- Members have included Barbara Cowsill, Barry Cowsill, Bill Cowsill, Paul Cowsill, Susan Cowsill, John Cowsill, Bob Cowsill, Richard Cowsill.
- Real life inspiration behind the TV series The Partridge Family (1970).
- Barry Cowsill's body was found by police at the Charles Street Wharf in New Orleans on December 27, 2005. He was 51. He was reported missing around the time that Hurricane Katrina hit.
- Barry Cowsill, who released a solo album "As Is" in 1998 and battled long-standing substance abuse problems, was last heard leaving a message on sister Susan Cowsill's answering machine after Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans on August 29, 2005, saying, "I don't know how to get out of town except wait for a bus . . . I've been so . . . lonely . . . I hope I get in touch with you". His body wasn't discovered until four months later.
- Bill Cowsill died February 17, 2006, in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. He suffered multiple major medical problems such as emphysema, osteoporosis, Cushing's syndrome and other ailments and was coping with the sequelae of an eight-hour back surgery in which one lung had to be collapsed.
- One of their early managers was Lenny Stogel.
- The group formed in 1965 and was billed as "America's First Family of Music". The siblings turned down the opportunity to appear as themselves on The Partridge Family (1970) series when producers nixed the idea of having mother Barbara Cowsill play the TV mom in favor of Shirley Jones. Barbara Cowsill died in 1985 of cancer at age 56.
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