David Cassidy on The Wolfman Jack Show

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 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 it's a thoroughly enjoyable piece of mainstream mid- 70s pop.' (Stephen T. Erlewine, AllMusic)

David on The Wolfman Jack Show. For me this is DC at his best. In 1976. The voice and everything. The music he played..and you know..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1X6JK-ncfrM

But was it really recorded in October 1976? I think that it could be. But first some explanations. I've never heard about that man, Jack Wolfman, but it seems he was a legend of his own. Born as Robert Weston Smith in 1938 in New York, in the 60s he was a very famous radio DJ, a real personality, and that Jack Wolfman was his alter ego. He was such a cult figure that he appeared in some movies as himself, for example in the famous George Lucas' film 'American Graffiti. In the 70s he was more mainstream and had his own programme, The Wolfman Jack Show, it was aired from October 5, 1976. There were 26 episodes and the list of guest stars were really impressive - ABBA, Blood Sweat And Tears, Jose Feliciano, Tom Jones, Del Shannon, Dionne Warwick, The Pointer Sisters, Gladys Knight. It was produced in Canada and syndicated to stations in the USA. 

For us the most important is that on that programme David Cassidy sang his own song, 'Junked Heart Blues'..I don't know how many times I've watched it..and never have enough..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6QGYBCU4pI

There is a full episode with DC on You Tube, you can see there a small scene he performed with Jack, and a short conversation  about the radio interview and a fridge fixed by DC.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TNvNeEYmRg&t=815s

Jack Wolfman died in 1995, from a heart attack at his home, shortly after finishing a weekly broadcast.


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