But spoiler alert, we did not get eliminated because of Chris Knight!” jokes Lookinland, referring to the fact that the Mummies were eliminated after only one performance. “If I may say something, we play up this ‘Chris Knight versus music’ thing because it's very real, for one, and it's been an ongoing theme for decades. Frankly, I'm not as fragile as I was before. “This came our way, and I've been there before. And the fact is, are going to pull me through this,” Knight explains sweetly. “The fact is, as I get older, is less traumatic. (He also still owns a replica of his famous Johnny Bravo suit, which he’s proud to say still fits.) Unsurprisingly, Williams was the Brady who was most excited about this year’s Masked Singeropportunity, and the one who ultimately convinced Knight to put on that mummy suit. Williams did get to live his rock star dream eventually: He has performed around the country with his musical trio, and for six and a half years he played 140 gigs a year with his own variety-style revue in Branson, where he now resides.
And once it was ‘Brady Bunch’ albums, there was no way to take control. I could've just said no, but I was concerned about losing the deal altogether.
So, once that dynamic came into play, that would've been the opportunity to wrest control. And then there was a corporate decision to make them ‘Brady’ albums instead of ‘Barry Williams’ albums. “I got a deal with Famous Music, which became Paramount Records, and I was midway through making that album. “Here's how that went down,” Williams reveals. In fact, at one time, those Brady Bunch albums were supposed to be Barry solo projects “Well, I don't know about David or Shaun or Donny, but I don't think it's any secret that I wanted to live the Johnny Bravo dream,” Williams admits. However, while all of the Brady kids except for Susan "Cindy Brady" Olsen released solo singles, it seemed it was Williams (who co-wrote the original Brady Bunch song “Till I Met You” with Steven Schwartz in 1971) who was truly being groomed to be a Tiger Beat teen idol, a la The Partridge Family’s David Cassidy, David’s younger brother Shaun, or Variety Hour guest Donny Osmond – a real-life Johnny Bravo, if you will. Knight - whose pubescent, un-Auto-Tuned voice-crack in “Time to Change” was a major plot point in The Brady Bunch’s “Dough Re Mi” episode, which turned 50 this year - insists he’s “not really a performer or a singer at all” and is “the one who really has no talent in the area.” But back in the Bradys’ 1970s heyday, that didn’t prevent him from “being dragged along with song and dance,” as the cast released four albums, starred in The Brady Bunch Variety Hour, and even played the Hollywood Bowl as part of a Krofft extravaganza.
IT TIME FOR CHANGE SONG BRADY BUNCH TV
It was a TV experience that the actors tell Yahoo Entertainment was even more surreal than their garish Sid & Marty Krofft-produced ‘70s variety show - which was the last time that any of the Brady siblings had sung together in public.īut while Williams and Lookinland were totally on board when Fox invited them to be part of this Very Brady Episode of The Masked Singer, their onscreen middle brother was “the reluctant one.” In fact, Barry and Mike were reluctant to even bring it up: Lookinland laughingly reveals that ‘Who's going to call Chris?” is what he blurted out when he heard the news.
Brady Bunch brothers Barry Williams, Christopher Knight, and Mike Lookinland (aka Greg, Peter, and Bobby Brady) made the world a whole lot brighter for Masked Singer viewers last week, when they amusingly performed as the Mummies.
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