Mr. Blaze said: "But my question remains why was it left off the album?"
Probably to save it for their The Best of the Cowsills compilation, released mere months after this LP (and just in time for the Christmas shopping season!) Makes good marketing sense, anchoring their greatest hits with a track not on any other LP at that time.
Randy & Fred couldn't have been happy about that back cover live pic -- talk about fashion emergency! What were they thinking in the dressing room before walking out onstage in those threads?
I borrowed this album from a neighbor kid back in the day and just loved it more than even he did. Lost all memory of it until a number of years ago when my repressed memory spit up one of the goofy lyrics, leaving me with the difficult task of finding this record I had almost no other memory of to search with. (In this case, that one other memory was the red label with the letter D logo.) Finally found and bought it online, still pleases my eardrums after all those years.
And now that I think about it, that MUST be Russell singing "Captain Marvel Jones"! Too funny. "Shazam, y'all!"