It was the kind of thing where you could watch Donny & Marie at 8 o’clock, have dessert after dinner and in some ways it was mindless to the point where you just didn’t have to worry about anything.” I also remember the show being on Friday nights, which were the key years I watched it. It’s saccharin and sweet and really an escape from the troubles of the day. It was something I was watching when I was maybe eight, my sister was maybe four, and it seemed like this kind of fun, ‘adult’ thing, but it was really toned down for kids or for people who just don’t want any kind of controversy. “Whereas Sonny and Cher were dealing with things like their divorce and had more couples-related jokes, Donny and Marie really toned that down in a significant way. “What’s interesting is that it was light even for the variety shows of the ’70s,” says Don. During that time, Donny and Marie had begun appearing on different talk shows and were gaining popularity to the point that when their own show debuted, it pretty much exploded out of the gate. In the mid-1970s there were variety shows featuring the likes of Sonny & Cher, The Captain and Tennille, Tony Orlando and Dawn. While Other Variety Shows Were Fading, ‘Donny & Marie’ Became a Hit
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But the early ’70s were over by 1975 or 1976, so it didn’t really work.”įor details on the origins of Donny & Marie, and much more, please scroll down.īe sure to check out and subscribe to our Classic TV & Film Podcast for interviews with your favorite stars! It was around 1969 that the older brothers decided they wanted to do a band, and in 1970 recorded at Muscle Shoals - the famous southern recording studio - and really developed this kind of different rock sound, which had an early ‘70s feel. But they weren’t playing rock ‘n’ roll at all and, in 19, they were really outside the rest of the culture in a lot of ways. Then they started adding Donny, Marie and Jimmy - the young kids.
When Donny & Marie started, we had already known about the Osmonds, who had been on The Andy Williams Show starting in about 1962 and were doing a barbershop quartet concept. And the Osmonds were really the most ‘wholesome’ of them all in a lot of ways. Just wholesome concepts in a general sense these big families who were all working together as a family. “If you look at that era,” he continues, “there was The Walton s, The Brady Bunch, The Partridge Family, the Jackson 5 and the Osmonds. Karen Valentine Remembers 'Bewitched' Star Paul Lynde
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