Greetings from Branson folks. We have had technical difficulties broadcasting from Branson as some of you are aware. We have had a fantastic 6-weeks of Christmas and shows every night with the Lettermen, Nadia Cole and Rick and Tara Thomas, our leaders....more about that later. We close this Friday so next week we will resume normal podcast operations with our weekly episodes. In the meantime, for this week enjoy a video visit from one of our earlier episodes with John Hall from Orleans. You may have missed it first time round or might want to watch John's video version of the episode....either way thanks for staying with us and see you next week!!!

Hello everybody this is a short episode from backstage at the Andy Williams Moon River Theater in Branson.... It's just before the show and during it so we thought we'd bring you in there with us. We know we've had some long episodes in the past so we hope you enjoy this short dressing room visit with us. Hey enjoy the production number of Jingle Bells....crazy fun being had!!!!

HELLO FROM BRANSON!!! Okay folks it's under way. Our Christmas show in Branson at the Andy Williams Moon River Theater opened Nov 1st and we've done 5 shows and we are loving it! We've included a performance of "Hair" from the show in this episode to give you an idea of things. We're broadcasting from Branson for the next 6 weeks. We'll try and bring you in on how all of this is done...this variety type musical theater kind of singing while you're in motion kind of thing. What a challenge!!! Hey even a couple of the Lettermen popped their heads in and said hi so you never know what's gonna happen here in Branson. We will keep you posted!"

Well folks it's just me and Paul tonight running the show while Susan is off becoming a Grandmother!!! We visit with the boys from Venice. A great band through the decades consisting of Kip Lennon (Kathy's of the Lennon Sisters brother!!) and his cousins brothers Michael and Mark Lennon. A true family affair was had and we had a blast of a visit. What a story of course because everyone has one and Venice is no different. 21 albums or more, known worldwide entering their 6th decade as entertainers and recording artists. You'll hear how we come upon the idea of putting together a concert featuring Venice, The Cowsills and The Bacon Brothers....a true family event. We will keep everyone posted on that!

The Lennon sisters were on over 400 TV and magazine covers, appeared on over 1,000 TV shows, had 21 albums, sang for seven U.S. Presidents, spent 13 years on The Lawrence Welk Show (which we watched every Saturday night as kids listening to them harmonize), 10 years with Andy Williams in and out of Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, and 23 years in Branson Missouri at The Andy Williams Moon River Theater, plus everything in between. We get to ask Kathy a lot about Branson where everyone knows we're headed. We hope you enjoy our visit with Kathy Lennon.

Tony Orlando - we love this man Tony Orlando and what a great great visit we had. If it goes on too long folks just take a break and two-part it. Whether he's talking about when he's 15 singing doo-wop with his group The 5 Gents or taking you through his years as a record executive and the unlikely calling he receives from the universe as to where and how he should proceed in life...you need to hear this story it is remarkable. He's basically under the wings of Don Kirschner, Carole King and Gerry Goffin, Cynthia Weil and Barry Mann - and nobody is famous yet but all will be. Enjoy this one folks because we could have talked for hours!

Well we guess if you've won 5 Grammys, been nominated for "Producer of the Year", engineering and producing every famous artist of his day along with running the forefront of sound and studio recording techniques and innovations it's probably hard to remember a couple of interactions with "The Cowsills" who were just struggling to stay relevant when our paths crossed twice in 1972 and 1978 ("The Cocaine Drain Album" and "Covered Wagon"). Watch us hold it together as we hear, "Uh, well no I don't remember".... "Covered Wagon" and "This Here Is A Love Song" and "Down In The Valley" was a 6-hour session at the Sound Factory in Hollywood late one week night with Val at the controls and we were thrilled. It was a great night of recording more isolated and remembered in our sparse history but buried in Vals incredible life and experiences. 100 gold and platinum albums. Val Garay is an icon and important historian for the history of rock and roll.

Bill Hanley formed Hanley Sound before sound systems were even thought of as important to live concerts. Bill was the sound man at Soundblast '66 at Yankee Stadium, Hanley sound ran the board during our 1968 "Indian Lake" tour. You will hear about the history of the innovations that Bill brought early in the game as audiences grew and concerts became bigger and needed bigger space and bigger sound right up to and including Woodstock. What a story. So fascinating. Bill even visited us at Halidon Hall in Newport during those early days of just trying to figure it all out.

Today we get back to updates and gripes and whatnot. Our guest is Freedy Johnston a great singer/songwriter whose history matches up with the best of them. We love hearing Freedy tell the story of walking through South by Southwest in Austin, Texas and stopping in his tracks when he hears Susan Cowsill singing and what that all led to. Freedy discusses his career and his brand new September 9th album release "Back On The Road To You" which features a great song with our sister Susan called 'The Power of Love.

Check out this interview on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/CowsillFan

WE'RE BACK!!!! Hi everyone we are back with live broadcasts, audio AND video now, and spent this episode catching everyone up on everything. Well not quite everything. One thing we wanted to mention for the umpteenth time but seemingly never enough is that Pledge Music pledgers will eventually receive everything they've ordered. If you just ordered the signed CD then those should be going out sometime in October (we have to sign 550 of them!!!!). If you ordered the CD and Vinyl album then you will receive your order when the Vinyl comes out (on Record Store Day which will be either April 15th or 21st). Orders will only be sent when items are available to fill an order. We can't be sending someone 3 items separately. We're doing this out of our good graces but we're not going to be tripling and quadrupling post office fees. Okay everyone new guests and new weekly episodes are coming now.