Junk Box Jury

Selected tracks taken from the album “Bulletin Board” on (Bell Records BELL 1137) October 1973

The Partridge Family | Bulletin Board | (Bell Records) | The final Partridge Family album is filled with a new sound, more musicians than any other Partridge Family album, and a more gritty vocal lead from David Cassidy than ever before.

Blues giant and singer/songwriter Mark James has three songs on this album including “Where Do We Go From Here?” and “Roller Coaster”—a song that “should have been a single” according to vocal arranger John Bahler who actually produced this album.

The Partridge Family | Bulletin Board | (Bell Records)

The actual single from this album was “Looking For A Good Time,” a story song with a little darker vibe that usual. “Money, Money” is another complete change in sound, written by Bobby Hart, Danny Janssen and Wes Farrell. It’s an exciting mixed bag as the Partridge Family “grand finale” and succeeds on all levels of musical precision.

The album cover featured a handwritten track listing pinned to a bulletin board, as well as a “family” photograph and a memo detailing the show’s new Saturday night time slot.

According to the liner notes for the CD release, the album cover was created within only a few hours due to time constraints. While Wes Farrell is credited as producer on the album, in fact it was produced and arranged by John Bahler (also spelled as Bähler), a member of late-1960 pop group the Love Generation and, later, the Ron Hicklin Singers, several members of whom provided backing vocals on all of the Partridge Family albums. 

‘Bulletin Board’ is the only Partridge Family album recorded in a studio different from the preceding albums (which had all been recorded at Western Recorders, Studio 2 in Los Angeles).

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