David Cassidy Being Together

Adam Miller again, I write about him from time to time, after all his 3 songs are on 'Cherish' album - 'Blind Hope' , 'I Lost My Chance', 'Where Is The Morning', he wrote lyrics and music. I've found his version of 'Blind Hope' and still know nothing about him. 'As Long As You're There', so charming and so great to sing along kind of a song from The Partridge Family Notebook album released in November (what a month!), 1972. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FJBu4b3V18 So 49 years ago that album was released on Bell, produced by Wes Farrell. Recording dates - May 1, September 4, 22. 16 weeks on chart, the highest position, only 41. Two singles, 'Looking Through The Eyes Of Love' ,  #39 on Jan27, 1973 (8 weeks on Billboard Hot 100) and #9 on Billboard Adult Contemporary. The second single 'Friend And a Lover' did even worse, just #99 for two weeks. Why 'Walking In The Rain' wasn't chosen as a second single...

One other anniversary in November. The Love Boat. The episode with DC was aired on Nov 8, 1980, ep #4.4. David was just one of the guest stars, and not the most important one. And 1980 was a very difficult year for him. 30 year old  former teen idol ..who (as it seemed at the time) had hit bottom. It's scary when you think about DC's life and career in 1980. After the last Man Undercover episode, which was aired in January 1979, David waited for a new role a whole year , to January 1980 when he was on..'Fantasy Island' ( his old TPF's network, ABC), what more his new recorded music on which DC worked for quite a time wasn't released, and in June 1980 Ruth Aarons died. It was another personal  huge blow for David Cassidy. "When she died, I realised I had been so protected and kept away from the business that I had no professional relationships or connections.(..) I was completely lost, because I had known nothing but her guidance. (..) I was crippled by her ...

Thank you so much Sharron  for writing for us about The David Cassidy Group of Great Britain's  special meeting. It means a lot for those who couldn't be in London on November 21st. And thank you Pauline for writing how St Giles and that area in London is so important for David Cassidy fans. Sharron Liddle : 'Meeting up with friends in London to Remember David Cassidy on the Fourth Anniversary of his sad passing was extra special as we hadn't been able to see each other for a few years due to covid. We stayed at the St Giles Hotel as we usually do as it's the area that we have connected up with David's memorials and tributes, which began at the Phoenix Theatre. At the hotel restaurant, Hudson's we have a lovely picture of David hanging on the wall. This year, the restaurant set up our table of 14 with the picture placed proudly at the top so we could sit and look at it whilst we talked and enjoyed each other's company. Many conversations with each other ...

From the start, and I think it was in July, I thought it was a great idea. To write  the synopsises for all  The Partridge Family's episodes. The Official David Cassidy Website is an amazing huge library, For many years countless documents, priceless scans of thousands articles from newspapers and magazines, videos, memorabilia, fans' memories have been collected there. All of them, even if from time to time there are articles critical of David. But I feel it's very important to give everybody a chance to form own opinions, and I know that the real DC, a complex man and a wonderful singer and actor,  was much more interesting than his image. The DC Website is sth very dear to my heart, and it's a great honour for me that I have my share in it. Jane, our webmaster, thought that writing TPF's synopsises would give fans an opportunity to contribute  to the website. To do something for David's legacy.  And all fans synopsises sent to Jane  were  great, the...

Joseph Mohr and Franz Xavez Gruber, from Austria, wrote this timeless Christmas carol at the beginning of the 19th century. The most popular English lyrics were written in 1859, by an American, John Freeman Young. Maybe it's not very important, but..I'm a former librarian, I always want to know who and where and why.. But let's return to David Cassidy. Exactly 45 years after The Partridge Family Christmas Card, DC recorded Christmas standards again. David Cassidy Christmas EP, released on November 13, 2016, by Big Music, available on Amazon and iTunes. 6 songs, 15.45 minutes. Someone wrote on Amazon :'It's fairly short, but it's good and fun all around. If you are expecting David's voice to be exactly as it used to be, then you are being unrealistic. People age, there is wear and tear..' There is one very good song on that EP. The new Santa Claus Is Coming To Town is great, absolutely fantastic. This is Santa Claus not for kids, he is going to visit some...

