By ERIKA NIEDOWSKI – Associated Press<\/p>\n
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) \u2014 They got their start playing frat parties at Brown University and doing gigs at school dances and church gatherings in Newport. They covered Beatles songs on Bannister’s Wharf, which was fitting enough. They hoped to be the next Fab Four: Bill, Bob, Barry and John.<\/p>\n
ater, three more family members, including their mother, would round out the fresh-faced clan \u2014 The Cowsills \u2014 whose harmonies would climb to the top of the pop music charts.<\/p>\n
Surviving members of the group that enjoyed a meteoric rise in the 1960s \u2014 the Cowsills would serve as the inspiration for the TV show “The Partridge Family” \u2014 are scheduled to perform Wednesday evening in Providence. It’s a rare on-stage reunion in the state where they saw their beginnings.<\/p>\n
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