Born in Long Island, New York, Ricky Segall began his acting career in 1973 at the age of four when he played Ricky Stevens on “The Partridge Family” from 1973-1974, during the television series’ fourth and final season.
Loosely inspired by the career of the real-life family singing group the Cowsills, the ABC sitcom The Partridge Family starred Shirley Jones as Shirley Partridge, widowed mother of five musically inclined children. By the fourth season, due to declining ratings and David Cassidy’s looming possible departure, an effort was made by the producers to breathe new life into the show, by introducing a precocious 4-year-old neighbor named “Ricky Stevens,” played by Ricky Segall, to occasionally sing children’s songs with the band. Ricky was famous for his bowl haircut and his off-key singing. As he sang, everyone stood around and smiled knowingly at each other.
Ricky Segall co-hosted the first American Music Awards presentation, along with Michael Jackson and Donny Osmond and Rodney Allen Rippy. He also has subsequently acted in many movies and TV shows, including “Oh, God! Book II,” and also has done many voices for cartoons, such as “Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo”
In 1973, Bell Records released an album entitled “Ricky Segall and The Segalls,” with the unforgivably awful Christmas song “All I Want to Ask Santa Claus.” All of the songs on the album were written by Ricky’s father.
Ricky Segall is currently a minister at a Church in San Antonio, Texas, and he has also released a CD of Gospel music.
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wow…..This song is adorably terrible.