Partridge Family Album Side 2, Track 4 1970
posted on Gramma Nettie's Old Time Radio Memories, 29 May 2023
Lyrics
(Genius 2023)
[Intro]
Baaa, ba ba ba
Baba, ba ba ba
Baaa, ba ba ba
Baaa
[Verse 1: David Cassidy, (Shirley Jones)]
I'm sleeping
And right in the middle of a good dream
Like all at once I wake up
From something that keeps knocking at my brain
Before I go insane I hold my pillow to my head
And spring up in my bed
Screaming out the words I dread
"I think I love you!"
(I think I love you)
[Verse 2: David Cassidy, (Shirley Jones)]
This morning
I woke up with this feeling
I didn't know how to deal with
And so I just decided to myself
I'd hide it to myself
And never talk about it
And didn't I go and shout it
When you walked into my room
"I
think I love you!"
(I think I love you)
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| (Songfacts 2023) |
Jones and Cassidy were the only members of The Partridge Family to perform on their recordings, as Cassidy sang lead and Jones, a veteran of movie musicals Oklahoma and The Music Man, sang backup (Genius 2023).
Unlike The Monkees, the actors who were not hired to sing didn’t have musical aspirations. Top-tier session musicians played on The Partridge Family’s songs …. On their singles and albums, the group was credited as “The Partridge Family starring Shirley Jones featuring David Cassidy.” This was released the same day the TV show went on the air, and 2 months and 4 days later, it was a #1 hit (Genius 2023).
The writer, Tony Romeo, “also wrote songs for The Seekers, The Everly Brothers” Apparently, the vocal intro made it “challenging for disk jockeys to talk over the song.” The group, Voice of the Beehive made their own version which hit #25 in UK (Genius 2023).
Sources
Genius -- I Think I Love You. (2023). I Think I Love You. Retrieved June 2023, from Genius: https://genius.com/The-partridge-family-i-think-i-love-you-lyrics
Romeo, T. (nd). I Think I Love You [Recorded by The Partridge Family]. On The Partridge Family Album. New York, NY, USA: W. Farrell. Retrieved 2023
Songfacts. (2023). I Think I Love You, by The Partridge Family. Retrieved June 2023, from Songfacts: https://www.songfacts.com/facts/the-partridge-family/i-think-i-love-you
Wikipedia -- I Think I Love You. (2023, April 6). I Think
I Love You. Retrieved June 14, 2023, from Wikipecia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Think_I_Love_You
Wikipedia, The Partridge Family Album. (2023, March). The Partridge Family Album. Retrieved April 17, 2023, from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Partridge_Family_Album
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