ALBUM: I Only Wanted You (1986)
MVC Rating: 2.5
This one is interesting. But I pulled another Nostalgia buy and bought this for a few bucks after reading how there’s resurgent interest in old rock and roll teeny bop music.
Marie’s path has been country.
Music from groups such as the Partridge Family, the Cowsills, and the Osmonds and the Jackson 5 (a group I see in a whole other realm.)
On their television show, Donnie and Marie did a bit where she sang: I’m a little bit country.”
Donnie: ‘ I’m a little bit rock and roll.’
The qualifiers came off funny to me and I mean ha-ha funny. ‘Little bit is about right’.
On this here record, Marie sings pleasantly, better than I remember. But she’s no Lynne Anderson. I I just found out she just had her 60th birthday. As a recent 62-year-old, I say Happy Birthday, and, yes, there is some age defiance here as she looks much younger.
I have to admit I listened to Donny and bros and watched the show. Enjoyed One Bad Apple .
I used to know the song Paper Laces by heart — (not on this album).
I watched brother Donny rock it up on Down By The Lazy River where Donny actually shows a little funkability. But in my childhood record collectiion, the Donny Osmond stack of 45s was way less than the Michael Jackson stack.
PS That’s a pretty catchy open on Lazy River. Just pointing it out.