Editing Bulletin Board (album)

{{Infobox album
| name       = Bulletin Board
| type       = studio
| artist     = [[The Partridge Family]]
| cover      = Bulletin Board - The Partridge Family.jpg
| alt        =
| released   = October 1973
| recorded   =
| venue      =
| studio     =
| genre      = [[Rock music|Rock]], [[Pop music|pop]]
| length     = 30:42
| label      = [[Bell Records|Bell]]
| producer   = [[Wes Farrell]]
| prev_title = [[Crossword Puzzle]]
| prev_year  = 1973
| next_title = [[The World of the Partridge Family]]
| next_year  = 1974
}}
{{Album ratings
| rev1      = [[AllMusic]]
| rev1Score = {{Rating|3.5|5}} <ref Name=AM1>{{AllMusic|class=album|id=mw0000804989 |label=Review |first=Dave |last=Thompson |accessdate=17 March 2020 }}</ref>
}}
'''''Bulletin Board''''' is the eighth and final studio album by [[The Partridge Family]], released by [[Bell Records]] (catalog number 1137)<ref>{{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20110223031646/http://www.davidcassidyfansite.com/DiscographyPages/BulletinBoard.html ''Bulletin Board'']}} at David Cassidy Downunder fansite.</ref> in October 1973. The album was recorded between July and September 1973.<ref name=Pattow>[http://www.cmongethappy.com/aguide/bullrev.html ''Bulletin Board'' review by Howard Pattow] from C'mon Get Happy, The Unofficial Website of The Partridge Family.</ref> ''Bulletin Board'' was the first Partridge Family album to fail to chart on [[Billboard (magazine)|''Billboard'']]'s [[Billboard 200|Top LP's]] chart.<ref>Billboard.com [{{BillboardURLbyName|artist=the partridge family|chart=all}}]</ref> "Lookin' for a Good Time" b/w "Money Money" was released as a single in November 1973 (catalog number Bell 45-414), but failed to chart. This was the last regular U.S. Partridge Family single.<ref>{{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20100919081946/http://www.davidcassidyfansite.com/DiscographyPages/PFSingles9.html Singles]}} at David Cassidy Downunder fansite.</ref>

The album cover featured a handwritten track listing pinned to a bulletin board, as well as a "family" photograph and a memo detailing the show's new Saturday night time slot. According to the liner notes for the CD release, the album cover was created within only a few hours due to time constraints. While [[Wes Farrell]] is credited as producer on the album, in fact it was produced and arranged by [[John Bahler]] (also spelled as Bähler), a member of late-1960 pop group [[the Love Generation]] and, later, [[the Ron Hicklin Singers]], several members of whom provided backing vocals on all of the Partridge Family albums. ''Bulletin Board'' is the only Partridge Family album recorded in a studio different from the preceding albums (which had all been recorded at Western Recorders, Studio 2 in Los Angeles).<ref>[http://www.cmongethappy.com/aguide/releasedates.html Partridge Family Release Dates]</ref>

Reviewer Dave Thompson of [[AllMusic]] gave the album a rating of 3½ stars out of 5, claiming it was more representative of [[David Cassidy]]'s solo material than the typical Partridge Family album: "the performances all lean a lot closer towards the Cassidy solo ideal – soft ballads, tight rockers – than the all-for-one harmonies and joy that characterized the Partridges' earlier releases."<ref>Allmusic [{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r14933|pure_url=yes}}]</ref> Howard Pattow, a member of the Partridge Family tribute band [[Sound Magazine]], states that "the music here is groovy and funky, a definite reflection of pop music's embrace of disco ... overall, the music on ''Bulletin Board'' is quite different from previous Partridge Family efforts ... [and] features musicians that had previously not appeared on a Partridge record."<ref name=Pattow/>

In September 2008 [[Collectors' Choice Music]] reissued the album on CD. Initially the disc was available exclusively through the company's [http://www.ccmusic.com/ website]. The disc contains two bonus tracks: both sides of the Bones Howe-produced [[Shirley Jones]] single "Ain't Love Easy"/"Roses in the Snow", originally released in October 1972.<ref>[https://www.amazon.com/dp/B001EWOID8 Amazon.com Editorial Review]</ref>

