The Cowsills Podcast

Well we found our brother John just before he was jetting off to Cancun.  We had a great visit got caught up on all things regarding the duo, the Smithereens and the Beach Boys.  Enjoy our family chat!

Hi everyone we are here for a great visit with you and each other.  Guests will start again next week promise, with our brother John, and then more to follow.  In the meantime just relax and enjoy the episode and we will see you all next week.

We are heading to West Virginia everyone.  Got a hurricane teasing us but we're feeling safe.  Just a little visit before we hit the road.  See everyone at the Capitol Theater in Wheeling Saturday night!

Hello everybody welcome to the new episode.  Just the three of us answering some [email protected] questions and visiting about this and that. Hope everyone is having a great autumn enjoy the episode.  See everyone in Wheeling, West Virginia on Saturday, October 10th!

Well Susan is in Florida but she's in the central time zone and we thought she was in the eastern one so she missed the episode.  So Paul and Bob take it on their own as they have done before and take you through the 4-show trio swing they just returned from on the east coast.  Susan does pop in at the end to say goodbye.  Okay everyone enjoy!

Hello everybody we are in Arlington Texas to perform at the Arlington Music Theater tonight on a very short road trip. Hope everyone is settling in to a nice autumn.  Here's a short visit from our hotel room.

eng||Our first episode following our summer Happy Together tour is here and we are visiting with Jason Scheff who spent the summer with us singing his 4 Chicago hits on the Happy Together tour.  Enjoy the visit we know that we sure did!

We're breaking camp gang and getting ready to end the tour for another year. Paul gives us a medical update and we just have a little not too long conversation about a lot of stuff.

We re-hired Susan everyone.  We missed her.  If you saw the last episode you know what happened.  So we just share some crazy stuff especially Paul's story about the brain medicine and that's all we'll say about that!

We re-hired Susan everyone.  We missed her.  If you saw the last episode you know what happened.  So we just share some crazy stuff especially Paul's story about the brain medicine and that's all we'll say about that!

Well our sister Susan took a daycation with her husband Russ so it's Paul and Bob today and it is a blast.  Learn about the bus, the tour, the ice, the riders. and other factoids that may be of interest and have a relaxing time with us.

Hi everyone we are back and we won't miss another week...had to run this past episode a second week. What a blast the 3-day break was and you will hear all about Paul and Susan's bus ride to the east.  The show is going great come out and see it.  27 hit songs it's absolutely relentless!!!

Hi everyone this week we want you to meet Karl Heibron.  Karl is the front of house engineer for the Happy Together Tour.  His history is rich and varied. You will love his story and you will learn a lot about the role of the front of house engineer along the way.

THE TOOTH, THE TOUR, AND OTHER THINGS....WE ARE BACK!!  We had to extend last week's episode due to a dental emergency we are all following on our episodes with Paul being the toothman. Good to be back from our tour break and we are looking forward to the next 44 shows. Here's a short recap of what's coming and what came before.  We still can't believe we get to do this!!

Hello everyone we're on our break from the Happy Together tour this is our first show of the break hope you enjoy our visit just some ramblings and thoughts to share see you next week!!

Hi everybody.  This is our last episode of the first leg of the Happy Together Tour and we wanted to introduce you to the girls of the Happy Together Tour and learn a little about what goes on out here.  We off for 3 weeks so we will report from the tour break next.  Enjoy!

Hi everyone here's a nice short visit to catch you all up on the summer tour and what else is coming our way.  Everybody is finding their way and getting comfortable with the rhythm of the road enjoy the episode we'll start our first summer guest next week.

Hello everyone we are settling in out here on the summer Happy Together Tour....6 down with 60 to go!  Hope you enjoy our visit.  We had an interesting question at [email protected] (where you can write to the program) regarding our performance of the National Anthem at game 3 of the 2004 ACLS between the Red Sox and Yankees at Fenway Park in Boston.  Most of the time we are asked what it was like to perform the anthem in such a setting, etc., but this person simply was asking how did we get there?  How did we find ourselves standing at home p...

Well everyone we've had some long episodes and some short ones so here's a short one kind of setting up the summer and what to expect and what's happened so far and all that good stuff.  We sat for the beginning and after 15 minutes it felt like we'd been talking an hour so we had to do a second segment. Too funny. We're on our first week of the tour and it goes until September 7th so whoa there!!! Enjoy the episode and there's more to come from the summer Happy Together tour!

Well we finally coordinated our schedules and time zones and lives to have a visit with Jason Scheff, he of the famed band Chicago for 20 years and future participant in this summer's Happy Together tour.  You'll have to listen to hear about Jason's connection with not only The Cowsills, but Ron Dante, the Association and Gary Puckett.  What a story!!

Well everyone it's a crazy busy week and we're all getting ready for the summer tour.  Speaking of which this will be our first summer out without our leader, Mark Volman, since he passed away.  In honor of his legacy and wonderfulness we wanted to highlight our visit with Mark and revisit his playfulness and incredible history. So please enjoy if not for the first time once again our incredible visit with this great man. We miss him a lot.

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This week's guest is a longtime good friend of the Cowsills. Mark Volman, or Bossy as...

Well we tried to schedule Jason Scheff who's coming out with us this summer on the Happy Together Tour but that will have to wait until next week but don't miss that one.  In the meantime we visit each other and get a nice report from Susan from Jazzfest in New Orleans.  Enjoy!!

We got such fantastic feedback regarding the 1991 live set from Club Lingerie that we decided to share the China Club set of "Global" songs from the same time - 1991. Both sets include a song "She Wants Everything" which we never recorded but were treating it seriously with this live performance with John on lead vocal (Bob sang it a Club Lingerie)....clearly we had plans that never were brought to fruition with "She Wants Everything".  Enjoy!!

Hey everyone we are back from the sea and the cruise. We got a lot of positive feedback for last week's episode with the club set of "Global" songs from 1991 Please enjoy our visit as we fill you in on our trio show in Fort Myers, the cruise and the memorial for Mark Volman that we attended on Easter Sunday.  Hope everyone had a nice Easter and see you all with a new guest next week!

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!