{"id":37,"date":"2010-09-24T09:39:54","date_gmt":"2010-09-24T09:39:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/popcultureroadtrip\/2010\/09\/come-on-get-happy.html"},"modified":"2010-09-24T09:39:54","modified_gmt":"2010-09-24T09:39:54","slug":"come-on-get-happy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/popcultureroadtrip\/2010\/09\/come-on-get-happy.html","title":{"rendered":"Come on, Get Happy!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have a story up on AOL News today in honor of The Partridge Family&#8217;s 40 anniversary &#8211; I tracked every cast member but one!<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"Apple-style-span\">(Sept. 25) &#8212; It was 40 years ago today, Shirley Partridge taught the band to play.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>OK, so maybe it was Keith.<\/p>\n<p>Either way, &#8220;The Partridge Family,&#8221; a landmark show about a fictional singing group that produced a very real teen idol who, in turn, helped sell the records the group performed on the show, is 40 years old. It premiered back on Sept. 25, 1970, quickly turning David Cassidy, now 60, into a teenybopper sensation.&nbsp;&#8230;<\/span><\/div>\n<div><font color=\"#000000\" face=\"Georgia, Helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"4\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: 14px;line-height: 21px\"><br \/><\/span><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font color=\"#000000\" face=\"Georgia, Helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"4\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: 14px;line-height: 21px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aolnews.com\/weird-news\/article\/come-on-get-happy-the-partridge-family-turns-40\/19625415\">read more<\/a><\/span><\/font><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have a story up on AOL News today in honor of The Partridge Family&#8217;s 40 anniversary &#8211; I tracked every cast member but one! (Sept. 25) &#8212; It was 40 years ago today, Shirley Partridge taught the band to play.&nbsp; OK, so maybe it was Keith. Either way, &#8220;The Partridge Family,&#8221; a landmark show&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":228,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Come on, Get Happy! - The Pop Culture Road Trip<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/popcultureroadtrip\/2010\/09\/come-on-get-happy.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Come on, Get Happy! - The Pop Culture Road Trip\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I have a story up on AOL News today in honor of The Partridge Family&#8217;s 40 anniversary &#8211; I tracked every cast member but one! 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