The unlisted hidden mystery ‘bonus’ track on a million home-made compilation tapes, here’s America’s premier singing family that was and their bizarre ‘psychedelic’ cash-in effort about seeing some hippy girl dissolve in the rain. Three fantastic things about this rather odd promo film that seems to be paying simultaneous vehicular tribute to both The Partridge Family and The Banana Splits – the mysterious reluctance of The Big Cowsill to board the fairground train (was she sneaking off to get some kerrazy drugs, or just a bit embarrassed by the whole thing?), the flock of geese who flee at high speed almost as if to say “oh fuck, it’s The Cowsills!”, and the uncanny resemblance between the close-up shots of one of the girl ones and the similar shots of Winnie riding Lord Belborough’s train in Chigley.
Mind you, don’t peruse the comments on this video, which feature all manner of extended arguments on how this disgraceful record caused Uncle Sam to lose in Vietnam. And let’s not even get started on the worryingly stalker-esque ‘tribute’ videos that are floating around either…
