The Cowsills Podcast

Hello everyone. So the story is our bass player "brother" Robby Scharf going back to "Global" days was going through some old boxes and found a few VHS tapes from our club days, specifically a set at Club Lingerie in 1991. We thought it would be a lot of fun to go back 35 years and share this very rare performance by the group of songs from "Global".

Well we had a little snafu with our schedule so a planned guest had to postpone to next week.  Doug Kistner (look him up) will be with us next week so in the meantime here's a short visit to bridge us to next week's episode. Hope everyone had a great St. Patrick's Day!

Hello everybody we are here after our fantastic weekend in Havre de Grace, Maryland.  We hooked up with Phlash Phelps from Sirius XM and we take you through the whole fun weekend.  Hope everyone is doing great out there and we will see you in a city near you because we are coming to a lot of them this summer...66 to be precise. Enjoy the visit!et hectic.It’s a rare, unfiltered glimpse into the engine behind the show—and we think you’ll love this unique perspective.

We're back!!! We got stuck in the snow in New York City so we had to let last week's episode run a second week.  We kept it short since that was a long one.  We visit with Eddie Mooney of the Fortunes who will be joining us on the Happy Together Tour this summer.  We are up to 66 cities for that tour - a record.  Enjoy the episode we are heading to Havre de Grace for a very interactive weekend with some wonderful folks from the True North Project!!

If Anyone Out There Remembers The Great Family Show "my Three Sons" Or Even If You Don't, You Will Love Listening In On Our Visit With Stanley Livingston Who Played Chip Douglas The Youngest On The "sons". Of Course Stan Shares A Story That Goes Way Beyond "My Three Sons" So We Hope You Enjoy The Episode.

Welcome everyone.  We had a great visit with each other talking about this and that.  No guest but plenty coming. We hope you enjoy this week's visit and see you again next week with another great guest...either Stanley Livingston from "My Three Sons" or Eddie Mooney (not MONEY!!) from the Fortunes so stay tuned!

Hello everyone.  Our guest this week is Kathy Garver, "Cissy" from "Family Affair" and much more as you can imagine.  We apologize for the sound quality Kathy did what she could to fix it but you can make it people...it's not too bad.  Enjoy Kathy's story and we will see everyone again next week.

Hi everyone....Omnivore Recordings released our album "The Cocaine Drain" recently and we have our guest, Dennis Castanares, visiting with us today. Dennis was a member of The Cowsills during the recording of The Cocaine Drain. Dennis shares his memories of those sessions and working with us and producer Chuck Plotkin.  Great stories hope you enjoy the episode.

Hi everyone.  Well you may or may not know Susan is on the Big Easy cruise doing her solo thing (she's our Neil Young) so Paul and I take over the airwaves without her.  Plenty of guests coming. Hope you all enjoy the visit!

The holidays threw everything into overdrive, so this week there’s no guest—but instead, you get something even better: a real behind-the-scenes look at how this show actually runs. We’re taking you inside one of our latest team meetings to break down the logistics of life on the road, the challenges we face, and how we keep everything moving when things get hectic.It’s a rare, unfiltered glimpse into the engine behind the show—and we think you’ll love this unique perspective.

Hi everyone and WELCOME BACK! We are back in the saddle our studio is back up and running and please enjoy our first 2026 visit with our very own cousin Fred Presley singer, songwriter, whistleblower, systems thinker, City Manager, unbelievable . Great story great person.

Merry Christmas everyone YES we are Christmas people so from us to all of you Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. So we had a little problem and the iPad we produce our episodes on went down and we are backlogged to resurrecting such studio so we're going to put an oldie goldie up to get us through the holidays and we'll check in with everybody after the new year which is right there as we know so hope your 2025 was fantastic and looking towards a even more fantastic 2026!  Enjoy the holidays!

We've received a lot of feedback about what a great great visit we had with Leland Sklar and what a great story he shared.  I would imagine there's not one person reading this that can say they were seriously mistaken for Santa Claus by a four year old.  We're just having a nice visit this week hope you enjoy the commentary lots of guests coming stay tuned

Hello everybody this week is such a special treat because we get to have a visit with the great renowned bass player Leland Sklar.  Leland has played bass for Phil Collins, Linda Ronstadt, James Taylor and too many others to mention.  You've seen him everywhere ...the Bearded Wonder. It's a long episode but there was a lot to cover and it's all fascinating and grade A material ...just a fantastic story hope you enjoy it.

Hello all ... We hope you all have a great Thanksgiving.  Please enjoy our visit with 20-something '60's icon specialist Kit Frascella and you'll have to just listen to the episode to see what that means!  Enjoy your holiday wherever you are.

