David Cassidy Being Together

Still a few days left to the end of 2024, but I've already started thinking about 2025 and David Cassidy Historical Marker, in West Orange, New Jersey.  We have the date now, 2-day celebration, 30-31 July. Looks like a lot of time, but it will pass very quickly, and I'll do everything to be there. Of course if you go so far, it's worth seeing more. New York is the obvious place to spend a few days walking in David Cassidy's footsteps. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rV6PBsW0qUw Yes, he was 'a boy from New York' as we often call him. Born there, lived in the late 60s and in the 90s, debuted on Broadway and performed there in the 90s, appeared as a guest star on many TV and radio programs. So, let's first talk about theaters. On Broadway. in Midtown Manhattan. As we know, when David was only three and a half, he saw his father in 'Wish You Were Here', and he wanted to be a performer, just like him. It's amazing how vividly he remembered it all his ...

  Let's start with the great song Wes Farrell's co-written (with Danny Janssen) for David Cassidy. DC recorded it on his first solo album, and we have this wonderful video, 'Could It Be Forever' sung live on Estelar Del Sabado, in Spain, in March 1973. It's just my thought  of course, but the way he was singing this song, the lyrics not exactly how they should be, and the omission of 'but'..maybe because at that time he was not any longer on speaking terms with Wes Farrell, who knows.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zuwVS2DqhzE If he had lived, on December 21 Wesley Donald Farrell would have celebrated his 85th birthday. He died 28 years ago, in February 1996, only 56 years old. Once someone so important, a musician, record producer and a songwriter. And he co-written some great hits, including this one, 'Hang On Sloopy', recorded for the first time by The McCoys in 1965 (Number 1 on the Billboard Hot 100), and later by many famous artists. Really a...

  I've been writing Christmas cards (traditional kind) and one of them was to my dear American friend, and without thinking what I was doing I wrote at the end, 'To you and all your family, your neighbors and your friends, may all your days be happy with a joy that never ends..'. That's the power of this very special song, considered by many to be one of the best in Partridge Family's catalog. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDstBj8h8UI It's really hard not to be moved, the song captures the spirit of that time, David Cassidy's vocal, he sings so effortlessly, so natural, as if he personally wished us Merry Christmas. There is such a tremendous joy and magic in that song. We can see (imagine) those decorated houses everywhere, falling snow.. Tony Romeo, who btw. was born on Christmas Day in 1938, found in David the perfect singer for his wonderful bitter-sweet pop masterpieces, and 'My Christmas Card To You' should have been a Christmas standard, kno...

But first the song which has been a lot with me recently. And to think  there was a time I didn't like it. 'Santa Claus Is Coming To Town For Old and Tired' as I call it. DC recorded his Christmas EP in August 2016, it was released in November. Just 16 minutes of six Christmas classics, five the same he recorded for Partridge Family. In 1971.  David Cassidy was an extraordinary, one in a kind singer. And all his life he was working with the best musicians, who appreciated his talent. This EP is not an exception, There is such a wonderful, bluesy feeling about this song, dark humor. Yes, we've been very good Santa.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCq2fSFnwmY A few days ago I saw that someone is selling a promo DC's single. (it's still on ebay). Actually I felt rather excited about it, and sent the link to The DC Official Website, and some friends, even that it was only a promo recording. Not for selling, just the kind normally sent directly to broadcasters, in t...

Sharron Liddle, Wendy Copeland and Gillian Priestley, the administrators of The David Cassidy Great Britain Legacy Group, yesterday were in Edinburgh, in Scotland.  In the morning they saw (visited) David Cassidy's plaque at the Edinburgh Playhouse, it's on one of the seats, with those words, " In Memory Of David Cassidy who performed here 1985 & 2002. Forever Missed and Loved. By his Devoted Fans" . I'm in awe of what Sharron Liddle and the members of the Group have achieved, what they have done to commemorate David Cassidy in the UK. Great ideas, determination, a lot of time and also money, but first of all love for David. In the evening, at the same Edinburgh Playhouse Theatre (btw it was opened in 1929, and it's the second largest theatre in the UK after the Hammersmith Apollo), they saw 'Joseph And The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat' with...Donny Osmond as a Pharaoh. And what's more they met Donny before and after the show. You can see pics...

and a very special Christmas song. It happened that on this day, 54 years ago, The Partridge Family Season 1 Episode 11, titled 'This Is My Song', was first aired. Do you know that DC had to change his/Keith's clothes 8 times on the set of it ? And that makeup. It must have been sooo boring and tiring. Anyway there was only one song in this episode, 'To Be Lovers', which must have looked a little bit (can't find the word, surreal? strange?) for viewers at the tme. Not only because the song was meant to be written by a kid and a teen, but first of all because on December 4, 1970 'I Think I Love You' still topped Billboard Hot 100, but the viewers of this episode could hear David's voice just for a few seconds. Or maybe it was for the better, at least everybody could hear how good he was compared with the session singers. On the website we had 2 versions of that song,  fragment of the original recording  https://www.davidcassidy.com/fansite/Discography...