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I Used to Have a Dog Named Daisy, so I had to Watch Daisy Jones & The Six
I didn’t realize the connection to Elvis till the end of the third episode
I spontaneously clicked on the Daisy & The Six mini-series one night. One eye was open, the other closed.
Knowing I would be asleep in ten minutes, I didn’t want to watch anything too serious. It turns out my initial thoughts about Daisy & The Six were wrong. It is a great series. I was blown away.
Because I tend to fall asleep while watching tv, I don’t tackle anything too serious at night. If I want to watch something good, I’ll make it a point to wake up earlier than usual and watch it first thing in the morning. It’s the reason I keep The Partridge Family in my favorites because it’s goofy, easy on the brain, and there is no violence. It’s a show guaranteed to put me asleep.
When it first came out in 1970, I was enthralled with Susan Dey, who played the role of Lauri Partridge. She was the wholesome girl of my dreams. I had a picture of her on my wall, next to a Jane Fonda poster of Barbarella as Queen of the Galaxy and Farah Fawcett with her hot body and toothy smile.
Growing up in the sixties and seventies, almost everything about music from the era catches my attention. My fandom began when…
