Song: One Bad Apple
Song by: The Osmonds

Music Intro by: Gail Nobles
All vocals by: Gail Nobles

A quick summary of what we have talked about so far in the podcast.
*Jr. Walker & the All Stars - Do You See My Love (For You Growing). * Joe Tex - Ain’t Gonna Bump No More ( With No Big Fat Woman). * James Brown - Kansas City * Maxine Nightingale’s first hit - Right Back Where We Started From * BJ Thomas - Raindrops
All of the songs were released in the 1970s except for James Brown’s song - Kansas City. It was recorded in 1967.

Now let’s get started on today’s topic. The Osmonds - One Bad Apple. The song was released as a single on Nov. 14, 1970. It debuted on the Billboard Hot 100 on January 2, 1971. It hit the top of the chart on February 13, 1971 and stayed there for five weeks. It also reached No. 6 on the R&B chart. Billboard ranked it as the No. 4 song for 1 “Both "One Bad Apple" is on the 1970 album Osmonds. It was certified Gold by the RIAA on February 4, 1971.

The song was written by George Jackson, who originally had the Jackson 5 in mind when he wrote it. According to Donny Osmond, Michael Jackson later told him that the Jackson 5 almost recorded this song first, but chose to record "ABC" instead.

"One Bad Apple" was also used as the theme to The Osmonds cartoon show on ABC-TV. It is the only song in the Osmonds' repertoire that continues to receive any appreciable airplay on oldies radio.