I THINK I LOVE YOU

Let's talk about The Partridge Family. You know who they are; a family singing group fronted by the very attractive Shirley Jones. They were a TV sensation in the 70's and the show catapulted David Cassidy into glorious teen stardom and was safely nestled in between such teen heart throbs such as Davy Jones (#1 teen star of all time!) and Paul McCartney.

But I don't just want to talk about the Partridge Family in general. No, no, I want to talk about this:

This particular record was the Partridge Family's second effort. At best, it is a mediocre album and the production is not as tight as their first album. But still it's listenable and screw you haterz, I love it a lot. So there.


It looks like a fairly normal album, right? I mean, as normal as a album targeted to prepubescent tweens could be.


But wait! What's this!
Free bookcover inside! Holy moly! We better take a closer look at this.


OH YES. Will you just look at this wonderful, GLORIOUS book cover? It is everything a book cover should be.


It has a thoughtfully placed section for you to write all your school details, just in case you should feel so inclined to use this as a school book cover so you can have a picture of David with you at all times.


I love his handwriting. That is one screwy lowercase d.


Blinded by my eagerness to try out this glorious book cover, I grabbed the first hardcover in sight. I'm sorry, J.D. Salinger! I hope you understand.


I cannot tell you how exciting this was for me. I didn't trim the book cover because I wanted to preserve it in all it's glory, but it looks AMAZING just the same.


OH YES. Camp at it's finest.

So apparently their first album (The Partridge Family Album) included a colour picture of the group inside! I eagerly scoured my record case for it, but alas, it seems that it got lost and or destroyed. :(

Early Dylan.

I figured my first post on this blog should be epic. So:

This book is a collection of what else, early photographs of Bob Dylan. I found it in the sale section of my worst enemy, Barnes and Noble for a mere $6.98. It is filled with some of the most beautiful, expressive photographs I have ever seen. I know that sounds weird (it is Dylan, after all), but trust me on this one.

This shot is by Daniel Kramer.


I really love this picture. Peter is really feeling the music! Bob is to the right of Joan. According to back of the book, they're singing We Shall Overcome. I don't know who the rest of the people are, but the first three are Peter, Paul and Mary. Jim Marshall took this.


The lady is Joan's sister, Mimi. I think I might love her. She looks pretty fierce. Notice how Bob's playing his harmonica and his harpsichord at the same time. Barry Feinstein took this.


This is definitely one of my favourites. I'm guessing this was shot during the recording of Peter, Paul, and Mary's second album, In The Wind, which, interestingly enough, Bob wrote the liner notes for. Kudos to Jim Marshall.


Okay, so apparently Bob was hugging Joan in the second picture, and she picked him up. Yeah, I'm confused too. That's just weird. Barry Feinstein took the photo on the right, and Daniel Kramer the left.


I could write so many things about this photograph. It's almost telling a story, and I think that if you didn't know it was Bob Dylan and Joan Baez waiting for a bus, you could write an entire story about these people. Anyways, I like how all the luggage is obviously hers, and how she's sitting on his guitar case. Daniel Kramer.


Jim Marshall took this one.


Daniel Kramer again.


Jim Marshall.


A lot of the photos from this session are enormously famous, but I really do adore this one. Also, I don't know why my camera refused to focus on Dylan's head. Oh well. Daniel Kramer.


BUDDY HOLLY was my first thought. More Daniel Kramer.


These are some mega-famous photographs right here. I think there's a documentary out there where some dude tracked down all the children in that shot and made them recreate it. I think he asked Barry Feinstein (who photographed these) if Dylan liked children, and he said "Yeah, I think so." I don't know, it made me LOL.


This is my favourite, by a mile. Oh lord, I don't think I can even find adequate words to write about this picture with. Whatever. I love you Barry Feinstein!


I kind of drool everytime I see a shot like this (I think it has to do with the way the light is... shining?). There are a lot of Beatles shots like this. I would frame them all and hang them up, tbh. Daniel Kramer.


The only studio shot in the book. Daniel Kramer is awesome.