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This the Partridge Family - David Cassidy - Shirley Jones LP - Sound Magazine!
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The Partridge Family Sound Magazine is the third studio album by TV-linked pop project . Released in August 1971 ahead of the start of the second season of the  , it was their third hit album in ten months. In late September 1971, in its fifth week on 's  chart, the album reached its no. 9 chart peak. In that same week the album's one hit single release, "", peaked at no. 13 on 's . The LP was certified  that same month. Sound Magazine is near-universally regarded – by both fans and critics – as the Partridge Family's consummate pop album.

Sound Magazine was the only Partridge Family album to crack the  Top 20. It peaked at no. 14 in April 1972, coinciding with the chart climb of 's smash double A-sided UK solo debut hit "Could It Be Forever"/"" (UK no. 2). The album dropped out of the UK Top 40 in the same late May 1972 week in which both the afore-mentioned single and its parent album  peaked at no. 2 in their respective charts.

On Billboard's Top LP's chart, Sound Magazine overlapped with the 6 November 1971 – 22 January 1972 Hot 100 chart run of Cassidy's US debut solo hit "Cherish" (US no. 9). The album remained in the Top 30 throughout the single's chart run, then slipped following the single's disappearance from the Hot 100.

Consistent with all of the Partridges' eight studio albums, the record was produced by  for Coral Rock Productions, and released on . Farrell arranged the rhythm tracks, and  arranged the strings and horns. The disc was engineered by Bob Kovach. As with all of the group's releases, the album features some of the era's most highly regarded studio musicians, better known as "":  (drums), Mike Melvoin (piano),  (piano),  (guitar),  (guitar) and  (bass). And once again members of the  – brothers  and ,  and  – feature prominently as backing vocalists throughout the album, with arrangements by John Bahler.

As with most Partridge Family releases, many well-known songwriters contributed songs to the album, including , ,  and . The latter had also contributed songs to , a similar project which also combined a prime-time television series about a part-fictional/part-real musical group with a series of music albums.

Wes Farrell co-wrote five of the album's songs including the final track, "Love Is All That I Ever Needed", written with lead vocalist . This was Cassidy's second composition to feature on a Partridge Family album.

In the mythos of Partridge Family lore, they also recorded a watered-down version of the relatively racy "I'll Be Your Magician", penned by Irwin Levine and L. Russell Brown. The track was ultimately discarded and never released, although , who played Danny in the TV series, recorded the song for his 1973 solo album.

Cassidy recorded a reworked version of Sound Magazine's "Summer Days" for his third solo album,  (UK number one, 1973).

The cover of the album was the first to feature child actor Brian Forster, who had replaced Jeremy Gelbwaks as Chris Partridge in the TV series.