It was a calendar unlike any other. It contained music.
When designer Mary English was putting together the layout for the second Partridge Family album, she wanted to line all the cast members up, left to right across the cover, in order of their birthdays. When it proved impossible because of contract requirements, she modified her plan.
Inside the cover was the second batch of PF songs and two more top ten singles including "Doesn't Somebody Want To Be Wanted" and "I'll Meet You Halfway." Three of the songs on this album were written by the talented Gerry Goffin who found this work worthy of more than its perception.
This album differed from the first album in several ways. The number of Wrecking Crew musicians were now cut by half and given more focus. The mixes, including David's voice, were now up front to match the sound of a band playing to us through TV as we had come to know them. Several of the songs were done without strings, and the overall look and feel was more pop in design, even though a blues influence was audible throughout.
Now, with their faces (and birthdays) planted on the cover, these actors would forever live in the minds of the public as a singing family who would stick together through thick and thin.
I am always tuned in to the last song on this album ("I'll Leave Myself a Little Time") with its influential and introspective lyric:
"...for what it's worth, I'll make a home on this earth, and I will hope that love will see me through."
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