David Cassidy Being Together

 It's hard to be objective when you are a fan.. But I've really tried to be and I can tell you that it must have been extra hard for David when 'Gettin' It In The Street' even didn't have an American release, and his friends' albums had. Because those albums weren't better. and David did some backing vocals on them.  Randy Meisner, his self-titled debut studio album  released in 1978. I know that Randy wasn't happy himself with it, in a way he had to make it..but..this album is boring, if it's remembered it's only because of  Take It To The Limit 's new arrangment. But that song was The Eagles hit just a few years back, in 1975. Sure Randy co-wrote it and it was him who sang it, and in a way that song was one of the reasons he left The Eagles...I can't imagine David recording new version of one of his early hits for 'Gettin It In The Streets'. 'Rock me Baby' for example. David did backing vocals on 3 songs on Randy...

or..'so much wasted time'.. David Cassidy's last words..They were talked about a lot, many wrote that it  would be a remainder for them, a man called Mike Curtis wrote : 'to have been a celebrity, enjoyed a time of fame and stardom, and then to say those final words about life..it's hard to take in.'. But being a celebrity is not the most important, it's a kind of job..  David Cassidy : 'Having all that - the fame and adulation and women and all that stuff they talk about - doesn't make you happy. You have to make yourself happy ' Let's  listen to the song about..words and the end of love. One of the most beautiful  sung by DC. Wrote by Sue Shifrin and Ken Gold https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39g1m9Wkt1I I remember when I first watched this video .. I cried.. It's happened that I was at the cinema on Monday. The last screening of the film I have wanted to see for a long time. 'Nomadland'. I've heard that the book is even bette...

But first sth I've read about only today. Nothing important, but as you know I'm a huge America's  fan. And it's a very short note from Cash Box magazine from 12 July, 1975. It was published on the DC Official website - that DC during the America's  concert in Honolulu  was brought on stage by the group to join in singing 'Horse With No Name'. Wow ! I have no idea is it true or not, but I can imagine it. And Dan Peek left the group in May 1977..If only..Let's listen to David's and Gerry Beckley's song, one of my fav from 'Gettin It In The Street.. They should  have written and recorded more together.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWXx03VFVsY&t=146s So 'There'll Come A Time'. DC wrote some songs for TPF, with and without Wes Farrell, and 3 of them appeared on TPF's albums,  co wrote with Wes - Lay It On The Line ( Up To Date, 1971), 'Love Is All That I Ever Needed' (Sound Magazine, 1971) and his own - 'There...

We have been waiting for that star for more than 3 years. When I met my English friends on November 21st, 2018 , in London, we talked about it a lot. We tried to imagine how the star would look like, nearly all of us  gave some money for it and I’m so happy  that I have my share in that project. David Cassidy  for a few years in the 90s was the main Las Vegas attraction..Let Him Shine. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zEsxhEPMENU   I  became sure that we really needed that star, when I was in Las Vegas myself, in the early April of 2019. I heard  opinions that LV is artificial, just one street and nothing more, fake glamour, gambling and drinking..but I was bewildered by this place on Earth, a city in the middle of the Mojave Desert, and what's more Nevada is the third most seismically active state in the USA. In summer it is very hot, the city is surrounded by mountain ranges on all sides, and those mountains..I left my heart there..at Red Rock Canyon, and...

 Can you believe it that programme was recorded  45 years ago, in October 1976 (probably)... The last RCA David's album 'Gettin' It In The Street' was scheduled for release in November. The title song only got  on a Billboard chart called 'Bubbling Under' ( so it didn't make it to Hot 100), and number 7 in the weekly Top 20 voted by the readers of 'Bravo' in Germany. There was quite a lot of publicity, articles about Mick Ronson playing for David..but nothing could have helped this very good and a very personal David Cassidy's album. 'This is a thoroughly modern pop album favouring soft yet sprightly melodies over a persistent disco beat. There are two big showstoppers - 'I'll Have To Go Away' and Harry Nilsson's pastiche 'The Story of Rock & Roll' (..) That 'Gettin' It In The Street' didn't wind up achieving its goal, didn't even receive American release shouldn't have held against it, as i...

First the song, wrote by Barry Mann, from TPF's last album 'Bulletin Board' (Bell, 1973)  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=miD6zZwRPVs It's one of those TPF's songs which only looks very simple. And makes you smile and happy and it's great to sing along. A real gem. Wonderfully sung. But.. first of all not so easy to sing  and  the lyrics are not so happy. As if it were specially written for David. Maybe. Who knows? Not giving and only taking and being afraid of a serious commitment. It's started from that moment when Jack Cassidy told his very young son about the divorce. My grandson who is very sensitive is nearly the same age now... DC : 'Whatever problems I have today with trusting people, whatever problems I have with dealing with rejection, with loss - and I'm super hypersensitive about abandonment, about needing people around me to be consistent and loving - have their origins in that moment'. (David Cassidy : Could It Be Forever?, 2007) Ba...