  It's not  too early for that album. On the contrary, I've wanted to publish that blog much earlier. The Partridge Family Christmas Card was recorded in August, and released in November 1971, 50 years ago.. Fantastic recordings, great pop Christmas songs recorded in a true Partridge Family style. Masterfully played, great harmonies, and first of all wonderfully sung by 21 year old David Cassidy. Those classic Christmas songs in his interpretation still sound fresh and magical. These songs are played in my house during Christmas.. The album was recorded on August 25, 26 and 28, 1971. Musicians : Dennis Budimir, Louie Shelton, Max Bennett, Mike Melvoin, Hal Blaine. Backing vocals for David Cassidy ( and Shirley Jones) - Jackie Ward, John and Tom Bahler, Ron Hicklin. Tom Bahler - arrangement of vocal background. Produced by Wes Farrell. Where to start..maybe with my number 1. And that  magical video provides a great setting for David's voice. Beautiful, dreamy and elegant v...

I like reading fans' comments. On social media or YT, you can learn a lot that way. New info, and it's very educational to know what fans think. What they know and what they don't know. Of course David Cassidy still generates a lot of emotions, a lot of fans have strong own views and opinions and nothing will change their mind. I understand it of course, I have strong opinions myself. And, in general nothing ever surprises me..I can't say that this question 'What's wrong in being a teen idol' is  controversial, not at all, but it was written as a comment to DC's interview during which he said..'Call me bad, call me lousy, but don't call me a former teen idol'.. And today I've spent a lot of time in my car and while driving I've been thinking how I would answer that question. DC himself said in that interwiew, why he didn't like to be called a former teen idol : 'I always back away from labels, as I think it inhibits your creat...

What can I say. Dreams Are Nuthin' More Than Wishes, because  3 days ago in conversation with someone on the site I wrote - ' I'd love to ask him (Jay Gruska) about the songs they co-wrote, maybe there were more, how the work on Hard Times  looked like, why the shorter version was chosen, were they friends and met outside the studio, and about music for Ruby. Maybe Louise Poynton will talk with him for the podcast...' Great minds..Amazing. I wonder what Jay Gruska thought when he'd got my email..That DC still had a lot of fans..Yes, of course. Before I write what I think about that conversation, let's listen to one of the songs Jay Gruska has talked about on the podcast, co-wrote by him in the 80s. The country version of that hit.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IV6SI14KwpE Of course Louise  asked much more interesting questions than I could have thought about . She is a very experienced journalist, did a lot of interviews, and she is always very well prepeared...

I haven't thought  it would be so emotional. After all, 4 years it's a lot of time, and he wasn't a member of my family or a friend. A singer and an actor. David Cassidy. Sure, I write about DC nearly every day, but not only about him, also about music from many decades, other singers, pop culture, his legacy, charities..you know. A whole week  was very emotional. Jay Gruska and that other, longer version of 'Man Undercover' theme song. And Encarni's letter to David. And friends from FB Group who were to meet in London, and I couldn't go there this time. St Giles and The Phoenix Garden..I've thought that it's great that so many wanted to remember David. And yesterday evening I started listening to David Herron's 'The David Cassidy Radio Show'. I put my headphones on..that was incredible, like I was moved in time to  the 70s. Screaming girls. Audio fragments from the BBC doc 'DC Teenage Dream' and 'Weekend at Wembley', ...

 ..1970. 'I Think I Love You' became number 1 on Billboard Hot 100, for 3 weeks (19 weeks on chart). It was also number 1 in Australia and Canada, but only number 18 in the UK (February13, 1972)..More than half a century ago and nearly all of those who made this record, they died .. the writer, Tony Romeo (1938-1995), the producer, Wes Farrell (1939-1996), the arranger, Mike Melvoin (1937-2012), those great musicians - Larry Knechtel (1940-2009), Hal Blaine (1929-2019), Joe Osborn (1937-2018), Max Benett (1928-2018).. The Partridge Family's debut single, the most memorable and most successful. I think that DC had mixed feelings about that song. In the 70s he didn't perform it live very often. His concerts' opener was 'I Can Feel Your Heartbeat' or 'Summer Days' (during the World Tour), he didn't sing it at Shawfield Stadium in Glasgow on May 24, 1974, or in Manchester on May 28, he finished that last concert with 'Rock Me Baby' and 'I...

