Even Reuben Kincaid might be happy with two upcoming releases from Cherry Red’s 7Ts label: two-for-one reissues of The Partridge Family’s Sound Magazine and Shopping Bag; and The Partridge Family Notebook and Crossword Puzzle.  Continuing 7Ts’ David Cassidy and Partridge Family reissue series, both two-fers are out now in the U.K. and on February 5 in U.S. stores.

1971’s U.S. Top 10 album Sound Magazine, the third LP from the TV group fronted by David Cassidy and Shirley Jones, followed its two predecessors up the charts.  Like The Partridge Family Album and Up to Date (released in 2012 by 7Ts on one CD) as well as those albums that followed, Sound Magazine featured the instrumental talents of the Los Angeles “Wrecking Crew” including Hal Blaine, Larry Knechtel, Joe Osborn and Tommy Tedesco.  Producer Wes Farrell developed a remarkably consistent team for all of the Partridges’ sunny pop records, and Sound Magazine featured songs by Farrell and Paul Anka (“One Night Stand”), Rupert Holmes and Kathy Cooper (“Echo Valley 2-6809”) and Partridge mainstay Tony Romeo (“You Don’t Have to Tell Me,” “Summer Days,” “I Would Have Loved You Anyway”).  Irwin Levine and L. Russell Brown’s “I Woke Up in Love This Morning” was the album’s biggest hit, peaking just outside the Top 10 at No. 13 in America.  The Partridge Family Christmas Album (not part of 7Ts’ program) arrived next, but the proper follow-up album Shopping Bag arrived in early 1972 and featured much of the same personnel and songwriters.  Bobby Hart teamed with both Farrell and longtime partner Bobby Hart for a couple of songs, Farrell teamed with Romeo for three more, and David Cassidy supplied his own “There’ll Come a Time.”  It was Cassidy’s third and final songwriting credit on a Partridge Family album.  Though Shopping Bag cracked the Top 20 in the U.S. at No. 18, it didn’t yield any Top 10 singles.  Tony Romeo’s “It’s One of Those Nights” did hit No. 20 Pop.  “Am I Losing You,” by Levine and Brown, only managed to hit No. 59, signaling that Partridge-mania had perhaps subsided.

Hit the jump for details on the next two-fer, plus pre-order links and discography for both titles!

The next CD picks up with November 1972’s The Partridge Family Notebook. Its lead-off single, a revival of Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil’s “Looking Through the Eyes of Love,” scraped the Top 40 in America, but made it all the way to No. 9 in the U.K. chart.  Two other Mann and Weil classics were also included on Notebook: the oft-covered “Walking in the Rain” and the rocking “We Gotta Get Out of This Place.”  (The dreamy “Walking in the Rain” repeated its U.K. chart success for The Walker Brothers when the Partridges’ version reached No. 10.  It wasn’t released as a single stateside.)  Farrell, Danny Janssen, Bobby Hart and Tony Romeo all made contributions, and Farrell’s production was typically bright and filled with sparkling harmonies.  The album’s No. 41 U.S. chart placement wasn’t impressive by the group’s standards, but it far surpassed that of the group’s next and penultimate album.  Crossword Puzzle, despite offering another collection of upbeat, catchy pop from the usual team, couldn’t do any better than No. 167 on the Billboard 200.  By the time of its March 1973 release, David Cassidy was already enjoying solo stardom; could he have been singing about the Partridges when he soulfully implored, “We gotta get out of this place” in song?  (There’s no word yet on whether 7Ts has plans to reissue the Partridges’ final album, Bulletin Board.)

7Ts’ two Partridge Family releases both include new liner notes from Phil Hendriks and discography pages covering both albums and singles.  They’re available now in the U.K. and on February 5 in U.S. stores.  You can order both titles below!

The Partridge Family, Shopping Bag / Sound Magazine (7Ts GLAMCD 142, 2013) (Amazon U.K.)

1. One Night Stand
2. Brown Eyes
3. Echo Valley 2-6809
4. You Don’t Have to Tell Me
5. Rainmaker
6. I’m on My Way Back Home
7. Summer Days
8. I Would Have Loved You Anyway
9. Twenty-Four Hours a Day
10. I Woke Up in Love This Morning
11. Love is All That I Ever Needed
12. Girl, You Make My Day
13. Every Little Bit o’ You
14. Something New Got Old
15. Am I Losing You
16. Last Night
17. It’s All in Your Mind
18. Hello Hello
19. There’ll Come a Time
20. If You Ever Go
21. Every Song is You
22. It’s One of Those Nights (Yes Love)

Tracks 1-11 from Sound Magazine, Bell LP 6064, 1971
Tracks 12-22 from Shopping Bag, Bell LP 6072, 1972

The Partridge Family, Crossword Puzzle / The Partridge Family Notebook (7Ts GLAMCD 143, 2013) (Amazon U.K.)

1. Friend and a Lover
2. Walking in the Rain
3. Take Good Care of Her
4. Together We’re Better
5. Looking Through the Eyes of Love
6. Maybe Someday
7. We Gotta Get Out of This Place
8. Storybook Love
9. Love Must Be the Answer
10. Something’s Wrong
11. As Long As You’re There
12. One Day at a Time
13. Sunshine
14. As Long As There’s Love
15. It’s a Long Way to Heaven
16. Now That You Got Me Where You Want Me
17. It Means I’m in Love with You
18. Come On Love
19. I Got Your Love All Over Me
20. Let Your Love Go
21. It Sounds Like You’re Saying Hello
22. It’s You

Tracks 1-11 from The Partridge Family Notebook, Bell LP 220, 1972
Tracks 12-22 from Crossword Puzzle, Bell LP 234, 1973