The song performed by the author himself was released in 1978. Funny but I don't remember it from the 70s. Of course there was censorship in Poland and a lot of American music simply wasn't played on our radio, or with great delay, after a year or more, or never. The same was with books and films. I had no idea eg about 'Lord Of The Rings', 'Master and Margerita' or '1984', thousands of books were forbidden and they just weren't translated.  In 1977 I heard about 'Star Wars'  for example, that it was a great hit behind The Iron Curtain and had a sensational soundtrack, but the Polish premiere was in 1979 and you can't imagine how  difficult was to get tickets, the film was shown just for a while. I was very interested in music, but we were listening mostly to the British artists.1978 meant for me  Dire Straits and  The Police. And my boy friend kept playing me his fav English band over and over again.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAKC...

 First the song, from Notebook album and TPF Season 3, episode 21 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32_0ZRhcOZQ An interesting episode, computers and credit accounts in 1973, not  in my part of the world at the time..And great Alan Oppenheimer, a true tv legend, born 1930, he still works as a voice actor. Appeared with very young David on Ironside..in 1969. But today's blog is not about TPF..it's about..a non-existent musical. There was one moment while I was listening to Louise Poynton's conversation with Nina Myskow, when I stopped listening to and went for a long walk ( I live very close to the forest). Why there is a musical about 'Jackie' but not about David Cassidy.. Just watch those 2 videos... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KirNAvBDquw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3G0EvhYTDCM Amazing.. and it was quite a hit. Of course there is one play inspired by DC, wrote in 2010 by Lucie Fitchett and Victoria Willing, friends since the 70s, both of them loved David, th...

I've been to London in November at least three times,  once in 2012. I left for home early morning on 11th having no idea that on that day David Cassidy was in London too..In the evening (when I was already at home) he played at Wembley Arena. And he sang the hit of which he said 'this one belongs to you and me.' My first DC's song.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SdZTx06jrwQ But my English friend D. had a similar experience. In the 70s, she came to London from Kenya on May26th 1974, the day DC played the White City concert. I've read more such stories. I was also in London on November 21st, 2018, but I'm afraid I will not come this year. It's just a  two hour- flight away. In 2018 I came at 8 the morning and left at 8 in the evening, it was so important to meet with my friends and be there on the first anniversary.  But now London seems so far away from Poland.. Every trip in DC's footsteps starts there. The Phoenix Theatre, the Garden and St Giles in ...

  Sue Shifrin started her songwriting career in the early 70s. At the time she also wanted to be a recording artist, but wasn't successful as a singer. The songs she wrote or co-wrote were recorded by many famous artists. Very famous.  Tina Turner, Cher, Heart, Pointer Sisters, Bucks Fizz, Meat Loaf , Lynsey de Paul, America. And  David Cassidy. On the 'David Cassidy' album (1990), Sue co-wrote 8 songs from 10, and on 'Didn't You Used To Be' (1992), 10 out of 10. In 1998 when DC recorded his next album  'Old Trick, New Dog' he said : ' This album is not overproduced like the previous one. When your life is in chaos, you try to find a way to simplify. (..) My publisher Linda Blum-Huntington, put me together with a couple of different writers. I was trying to get away from writing exclusively with Sue, which is what I did for the previous two albums.' (David Cassidy;'Could It Be Forever?', 2007) They wrote together some truly beautiful song...

I wrote such a blog in December last year. One of my first. Since January 2018 I have been reading teen mags from the David Cassidy Website. They are fascinating read, not only because of David . They are amazing documents of social life of the 70s. Fashion, commercials, contests, fan clubs, problem columns. The 70s was a golden time for teen mags. And in the first part of that decade David Cassidy was the biggest  star. I've been carried  away a little bit and wrote it in that old blog : 'Millions of girls bought those mags. They waited impatiently for a new issue and new info, pics, posters. And they put David's posters on their bedroom walls. Millions of girls and in every bedroom David was looking at them and yet at just them. And when they were going to sleep they kissed his pics and his eyes were the first thing they looked at in the morning..' One more disc with David's message, this time Tiger Beat Official TPF Magazine, and a link to the page from DC Websit...

  Of course you can't write about teen mags and 'Jackie' and Words Of Love without mentioning Nina Myskow, 'Jackie's' editor in the 70s.. She was on Louise Poynton's podcast some time ago, actually in February. At the time I listened just to those fragments  she  spoke about David, to the whole podcast only yesterday. Why, you ask. Let me tell you first that I'm a great Nina's fan, and  now watch this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U63_n0tafoI And imagine listening to Nina speaking even faster for an hour, and English is not my native language. But it was worth it, really amazing conversation, Nina Myskow is a wonderful woman, so optimistic. We have a saying in Poland and I thought about it while listening to her, that she is a person with 'you can steal horses with ', someone brave and fearless, but also very loyal, and with a lot of fantasy, smart and funny. So many times she said 'I was very lucky' meeting that or that person, no...