==Track listing==
All tracks from the original album, except "Where Do We Go From Here", were featured in the fourth and final season of the TV show

{{tracklisting
| headline          = Side one
| title1            = Money Money
| writer1           = {{hlist|Wes Farrell|Danny Janssen|[[Boyce and Hart|Bobby Hart]]}}
| length1           = 2:31
| title2            = Roller Coaster
| writer2           = [[Mark James (songwriter)|Mark James]]
| length2           = 2:22
| title3            = Lookin' for a Good Time
| writer3           = {{hlist|Wes Farrell|Danny Janssen|Bobby Hart}}
| length3           = 2:12
| title4            = [[Oh No Not My Baby]]
| writer4           = {{hlist|[[Gerry Goffin]]|[[Carole King]]}}
| length4           = 2:38
| title5            = I Wouldn't Put Nothin' over on You
| writer5           = {{hlist|Wes Farrell|Danny Janssen|Bobby Hart}}
| length5           = 2:51
| title6            = Where Do We Go From Here?
| writer6           = Mark James
| length6           = 2:36
}}

{{tracklisting
| headline          = Side two
| total_length      = 30:42
| title1            = How Long Is Too Long
| writer1           = {{hlist|[[Tom Bahler]]|[[Tony Asher]]}}
| length1           = 3:41
| title2            = I'll Never Get over You
| writer2           = [[Tony Romeo]]
| length2           = 2:59
| title3            = Alone Too Long
| writer3           = {{hlist|Mark James|[[Cynthia Weil]]}}
| length3           = 3:10
| title4            = I Heard You Singing Your Song
| writer4           = [[Barry Mann]]
| length4           = 2:38
| title5            = That's The Way It Is with You
| writer5           = [[Harriet Schock]]
| length5           = 3:04
}}

{{tracklisting
| headline          = CD bonus tracks
| total_length      = 36:52
| title1            = Ain't Love Easy
| note1             = solo track by Shirley Jones
| writer1           = Carol Hall
| length1           = 3:13
| title2            = Roses in the Snow
| note2             = solo track by Shirley Jones
| writer2           = Randy McNeill
| length2           = 2:57
}}

==Personnel==
Produced by Wes Farrell for Coral Rock Productions, Inc.
*Partridge Family vocals by Shirley Jones and David Cassidy
*[[Hal Blaine]] - drums
*[[Max Bennett (musician)|Max Bennett]], [[Jim Hughart]] - bass
*[[Larry Carlton]], [[Richard Bennett (musician)|Richard Bennett]], Ben Benay, [[Dean Parks]] - guitar
*[[Chuck Findley]], Tom Bahler - horns
*Lou McCreary, [[George Bohanon]] - trombone
*Bill Perkins, [[Jackie Kelso]], Bob Hardaway - saxophone
*Gary Coleman, [[Joe Porcaro]] - percussion
*[[Michael Omartian]], [[Larry Muhoberac]] - keyboards
*[[John Bahler]], [[Tom Bahler]], [[Jackie Ward]], [[Ron Hicklin]] - backing vocals<ref name=Pattow/>

Bonus tracks produced by [[Bones Howe]].

==Recording dates==
July 25, 1973:
*"Money, Money"
*"I'll Never Get Over You"
*"Alone Too Long"
*"Oh No Not My Baby"

July 26, 1973:
*"I Wouldn't Put Nothing Over On You"

September 4, 1973:
*"I Heard You Singing Your Song"
*"Roller Coaster"
*"Lookin' For A Good Time"
*"How Long Is Too Long"

September 5, 1973:
*"That's The Way It Is With You"
*"Where Do We Go From Here" <ref>[http://www.cmongethappy.com/aguide/recordingsessions.html The Partridge Family Recording Sessions]</ref>

==Notes==
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