We've had so many recent guests with fantastic stories we decided to visit each other this week. Hope you all have a Happy Thanksgiving and here come the holidays!

Hello everybody welcome to our episode with guest Mark Lester.  Mark played "Oliver" in the great 1968 musical and has a great story to share.  So sit back and enjoy our visit. Susan gave up Davy Jones for this kid so he is something!

We thought it would be fun to have another sit down with Artie Kornfeld who's way more than the Cowsills and way more than Woodstock. More guests coming enjoy!

Hey everybody we hope you're all having a great autumn we had to let an episode go a couple of weeks due to travel situations but we hope you enjoy our episode ...got a lot of guests coming like Mark Lester, Mark Hudson (remember the Hudson Brothers?) and another visit with Artie Kornfeld so stay tuned for more!

Thank you everyone for your continuing support! Our wannahave guest, Mark Lester, is still in Italy so we're gonna wait for his return to a more manageable Time Zone to book. In the meantime let's have a visit!

WORTH THE WAIT!  Johnny Whitaker is WAAAYYYY more than that cute little kid on "Family Affair".  You will be amazed....and what a great guy.  We have to say this podcast has opened up so many avenues to so many people with such amazing histories. We hope you enjoy this one as much as we did.

Well folks it finally happened.  We apparently experienced a technical difficulty and our guest, Johnny Whitaker, couldn't make it. So Johnny will be with us next week so we can do more than just talk about him in the meantime enjoy a short visit and we'll see you next week.

Hi everyone hope all is well as autumn approaches.  Just some ramblings today to pass some time.  Next week we have Johnny Whitaker from the "Family Affair " TV show. Have a great week!

Lenie Colacino spent the summer with us singing on the Hapoy Together tour with Jay and the Americans.  Of course we found out that Lenie is way more than just a background singer and, in fact, has his own absolutely amazing musical history and journey and he shares that with us including his run as Paul McCartney in "Beatlemania" on Broadway.  We hope you enjoy this episode we sure did!

We were alerted to a Facebook post by the Evans Family Band holding a sign up asking to meet the Cowsills and voila!  We have this week's guest and it is indeed the Evans Family Band. You should google them and listen before you hear from them in this episode. They are simply remarkable.  Sit back and enjoy this one what a cute super talented family!

Hello everyone this is our final episode from the summer tour we will get back to normal now we had such a blast. We hope you've enjoyed the tour episodes we know there were some technical issues and time issues but all in all it was a good time so we look forward to more guests in the future starting next week and enjoy our little visit here.eng||Hello everyone this is our final episode from the summer tour we will get back to normal now we had such a blast. We hope you've enjoyed the tour episodes we know there were some technical issues and time issues but all in all it was a good time so we look forward to more guests in the future starting next week and enjoy our little visit here.

What a great visit we all had with Paul Petersen, who played Jeff on the Donna Reed Show, but continued through his life becoming way more than that. We hope you enjoy our visit with this childhood star who did so much for so many of us later in his life.

Hi everybody from the tour bus during the show.  We've had some adventures out here we'll say that much.  Just a short visit while we resettle in to the tour.  Next week we'll have a super guest, Paul Peterson, from the Donna Reed Show but he is way more than that and we'll get in to that next week.  Hope everyone's summer is moving along wonderfully.  See you next week!!!

Hello everybody we are off of our bus and in a hotel room for today's episode.  The bus had another issue that had to be resolved immediately. Our guest today is Danny Kurtzman please Google him get ready for the episode you will be amazed at his story.  We're back on schedule in Nashville hope everyone's doing great out there having a great summer!

Well, hello everybody yes we're late but the bus broke down. We take you through that during the episode.  We're coming up on our second break. It's a short one. It begins Monday and we go to Friday Harbor for a private gig and then right back out. Enjoy, we will be back and reorganized soon!

Hi everyone we are on our very first Happy Together summer tour break and we share a few insights as to what our break looks like hope you enjoy the episode see you next week!

Hello everyone we are on our first break from the Happy Together Tour and reporting from our isolated locations. We take you through the first leg of the tour, go through the upcoming events for this year and just kind of kick back for a short visit. Next week look for a special guest from The King family. Google them!!

Hi everyone we are out here on the Happy Together Tour this will be our second show from the road and we are trying to share as much as we can with the technology at hand so some of this looks and is disjointed but we're having a great time.  The tour is as popular as ever.  We are amazed!

Well everyone we are heading out for our 11th Happy Together Summer Tour tomorrow.  In this episode we kind of fill everyone in on that escapade and what it takes for some of us to pull that off.  Plus a little of this and that.  We'll continue our episodes out  on the road with everyone so see you out there.  Next episode will be from either the bus or a dressing room somewhere in America!!!  We love the Happy Together Tour!!

