2003 - Everett Price , Teri Cote, A Touch Of Blue, New York ...and God Bless America..

-

 David Cassidy did so many things in 2003 that I've just had no idea what title of that post would have been the best..Let's start from a very interesting, serious  tv role. He played in the tv drama called 'Agency'. The serial followed the inner-workings of the CIA and its war with Al Queada. One of the producers was Shaun Cassidy. The serial had a very impressive cast : Beau Bridges, Will Patton, Gloria Reuben. But 'Agency' suffered because of  a very bad timing. The pilot, about the planned lethal attack on western countries was to premiere at the CIA headquarters on September 18, 2001.

The episode with DC was called 'War,Inc.' and was one of the last episodes of that unlucky serial. It was aired on CBC on April 26, 2003. David played a wealthy CEO, who lost over 200 employees on 9/11. He was very convincing in the role of that hunted man, Everett Price. He also looked just fabulous , mature and very handsome..and his voice..what a shame he didn't have more such roles

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzPSZEgKybY

In 2003 DC played concerts, just 32 and only in the U.S. He started on February and finished in December. The concerts were just great. David was in fantastic shape and great vocal form, relaxed and happy. He told jokes, laughed and talked with the audience. He always gave everything, even if  sometimes he had to play in difficult weather conditions , or he and his band reached the place just an hour or two before the concert. And David Cassidy had a new , great drummer. Teri Cote. Just listen to this..Amazing..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwZ_NFxYxfY

Fans were very happy. '..he was in the best mood, and so generous, and signed one autograph after another while he was singing.(..) The guards were trying to get us to sit down and David said :' oh, don't make them sit down!' And he smiled at us, it was a happy, different David.' (Lancaster, PA , Donna's review)

Those concerts were for fans. Some people still couldn't undertand why that bond was so strong."DC is obviously being used to be loved. Cassidy's show was equal part nostalgia, Vegas and Velveeta' (April18, 2003,M.Rowland 'a Lot Of Love With a Cheese On Top')

On November3rd , in the UK , a new DC's album 'A Touch Of Blue' was released by Universal, with new material and a bonus CD with old hits, it was again produced by Ted Carfrae. The songs were covers with one exception - 'New York City Life' penned by David. What can I say..what a shame , pity there were not more songs like that one. David Cassidy : 'Sue thinks it's the best song I've written in the last..I don't know ..maybe ever' he said almost cautiously 'I hate to make statements like -it's the best- but it's one of the better things I've written' ( 2003April10, Mark Wyckoff, Inside Ventura County)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqvceA5Z0b0

 There were also other great bluesy/jazzy covers. Listening to DC singing  only one word comes to mind - a crooner. Crooners , real singing masters of jazz or blues standards. Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra, Nat King Cole, Bobby Darin...and David Cassidy on that album

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlIlSrNwMWs

Each song was carefully played, beautifully sung and recorded live in LA.This is my fav one , Paul Simon's 'Mother And Child Reunion'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iT2ndFapaCc

On October 21st David sang 'God Bless America' during the baseball game ( the 7th inning stretch of Game 3 of the World Series in Miami - very complicated) , but the most important is that it was a great honour for him, being an American and a huge sport fan, quite an unique experience. 'God Bless America' is not easy to sing acapella, standing alone in the middle of a huge stadium.. 30 years eariler he performed in such places, but he was young and girls were screaming. This time it was only his voice and people who were listening to him and singing with him. David was great.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XyNUx3DVVZg

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f7/Lower_Manhattan_skyline_-_June_2017.jpg



Comments

  1. Encarni5/18/21, 2:57 PM

    It was a great discovery for me to hear "Mother & Child Reunion" in David's voice. It was always one of my favorites from Paul Simon.

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. Weronika5/18/21, 4:02 PM

      Yes, David's cover is..amazing, I mean it's a great song and I always liked it..but DC made sth special. Maybe I should have written that I have some problems with 2 songs from that album. Most songs are DC's best, but I don't like..or better say I don't lsten to 'Walk Away Renee' and 'More Than Words'. Maybe I will change my mind, it's happened with some songs from 'Romance' album. Thanks for your comment Encarni.

      Delete

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Kay Lenz, an Actress

-
Image
Don't get me wrong, I'm not writing today's blog just to gossip about DC's private life, it's because I always admired that amazing woman, Kay Ann Lenz. She had birthday yesterday. 3 years younger than David, a few years older than a typical DC's fan.  In the 70s I heard quite a lot about Kay Lenz . She was very popular in Poland, like the rest of the cast of 'Rich Man, Poor Man'. That tv series was shown in my country I think in 1978, and everybody watched it, also a lot was written about the cast. So one day I read that Kay's husband was a former teen idol, David Cassidy. There was also a pic and I thought that it was just wonderful, I thought they were the most beautiful couple in the world. There was something very moving about Kay. I thought she was different than typical American actress. Such beautiful eyes, but her beauty wasn't an ordinary kind, not for everybody so to speak. When I was a teen I couldn't put in words what I thought a
Read more

They Said I Changed A Lot..

-
Image
Let's first listen to something which was not released, why they didn't want David singing that song is a great mystery for me. Listening to his young, sincere, innocent and magical voice is one in a kind moving experience. You can just imagine David sitting next to you, with his guitar...and.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PbghG6czuw&t=6s Amazing. And of course we believe in David Cassidy and love songs. When I became a real DC's fan in 2018, there was something I used to discuss a lot with my English friend B. How David Cassidy kept changing. A completely different person in each decade. Or even more often. It was something difficult to understand for me. The many faces of David. Each album different from the previous one, different style and even his voice.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4gvxt1WgaA B. thought there was nothing unusual about how David was changing, and I simply didn't follow his career from the beginning, I didn't grow with him, I didn&#
Read more

'I Just Hated Being In The Show..'

-
Image
Last week someone posted a screenshot of the article from May 1974, unfortunately without the date or the name of the paper. Written by a popular journalist Roderick Gilchrist, I think it was Daily Express. We can read that this interview took place at London Weekend Television's Building, on the day before the DC's last concert in Manchester.  And David said, "I feel like the door to the cage has just been opened. And, any minute now I'm going to be able to fly right away from my prison. I can't tell you how happy that makes me feel because I'll be free again.." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AG0hjhwKx5s His prison..Of course there have been other teen idols in the history of pop culture, but somehow for those from the 70s it was like someone put a curse on them. Nothing David Cassidy recorded later in life hasn't changed a bit that first opinion some people had of him and his music. My FB friend, Laurie Eby has written, "I researched 'New Y
Read more