That was a brilliant idea, so simple and so clever, a flexi disc presented free with Jackie magazine, David Cassidy's words of love for ..I don't know for how many millions of girls in the UK. Young David's spoken voice (also his 'private' one) was truly magical, innocent and seductive at the same time. I can imagine those girls all over the country, shut in their bedrooms and listening to David speaking to each and every one..how many times? Who knows.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ypv4t_6rzSQ   It was a very carefully planned marketing campaign. Not every cover of 'Jackie' had a picture of a singer on it. It was not a music magazine, but a weekly British mag for girls, 'a teenage girl's best friend', published from 1964 to 1993, the number 1 British teen mag in the 70s. Inside each issue girls could find fashion and beauty tips, gossip, short stories, problem page, also interviews with popular singers and actors and pull- out posters This ma...

and The David Cassidy Collection or as I always call them - Elliot Mintz tapes. And the connection? It's  complicated but will try to explain.  Since Elliot Mintz published those tapes on 19 December 2019, I return to them from time to time.This is the most popular video on Mr Mintz channel. Watched or rather listened to 55 300 times. Really impressive number. From the beginning fans asked Elliot about publishing more. He said that it depended on fans. If we would like to hear more we should suscribe to his free channel. Ok. I suscribed and waited. When there were 30k hits I asked Elliot if such a number was enough. He answered that only 25% of those who listened  had suscribed, and he wrote sth about 'cyber respect' . Ok. Yesterday somenone asked the same question and got the same answer.. I felt like being treated like a child a little bit. Don't get me wrong. Those tapes are priceless but I was very disappointed bc some fragments were very personal, he shouldn't ...

  Yesterday I wrote about DC's concerts in 2016, so today I should about 2017's..so far I've avoided writing about them. And I watched the last concert  only once and it was a difficult experience. Of course that year, 2017, it's a very important part of DC legacy..but ..I'm already under the weather.. I don't know why but I have a feeling that with each day people forgetting David..And  summer has gone, it's quite dark at 6pm, my 16 year old dog blames me for all that cold and damp, the cat I'm feeding doesn't want to know me, leaves are falling like crazy in my garden,  and yesterday a guy on tv said -'she was an old woman in her 50's'. Really. No comment. It was the last straw. So let's talk about sth else, about learning English. But first this wonderful song written by Kim  Carnes' husband  and DC's friend, Dave Ellingson. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3IasELb7iHo I was very frustrated in the 70s by the fact that I didn...

It's started with an article. I've been looking for sth on the DC webiste and instead found this..And of course I've read a lot of such stories, DC being first crush bc of TPF, and later how it was being a fan of his  for all those years, seeing DC in concert, even at Madison Square Garden. But there was something in it which was very moving. The author, Lisa Finn, wrote that article the day before a DC concert at The Suffolk Theater in Riverhead, NY, in April 2016.  She wrote : 'We've grown up together, we frenzied fans and our golden idol. We're different that we were all those years ago (..) older somewhat world weary. Not so easily delighted. But still, deep down, under all the polished layers and professional appearances, aren't we all still dancing, singing, screaming teeny boppers thrilled to our bones that David Cassidy is going to perform Friday night at the Suffolk Theater??'' http://www.davidcassidy.com/fansite/InPrintPages/Web2016April14....

 ... but the people may not' said David Cassidy in 2000. Of course 'talent will survive' that was what Jack told his oldest son when he became a teen idol. He was worried about him, about David's future. DC wrote and said a lot about his father. He was the most important figure in his life.. "He (Jack) never said I was worthless, but his resentment would come out in these little mean ways. Then when TPF came along, he said in an interview that I got lucky with my success and that just broke my heart.'.. I will not try to write about them, we know only DC's side of the story, and I can imagine that their relationship could have been very difficult even if Jack hadn't divorced Evelyn Ward..Two actors, two great egos, two ...they were very alike.. This  is a full interview between David and his father from Merv Griffin Show aired more than 50 years ago on August 23, 1971 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1kv1FQMJVU&t=466s Amazing conversation, sure diff...

David Cassidy :  'Ricky's Tune'  is my only composition on the album (Cherish). I recorded it not because it's a particularly good song but because it's dedicated to a dog I used to have. The dog died. It was the first time I'd written something alone (Hit Parader Magazine, November 1972)...It's a very good song.  And let's first listen to it's acoustic version from 2004. David Cassidy very rarely performed his own songs wrote in the 70s after 2000. But Ricky's Tune was a very special  also for him. It's very moving to watch DC singing it in 2004, with such love and care, the magic is not spoiled by the fact that he sang twice the same, it doesn't matter. The most important is that we can listen so to speak  to the original version of that song, it was written that way, on an acoustic guitar. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEU_kbileiY DC about "Ricky's Tune' "The song just fell out of me. As soon as I wrote it I decided...