This is quite an extraordinary post, and an example of the impact DC had and has on our lives. Just when I've been thinking what I'm going to write  to David Cassidy (as I've promised in my last blog), I've got a ready letter to publish today. A wonderful letter, very personal and very moving, interesting and also very uplifting in spite that we are all sad this weekend. I've been smiling while reading about that Spanish teenage girl, her dog and David Cassidy. And I know that it wasn't easy  for Encarni to write such a long letter in English. It's a true labour of love and I'm very happy that I can publish her letter on my blog, on November 20th..And also publish the link to the wonderful video made by another amazing Spanish lady, Araceli. Thank you so much Encarni. Thank you David Cassidy, for inspiration..and for other things.. Dear David, You've known me for a long time, although this is a secret...shhh. I have never written a letter to you, or ...

During his lifetime David Cassidy got..how many letters?..a million? 2 or 3 million.. More? When one of the teen mags in the autumn of 1970 wrote that DC shopped at the Canyon Country Store, thousands of letters were sent there. Letters for David. I even once (in May) wrote a short story about it, maybe a little bit naive.. https://talkingaboutdavid.blogspot.com/2021/05/the-escape.html At the height of his fame he received 20,000 to 30,000 letters a week. It's difficult to imagine. In the early 70s. each  girl first had to choose a nice stationary, (like Petra in Allison Pearson's book, who'd thought  that DC's favourite colour was brown, so she sent him a letter in a brown envelope),  think about the content, write carefully, get a stamp and at last post it. A labour of love..  And later  they were waiting..for an answer from David.  DC :' So many of the fans actually seemed to expect me to write back to them personally.(..) One fan wrote - ' I hope my let...

  Or rather Jay Gruska, you've made my day!!! It was just a few days ago when I wrote a blog about the longer lyrics version of Man Undercover's theme song, and that I'd sent an email to Jay Gruska.This is the blog.. https://talkingaboutdavid.blogspot.com/2021/11/david-cassidy-man-undercover.html And this is  my email Dear Sir,  My name is Weronika Cyrynger and I'm David Cassidy's fan from Poland. Since December 2020 I've been writing quite a popular blog on DC and I help with running his Official Site.  I haven't found any info on your site about your collaboration with DC, and co-writing a theme song for the 'Man Undercover' tv series in 1978 . Or about writing with him 'I Never Saw You Coming' for his album 'Gettin' It In The Street' from 1976. I'm especially interested in the 'Hard Times, Hard Crimes' title song for Man Undercover, because I know there is a longer version of it ( lyrics). I know it was so many year...

David Cassidy never recorded that beautiful song, but of course he knew the whole soundtrack from 'The Music Man'. Jack taught him. DC : 'I sang mostly theatre stuff as a young kid, music from some of my dad's shows, like 'Wish You Were Here' and I learned 'The Music Man' when I was around seven. Years later I taught my own son 'The Music Man'. Because I could sing, I was always singled out in chorus and music and glee club. I was a soloist in the choir' (David Cassidy : Could It Be Forever?, 2007) 'The Music Man' debuted on Broadway in 1957, and in 1962 a movie version was made with Shirley Jones, David's stepmother ( I must remember about not fans who read my blog). Shirley was pregnant while the film was in production ( with Partick). When Shirley and her partner embraced during the footbridge scene, the baby kicked the man. The costume desingers had to adjust Shirley's dresses several times to conceal her pregnancy. So let...

David Cassidy told a journalist in an interview in 1998. And also : 'Don't call me a heartthrob, don't call me a sex symbol. Tell me I'm bad, tell me I'm lousy, but don't call me that..'  'Don't Call Me A Former Teen Idol' is also the title of the book about DC I wrote in 2018. My book is one of the things fans do for David Cassidy's memory. Yesterday I had a new reader, from Chile, and I talked about it with my very close friend, Doreen Walker , and about DC and his fans. That sure there are a lot of artists who have fans everywhere, all over the world, but David's fans are special, because they were always very faithful. This is a very interesting topic, and rather complicated one, not so black and white, and  David himself had  troubles with some fans, we can learn a lot of things from his press interviews, but yes, it's amazing how many fans were and still are faithful. In spite of everything. They run his fan clubs when he'd ...

