"One Bad Apple" is a song by the Osmonds, released as a single on November 14, 1970.
[3] Both "One Bad Apple" and the Donny Osmond-credited single "Sweet and Innocent" are on the 1970 album Osmonds.
[5] Rick Hall recorded and produced the song at his FAME Studios in Muscle Shoals; to determine who would sing lead, he lined up all of the brothers (including Jimmy) and had each one sing the opening line, choosing Merrill and Donny.
MGM Records head Mike Curb then brought it to Terry Manning in Memphis to mix.
"One Bad Apple" was also used as the theme to The Osmonds cartoon show on ABC-TV.