Shopping Bag

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{{Infobox album
| name = Shopping Bag
| type = studio
| artist = [[The Partridge Family]]
| cover = Shopping Bag - The Partridge Family.jpg
| alt =
| released = March 1972
| recorded =
| venue =
| studio = [[United Western Recorders|United Western]] (Hollywood)
| genre = [[Psychedelic pop]], [[bubblegum pop]]
| length = 33:36
| label = [[Bell Records|Bell]]
| producer = [[Wes Farrell]]
| prev_title = [[A Partridge Family Christmas Card]]
| prev_year = 1971
| next_title = [[At Home with Their Greatest Hits]]
| next_year = 1972
| misc = {{Singles
| name = Shopping Bag
| type = studio
| single1 = [[It's One of Those Nights (Yes Love)]]
| single1date = December 1971
}}
}}
{{Album ratings
| rev1 = [[AllMusic]]
| rev1Score = {{Rating|2.5|5}} <ref Name=AM1>{{AllMusic|class=album|id=mw0000106714 |label=Review |first=Lindsay |last=Planer |accessdate=17 March 2020 }}</ref>
}}
'''''Shopping Bag''''' is the fifth studio album by TV-linked pop project [[The Partridge Family]]. Released in March 1972, just as the second season of the TV series was finishing in North America, the album entered [[Billboard (magazine)|''Billboard'']]'s [[Billboard 200|Top LP's]] chart in late March, peaking at no. 18 in late April. The album remained in the Top 200 for 17 weeks and was certified [[Recording Industry Association of America|gold]]. The vinyl release of the album contained a novelty plastic shopping bag.

Consistent with all of the Partridges' eight studio albums, the record was produced by [[Wes Farrell]] for Coral Rock Productions, and released on [[Bell Records]]. Farrell arranged the rhythm tracks, and [[Mike Melvoin]] arranged the strings and horns. The disc was engineered by Bob Kovach, with assistant engineer Winston Wong. As with all of the group's releases, the album features some of the era's most highly regarded studio musicians, better known as "[[the Wrecking Crew (music)|the Wrecking Crew]]": [[Hal Blaine]] (drums), Mike Melvoin (keyboards), [[Dennis Budimir]] (guitar), [[Louie Shelton]] (guitar), [[Larry Carlton]] (guitar), [[Tommy Tedesco]] (guitar) and [[Max Bennett (musician)|Max Bennett]] (bass). And once again members of the [[Ron Hicklin Singers]] – brothers [[John Bahler|John]] and [[Tom Bahler]], [[Ron Hicklin]] and [[Jackie Ward]] – feature prominently as backing vocalists throughout the album, with arrangements by John Bahler.

As with most Partridge Family releases, several known songwriters contributed songs to the album including duo [[Boyce and Hart|Tommy Boyce and Bobby Hart]] – best known for major hits written for [[The Monkees]], a similar project which also combined a prime-time television series about a part-fictional/part-real musical group with a series of music albums – and two other songwriting duos: [[Irwin Levine]] and [[L. Russell Brown]] ("[[Knock Three Times]]", "[[Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree]]"), and [[Terry Cashman]] and [[Tommy West (songwriter)|Tommy West]]. Producer Wes Farrell co-wrote four of the album’s songs, and ''Shopping Bag ''’s one big hit single, [[It's One of Those Nights (Yes Love)]] (US no. 20/UK no. 11), was written by [[Tony Romeo]], who had written the Partridge Family’s signature hit, the 1970 US number one [[I Think I Love You]]".

The album’s one other US single release, “Am I Losing You”, stalled at no 59, with seven weeks on ''[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]'''s [[Billboard Hot 100|Hot 100]].

Lead singer David Cassidy contributed one song, "There'll Come a Time" – his third composition to feature on a Partridge Family album. It was also his last, as Cassidy's later songwriting efforts all would be reserved for his solo albums. 1972 was a watershed year for Cassidy in terms of his phenomenal solo career in the [[UK]], where “It’s One of Those Nights (Yes Love)” was the first of four consecutive major Partridge Family hits, coinciding with even bigger UK solo hits for Cassidy during 1972 and 1973.

==Track listing==
All tracks from the album were featured on the TV show, mainly in Seasons 2 and 3

{{tracklisting
| headline = Side one
| title1 = Girl, You Make My Day
| writer1 = {{hlist|Tommy Boyce|Bobby Hart}}
| length1 = 3:11
| title2 = Every Little Bit o' You
| writer2 = {{hlist|Irwin Levine|[[L. Russell Brown]]}}
| length2 = 3:02
| title3 = Something New Got Old
| writer3 = {{hlist|[[Wes Farrell]]|Bobby Hart}}
| length3 = 2:54
| title4 = Am I Losing You
| writer4 = {{hlist|Irwin Levine|L. Russell Brown}}
| length4 = 2:22
| title5 = Last Night
| writer5 = {{hlist|Wes Farrell|[[Tony Romeo]]}}
| length5 = 2:43
| title6 = It's All in Your Mind
| writer6 = {{hlist|[[Johnny Cymbal]]|Peggy Clinger}}
| length6 = 2:21
}}

{{tracklisting
| headline = Side two
| total_length = 33:36
| title1 = Hello, Hello
| writer1 = {{hlist|Wes Farrell|Tony Romeo}}
| length1 = 3:57
| title2 = There'll Come a Time
| writer2 = [[David Cassidy]]
| length2 = 2:49
| title3 = If You Ever Go
| writer3 = {{hlist|Wes Farrell|Tony Romeo}}
| length3 = 3:21
| title4 = Every Song Is You
| writer4 = {{hlist|[[Terry Cashman]]|[[Tommy West (producer)|Tommy West]]}}
| length4 = 3:32
| title5 = [[It's One of Those Nights (Yes Love)]]
| writer5 = Tony Romeo
| length5 = 3:24
}}

==Charts==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Chart (1972)
! Peak<br />position
|-
|Australia ([[Kent Music Report]])<ref name=aus>{{cite book|last=Kent|first=David|author-link=David Kent (historian)|title=Australian Chart Book 1970–1992|edition=illustrated|publisher=Australian Chart Book|location=St Ives, N.S.W.|year=1993|isbn=0-646-11917-6|page=230}}</ref>
| style="text-align:center;"| 45
|-
{{album chart|UK|28|artist=Partridge Family}}
|-
{{album chart|Billboard200|18|artist=The Partridge Family}}
|}

==Recording dates==

25 August 1971
*"Last Night"
*"Hello, Hello"
*"Ev’ry Little Bit o’ You"

4 September 1971
*"If You Ever Go"
*"It's One Of Those Nights (Yes Love)"
*"Every Song Is You"

16 December 1971
*"Something New Got Old"
*"There’ll Come A Time"
*"It’s All in Your Mind"
*"Girl, You Make My Day"

See recording dates for this and other Partridge Family albums at ''The Partridge Family Recording Sessions''<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.cmongethappy.com/aguide/recordingsessions.html |title=The Partridge Family Recording Sessions |publisher=cmongethappy |access-date=18 March 2020 }}</ref>

==References==
{{Reflist}}

{{The Partridge Family}}

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[[Category:1972 albums]]
[[Category:The Partridge Family albums]]
[[Category:Albums produced by Wes Farrell]]
[[Category:Bell Records albums]]
[[Category:Albums recorded at United Western Recorders]]

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