Hollywood Nights / Bob Seger

-

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=UAKCR7kQMTQ

Wow!..Amazing  and timeless..And Ian..The 70s..But let's return to David Cassidy and his career in LA.

I know I must have  been  very naive because when I started reading about DC and TPF, it's struck me as sth very strange that Hollywood was so small. I mean everyone knew everyone, it was a very small world of  directors, actors, script writers, producers, agents, journalists.  I've mentioned  Alan Oppenheimer recently, he was 3 times on TPF and with David on Ironside in 1969 ( here they are together from 3.56 min)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzxTpNRVrMw&t=1131s

Or John Martin who was Shirley's love interest on 'When Mother Gets Married' in 1970 and earlier that same year  David's father on 'Marcus Welby'. or Vic Tayback - 3 TPF's episodes and later with DC on 'The Night The City Screamed'. Mel Swope - TPF, Police Story and Man Undercover's producer and his daughter appeared in one of TPF's episodes. Meredith Baxter in the late 70s was .. Susan Dey's sister in 'Little Women'..The list could go on and on.They went to the same schools, they met at the same auditions,  parties, really a small village Hollywood, a lot of gossip was going on and later those stories appeared in the press. A network of connections and acqauintances. For example everybody knew and it was written quite a lot about, that David and Meredith didn't meet on TPF's set. they met much earlier and that  he had a broken heart for quite a time...

DC's great, live version of Hollywood Nights.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWK2zs-D3jM

So what about this tale we heard so many times? Renee Valente (casting director TPF ) : Somebody had called to tell me about David Cassidy (..) What made David the right choice was he had the look. (..) I didn't know Shirley was David stepmother until just before a screen test. I thought David was so right for the part that I did something that I'd never done before. I said to David : ' We can't mention your relationship to anybody at the company.' (David Cassidy : Could It Be Forever?, 2007)

Once more Hollywood Nights

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5QTHSw15Ow



https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9d/Encino%2C_Los_Angeles%2C_CA%2C_USA_-_panoramio_%28161%29.jpg

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Robyn Millan

-
Image
  I learnt yesterday that Robyn Millan died last year. Someone published a post about the TPF's episode where she'd appeared as a guest star, 'Dora, Dora, Dora', Season 2 episode 1, aired 50 years ago, on September 17, 1971..And there was a comment about that episode that the script was poorly written, sexist etc. Maybe, no one would dare write something like that now, but the world looked different half a century ago..And I really felt sad yesterday because of Robyn. She started her short career in 1965, 33 credits, mostly tv roles - Mission:Impossible, The F.B.I, Hawaii 5.0, Ryan's Hope..But we would remember her as Dora, the girl Keith fell in love with, and Robyn, the girl David dated for a while.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmZnk9RFKm0&t=1s  In December 1971 on Photoplay Magazine an interview with Robyn was published :' He is just marvellous and really knows how to handle his success.(..) We hit it off from that first day six months ago.(..) I resp...
Read more

Love Is All That I Ever Needed. A David Cassidy Biography. Chapter 1

-
Image
  Chapter 1 The Divorce David Bruce Cassidy was born on April 12, 1950 in New York City. He was born into show business, it was running in his blood. His parents were young and glamorous working actors. Jack Cassidy was 23 years old, Evelyn Ward 3 years older, both very busy with their career, frequently touring and absent. David spent his early years with his maternal grandparents in West Orange, New Jersey, just 20 miles from New York. He felt he was different from other kids, didn’t exactly fit in, his school friends’ parents didn’t look like his, they had ordinary jobs, like his grandfather, Frederic Ward, who all his life worked as a utility meter reader. David was a small child, slightly built, and had to wear glasses. During his life he underwent 5 eye operations. It wasn't easy to be the youngest, and not to have a brother or a sister. Someone to fight with, but also to play with, and to share love, good and bad experiences. He was a lonely child, brought up by honest,...
Read more

'He Was So Pretty You Couldn't Look Away..'

-
Image
'and sexy in a way that is timeless.' It's from Kevin Fallon's article published on www.thedailybeast.com on November  22, 2017.  Maybe it's not the smartest thing to do, but the newest article about David Cassidy on Record Collector Magazine, and first of all different pointsview of it, made me have a look on some articles published after this horrible day,  November 21, 2017. But first a song. We experience another heat wave here in Poland, I haven't seen a rain in many days, which is scary, so maybe a song about a rainy day. We miss David on any day, and this is one of his best songs. And amazing, very moving tribute video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJ6qjfK72L8 We have 42 web articles from November and December 2017, on the website, and I can't see Kevin Fallon's on the list, even that I'm sure I sent it Jane last year, because this is not the first time I'm writing about this article. I'm a former librarian, I believe everything sho...
Read more