'David. Do His Kisses Mean Danger?'

-

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 Website. Maybe someone still has those discs and will share with us..

http://www.davidcassidy.com/fansite/DiscographyPages/PF_Fan_Club_FlexiDisc1971.mp3

http://www.davidcassidy.com/fansite/DiscographyPages/TalkingRecords.html

Girls removed DC's pics from those magazines and put them in scrapbooks..2 years ago I had a chance to see an amazing collection of such scrapbooks made in the 70s by one of my English friends..It took me nearly 4 hours to watch all of them, and while doing it I repeated..many times- 'wow!' and 'amazing !'..On the other hand a lot of magazines were destroyed bc of those scrapbooks and it's a shame that we don't have more articles on the website. I'm really grateful for Carmen who keeps taking scans of her collection for us, They are priceless. Thank you so much for your work.

http://www.davidcassidy.com/fansite/InPrintPages/Magazines.html

At first, in 1970, David tried to collaborate with teen mags, it was part of his job after all. His closest friend Sam Hyman even started writing (actually he didn't do the writing only told some stories to ghostwriters) a monthly column for 'Tiger Beat', called 'Living With David'..

The girls wanted to know everything about David - 'Where he lives? How his home looks like? What he eats for breakfast? For lunch? For dinner? Favourite drink. Fav food. Fav colour. Fav singer, film, animal. Hobbies. What kind of girls he likes? With blond, black or red hair? Does he prefer girls with long or short hair? With blue, green or brown eyes? Has he got a girlfriend? Why not? What he thinks..' 

In 1970  he was sincere, but very quickly there was a real madness, even the titles on the covers became scary : 'Help! David's In Danger!, 'Why David Cries And Cries?', 'Danger Ahead! David Wants You!', 'Why David Must Leave You Forever?' and my fav title (not so scary) - 'Win David's Love. Find Out How.'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FsPFzK6X4g

There were endless contests, eg. 'Make seven words out of 'David Cassidy' (those two delicious words!) and win personally autographed TPF album, with a special message from David' (Flip mag, Jan 1971). Poems were written for him..

He tried to stop it, even talked with Larry Utall about it, but it was too late. Too many people earned a lot of money on him. Nobody cared what David  thought..

xxxxxxx

And one more thing. Ron Tutt, a legendary famous drummer died 3 days ago. He played for Elvis, Ray Orbison, Billy Joel, the Carpenters, Neil Diamond..and for David Cassidy. On that track :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OwbPy6r5wTk&t=43s




Comments

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