Artist: Osmonds Genre(s):
Pop
Discography:
Love Me For A Reason Year: 1974
Tracks: 11
The Plan Year: 1973
Tracks: 12
Crazy Horses Year: 1972
Tracks: 12
Osmonds Year: 1970
Tracks: 10
Following the breakout succeeder of the Jackson 5 in 1970, it was practically inevitable that a preexistent quintet of brothers, world Health Organization had already enjoyed about a decade in the national spotlight, would follow them to teen idol superstardom. With dynamic youngest brother Donny as a focal detail (much like Michael was for the Jacksons), the Osmonds did on the dot that, enjoying a run of massive popularity during 1971-1972. While their success as a unit began to wane and had flickered out by the final stage of 1974, the Osmonds spun cancelled a long-lived show business vocation for Donny (as well as baby Marie), and the former members of the mathematical group level enjoyed a successful retort as area artists.
Innate to George and Olive Osmond of Ogden, UT, brothers Alan (born June 22, 1949), Wayne (born August 28, 1951), Merrill (born April 30, 1953), and Jay (born March 2, 1955) began vocalizing together in 1959, honing their performance skills at kinfolk entertainment venues such as county fairs and entertainment parks. At this point, the brothers in the main american ginseng barbershop harmony, mixture some gospel tunes into their repertoire as well. In 1962, George took the boys to Los Angeles, hoping to secure an audition for
The Lawrence Welk Show; after Welk refused to get word the group, their beginner relieved the disappointment with a trip to Disneyland, where the brothers gave an impromptu concert with some other barbershop iV employed by the ballpark. The Osmonds were signed on as regular night performers, and luck smiled on them just a few weeks later when the father of popular vocalizer -- and new minted diversity show emcee -- Andy Williams caught their roleplay and recommended them to his word. Five days in front Christmas in 1962, the Osmonds made their national television receiver debut on
The Andy Williams Show, on which they would continue to appear regularly until its cancellation in 1967. About a year after that initial appearance, younger brother Donny (innate December 9, 1957) formally joined the mathematical group as well, and the Osmonds presently began to broaden their musical ambit with clear-cut come out songs.
Following the demise of the Williams series, the Osmonds stirred on to
The Jerry Lewis Show, where they stayed until 1969. In 1970, the commercial explosion of crime syndicate bubblegum groups such as the real world Jackson 5 and the fictional Partridge Family made the Osmonds obvious candidates for pop stardom. MGM chief Executive Mike Curb signed the Osmonds and sent them to ferment with Muscle Shoals studio owner and notable R&B producer Rick Hall. Hall's staff songster George Jackson had penned a sure-fire strike coroneted "Unrivalled Bad Apple (Don't Spoil the Whole Bunch)," which appeared on the group's debut album,
Osmonds. Released as a individual at the selfsame beginning of 1971, "Unrivalled Bad Apple" shot up the charts and landed in the top spot for v weeks, eventually establishing the Osmonds as recording stars after nigh a tenner in the public eye. A steady flow of hits continued unabated through 1972, including "Double Lovin'," the Top Five hits "Yo-yo" and "Down by the Lazy River," "Hold Her Tight," and "Dotty Horses." Their albums sold well overly;
Osmonds went atomic number 79, as did its four-spot followers: 1971's
Homemade and the 1972 triumvirate of
Phase III,
The Osmonds Live, and
Dotty Horses. What's more, Donny's concurrent solo career was in replete drop as good, with "Go Away Little Girl" topping the singles charts in 1971.
The Osmonds' momentum was slowed a bit in 1973 with
The Plan, a construct album around their Mormon faith that failed to unite with the record-buying populace to the same degree (although it was surprisingly democratic in the U.K.). Younger sister Marie Osmond began making public appearances with the mathematical group later on that class at the geezerhood of 13 (although she was never an official member) and scored a solo gain with "Newspaper publisher Roses." In the close, changing tastes and an surfeit of spinoff projects proven to be as well much for the original Osmonds to lowest as a group; 1974's "Honey Me for a Reason" was the quintet's lowest Top Ten individual, by which item Donny and Marie had established their have fall apart careers (although they oft recorded as a duet play over the next few years). The group didn't formally disband until 1980, only as a unit they had long since ceased to be a commercial force in pop music.
Donny made a brief retort in the late '80s as a present-day dance-pop vocalizer and Broadway performer, as well as reuniting with his sister in the previous '90s for a daylight speak evidence,
Donny & Marie. Marie had a few hits on the country charts in the '90s and was featured on one season of the ABC video show
Dance With the Stars in 2007. Beginning in the early '80s, the four-spot eldest members of the Osmonds -- Alan, Merrill, Wayne, and Jay -- performed together as a country act as under the name the Osmond Brothers and achieved respectable commercial success. In 1996, Alan retired from acting, and Jimmy Osmond took his lieu. They continued to release albums available through their web site and The Osmond Family Theatre in Branson, MO.
