never Get over You"| Tony Romeo| 2:59
3.| "Alone Too Long"|

* Mark James
* Cynthia Weil

| 3:10
4.| "I Heard You Singing Your Song"| Barry Mann| 2:38
5.| "That's The Way It Is with You"| Harriet Schock| 3:04
Total length:| 30:42

CD bonus tracksNo.| Title| Writer(s)| Length

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1.| "Ain't Love Easy" (solo track by Shirley Jones)| Carol Hall| 3:13
2.| "Roses in the Snow" (solo track by Shirley Jones)| Randy McNeill| 2:57
Total length:| 36:52

## Personnel

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Produced by Wes Farrell for Coral Rock Productions, Inc.

* Partridge Family vocals by Shirley Jones and David Cassidy
* Hal Blaine \- drums
* Max Bennett, Jim Hughart \- bass
* Larry Carlton, Richard Bennett, Ben Benay, Dean Parks \- guitar
* Chuck Findley, Tom Bahler - horns
* Lou McCreary, George Bohanon \- trombone
* Bill Perkins, Jackie Kelso, Bob Hardaway - saxophone
* Gary Coleman, Joe Porcaro \- percussion
* Michael Omartian, Larry Muhoberac \- keyboards
* John Bahler, Tom Bahler, Jackie Ward, Ron Hicklin \- backing vocals[3]

Bonus tracks produced by Bones Howe.

## Recording dates

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July 25, 1973:

* "Money, Money"
* "I'll Never Get Over You"
* "Alone Too Long"
* "Oh No Not My Baby"

July 26, 1973:

* "I Wouldn't Put Nothing Over On You"

September 4, 1973:

* "I Heard You Singing Your Song"
* "Roller Coaster"
* "Looking For A Good Time"
* "How Long Is Too Long"

September 5, 1973:

* "That's The Way It Is With You"
* "Where Do We Go From Here" [9]

## Notes

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1. ^ Thompson, Dave. Review at AllMusic. Retrieved 17 March 2020.
2. ^ Bulletin Board[usurped] at David Cassidy Downunder fansite.
3. ^ a b c Bulletin Board review by Howard Pattow from C'mon Get Happy, The Unofficial Website of The Partridge Family.
4. ^ Billboard.com [1]
5. ^ Singles[usurped] at David Cassidy Downunder fansite.
6. ^ Partridge Family Release Dates
7. ^ Allmusic [2]
8. ^ Amazon.com Editorial Review
9. ^ The Partridge Family Recording Sessions

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* Susan Dey
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* Brian Forster
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Studio albums|

* The Partridge Family Album
* Up to Date
* Sound Magazine
* A Partridge Family Christmas Card
* Shopping Bag
* The Partridge Family Notebook
* Crossword Puzzle
* Bulletin Board

Other albums|

* At Home with Their Greatest Hits
* The World of the Partridge Family
* Greatest Hits
* The Definitive Collection
* Come On Get Happy!: The Very Best of The Partridge Family

Singles|

* "I Think I Love You"
* "Doesn't Somebody Want to Be Wanted"
* "I'll Meet You Halfway"
* "I Woke Up in Love This Morning"
* "It's One of Those Nights (Yes Love)"
* "Breaking Up Is Hard to Do"
* "Looking Through the Eyes of Love"
* "Walkin in the Rain"

Animated series|

* Partridge Family 2200 A.D.

TV specials|

* Thanksgiving Reunion with The Partridge Family and My Three Sons
* Come On Get Happy: The Partridge Family Story

Related articles|

* Episodes
* Discography
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* The Cowsills
* Wes Farrell
* Rick Segall
* Goober and the Ghost Chasers
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