Shopping Bag is the fifth studio album by TV-linked pop project The Partridge Family.

As with most Partridge Family releases, several known songwriters contributed songs to the album including duo Tommy Boyce and Bobby Hart – best known for major hits written for The Monkees, a similar project which also combined a prime-time television series about a part-fictional/part-real musical group with a series of music albums – and two other songwriting duos: Irwin Levine and L. Russell Brown ("Knock Three Times", "Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree"), and Terry Cashman and Tommy West.

Producer Wes Farrell co-wrote four of the album’s songs, and Shopping Bag ’s one big hit single, It's One of Those Nights (Yes Love) (US no.

Lead singer David Cassidy contributed one song, "There'll Come a Time" – his third composition to feature on a Partridge Family album.

1972 was a watershed year for Cassidy in terms of his phenomenal solo career in the UK, where “It’s One of Those Nights (Yes Love)” was the first of four consecutive major Partridge Family hits, coinciding with even bigger UK solo hits for Cassidy during 1972 and 1973.