Well everyone we are heading out for our 11th Happy Together Summer Tour tomorrow.  In this episode we kind of fill everyone in on that escapade and what it takes for some of us to pull that off.  Plus a little of this and that.  We'll continue our episodes out  on the road with everyone so see you out there.  Next episode will be from either the bus or a dressing room somewhere in America!!!  We love the Happy Together Tour!!

Hi everyone, we had personal situation arise that prevented last week's episode from appearing on time. Here's a short visit as we all start preparing for the Happy Together summer tour! Surprise visitor even! Hope everyone has a great week love you all!!

We just got back from a trio swing through the midwest (Nebraska and Kansas) opening for the Association and what a blast we had. Enjoy our journey through the weekend with you as we touch on this and that. Enjoy, and thanks for being there!!

We are heading off to Kearney, Nebraska and Hutchinson, Kansas for a couple of trio shows.  You'll hear about "The Cocaine Drain Album" release date and future product discussion.  Enjoy.  Next week a member of the Famous King Family will be our guest so jump on things and Google "The King Family"...what a history!!!

Hi Everyone We Are Gearing Up For Our Shows In Kearney, Nebraska And Hutchinson, Kansas May 2nd And 3rd.  We Fill You In On That And A Lot More With A Good Sibling Visit On The Podcast.  So Sit Back And Relax And We'll Take You Down Some Interesting Roads Involving Gigs, Advances, Dad, And Other Things.

Hello everyone welcome to this week's visit on the Cowsills Podcast with none other than guests Vicki Peterson and John Cowsill.  You will not believe what these two are up to.  You can hear all about their new album coming out, "Long After The Fire", this Friday the 18th.  We had a blast catching up with our brother and sister-in-law hope you all enjoy this!

Hey everybody everywhere in podcastland!  We've been on a roll just visiting each other and going over this and that.  Next week we'll have our brother John on and get caught up with all that he has going on which is a lot!  Hope to see some of you in Kearney, Nebraska on May 2nd and Hutchinson, Kansas on May 3rd.  We're opening for the Association there we love those guys!!!!

Hi everybody we are back from the cruise and it was fanTAStic!  Thank you to all of you who visited and shared your stories and experiences with us while cruising the Atlantic.  We're back and getting ready for Vegas this Friday at the Golden Nugget so maybe see some of you there!

We are out somewhere on the Atlantic ocean folks.  Probably in our first port, Jamaica, on the Flower Power cruise. We hope you enjoy our "cruise" episode we recorded before we left port.  See you next week back on dry land!

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Hey everybody we just got back from Havre de Grace, Maryland and one of the funnest gigs ever.  We met Phlash Phelps and hung out friday night with him at dinner event.  We had a  blast so sit back and give a listen.  Love you all!!!

Hi everyone. We know this one is late and other times we have missed the Wednesday deadline for new episodes but sometimes stuff happens. Anyway, no guest this week just the ramblings of 3 siblings who have a lot to say about nothing so hope you enjoy the episode see you next week on time!

Hey everyone we're still on a high after two episodes with Artie Kornfeld so this week we decided no guest, take a deep breath, and fill folks in on what's happening with The Cowsills.  We cover lots of territory hope you enjoy the episode we certainly enjoyed doing it.  See you all soon.  Remember, just go to YouTube, type in the Cowsills Podcast and you are off and running with 166 episodes up on demand.  That's called a library folks!!

We had such a great visit with Artie Kornfeld last week but we never got to touch on Woodstock, the true legacy of this great man.  So this week we invited Artie back to have a very cool Woodstock conversation and what a tale it is. Enjoy this one folks it's a beauty!!

Well folks it only took 164 episodes to get to one of the most important figures in the history of The Cowsills and here he is.  To put it bluntly without Artie Kornfeld there would have never been a famous musical family called The Cowsills on any charts anywhere no matter how good we were.  Artie was the key to it all.  Artie Kornfeld is way more than his Woodstock legacy indicates and The Cowsills were an early success for this amazing artist in his own right.  Sit back and listen to this rock historian talk about a lot of this 'other stuff' - in fact we got to talking about so much stuff we never got to Woodstock....so next week we will have 'Artie Kornfeld-the Woodstock episode'....enjoy!!

One man, one voice, one guitar... Big sound!'. That describes singer-songwriter Hal Bruce everybody he is a one-man, multi-decade, singer songwriter with an amazing history and one of the most amazing repertoires out there. He actually once performed a live medley of 214 Beatle songs without stopping...yes it included #9.  Enjoy the visit everyone!!!