Osmondmania lives! When Jack and Kelly Osbourne pulled off their masks in a viewed-by-zillions TV commercial that debuted during the recent Super Bowl, they revealed…Donny and Marie Osmond. Yet because they are the pop culture icons of the baby boomer generation, the musical success of Donny and Marie, and the entire Osmond family, has been frequently overshadowed.

Osmondmania – The Osmond Family’s Greatest Hits (Polydor/UME), released March 25, 2003, is a musical reminder of just how popular they were and helps to explain why they remain so today.

Osmondmania – The Osmond Family’s Greatest Hits brings together 28 digitally remastered selections--for the first time on one album all 27 ‘70s Top 40 pop hits by The Osmonds, Donny, Marie and Donny & Marie (plus one country Top 40). Among them are 13 Top 10s, 10 of those gold. Augmenting the package is a 16-page booklet with numerous photos and extensive liner notes, including personal recollections by Alan Osmond.

Did you know that…The Osmonds once appeared on stage with Led Zeppelin (for “Stairway To Heaven” of course)?

They were one of the loudest acts in music? Thanks to screaming audiences, their sound system, built for Zeppelin, had to project over them.

Elvis Presley used to watch them perform from the lighting booth in hotel showrooms?

A balcony at London’s Heathrow Airport collapsed when 10,000 admirers showed up, some English hotels banned them because of the crowds, and Scotland Yard even said, “Osmonds go home”?

Girls actually tried mailing themselves to The Osmonds?

With Osmondmania – The Osmond Family’s Greatest Hits, those innocent days are relived through gold Top 10 records from The Osmonds (#1 “One Bad Apple,” “Yo-Yo,” “Down By The Lazy River”), Donny (#1 “Go Away Little Girl,” “Hey Girl,” “Puppy Love,” “Sweet And Innocent,” “The Twelfth Of Never,” “I Knew You When”), Marie (#1 “Paper Roses”) and Donny & Marie (“I’m Leaving It (All) Up To You”). The other Top 10s are The Osmonds’ “Love Me For A Reason” and Donny & Marie’s “Morning Side Of The Mountain.”

The remaining Top 40s are: “Double Lovin’,” “Hold Her Tight,” “Crazy Horses,” “Goin’ Home,” “Let Me In” and “The Proud One” from The Osmonds; “Too Young,” “Why,” “Lonely Boy,” “A Million To One,” “Young Love” and “Are You Lonesome Tonight” from Donny; “Who’s Sorry Now” from Marie, and “Deep Purple” from Donny & Marie. “In My Own Little Corner Of The World,” from a solo Marie, was Top 40 country.