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Article: Music power: All singing ... all dancing The all American Osmonds are back Seventies chart stars The Osmonds are back in the public eye thanks to a new TVadvert - but, in an exclusive Music Power interview, 'Little' Jimmy Osmond tellsANDY COLEMAN that they've never really been away.
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- Evening Mail
- Article date:
- April 27, 1999
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MENTION 'Little Jimmy Osmond' and Long Haired Lover From
Liverpool
jumps immediately to mind.
That 1972 chart-topper is engrained on the British memory, along
with the image of a precocious nine-year-old singing about a place
he'd never even been to.
Today we're thousands of miles from Liverpool and J. Osmond Esq
is
neither little or precocious.
We're sitting in a plush theatre in Branson, Missouri, USA - a
venue owned and run by Jimmy, now 35-years-old and a shrewd
businessman.
It's the Osmond Family Theatre where, twice a day, six days a
week, between March and December, a slick variety show featuring
various Osmond brothers and their offspring entertain packed houses.
As well as the ...