There are quite a lot of those unreleased TPF's songs, some of them were used on the show, some were rejected more than once. 'I was Running The Opposite Way', wrote by Irwin Levine and L. Russel Brown. The lyrics was published on the Tiger Beat Specatacular, April's issue in 1972, along with 'I Am a Clown', 'Could It Be Forever' from Cherish (1972) and 'It's All In Your Mind from TPF's Shopping Bag (1972) http://www.davidcassidy.com/fansite/InPrintPages/Mag1972April_TIgerBeatSpectacular_17.pdf So the song was listed rather for 'Cherish' and later for TPF's 'Bulletin Board'. And again (probably) for the '10th' album, which wasn't released because of poor sales of 'Bulletin Board' and Bell's financial difficulties.. We know nothing for sure, just speculations, TPF was half a century ago,  and so many of those who played on TPF's tracks have passed away.  Probably those songs had been planned to b...

That postponed Wings' tour in 1976 it was probably at the end of March. In February DC was in Colorado recording 'Gettin' It In The Street' with Gerry, Dewey, Ricky, Henry and some other friends. And we know that on March 20 he sang on the French tv  'Run and Hide', and on March 28 (still in Paris), 'On Fire'. With Steve Ross.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O78YHPADwNo And when in Paris he spent some time with Paul McCartney and his band. Denny Laine : 'We were in Paris. Wings had just done a great show.(..) Afterwards we shuffled down to this press conference when we met up with our old pal David Cassidy. I remember Paul struggling to answer all these typically mundane  questions from the media while David did his best to crack us up, making faces and stuff just behind the camera.' (Geoffrey Giulliano : Blackbird. The Life and Times of Paul McCartney, 1988) I've also read that there was an interview on one of those French programmes with P...

 So as I promised two or three days ago, David Cassidy and Denny Laine, or  David and Wings, Paul McCartney's band. We all heard many times how young David watched The Beatles on The Ed Sullivan Show, on February 9, 1964, they appeared at the end of the show, at 8.12 pm, Eastern Time. It was Sunday and 73 million people watched them, truly unforgettable experience for a whole generation. Even now, after nearly 58 years we can feel this excitement. Next day millions of teens bought their first electric guitars..Among them David Cassidy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-VAxGJdJeQ Of course he couldn't imagine in his wildest dreams what would happen   6 years later. That the song sung by him would be sold more copies than the hit of the biggest pop group in the music history. And Let It Be, this timeless classic was released in March 1970, and I Think I Love You, recorded on May 11th (the first ever song recorded by David) was released on August 22nd..Number one on Nov...

After all I haven't left David Cassidy and my blog for a few days, but sometimes one's plans change. Anyway, I've just found that there is one more anniversary in that strange and unique month, November. 43 years ago, on November 2th the first episode of Man Undercover was aired, on NBC. With 'Hard Times, Hard Crimes' theme song, wrote by DC and Jay Gruska. Of course this is the same Gruska (interesting if he has Polish roots, the word gruska means a pear in my native language), who wrote with David a song for 'Gettin' It In The Street' album in 1976. This is a version of that song recorded in 1979 and released in 1991. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zs_RFSjwII He was born in 1952, and started his career in 1974, and I'm a little bit confused because on his site we can find that he co-wrote a song for Shaun Cassidy for his platinum album 'Born Late', and that he was a composer, songwriter and record producer for 'Ruby and the Rockits...

Strange, but this is the first time I'm writing about that song. And David Cassidy's version is outstanding. so powerful and personal, full of passion and despair.  From his second  solo album 'Rock Me Baby'. I love this video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5d_pC9Pk3ek 'Rock Me Baby'..great album, became nr 2 in the UK and brought some great hits, 'How Can I Be Sure' of course, and 'Rock Me Baby' and 'Some Kind of a Summer'. 'Go Now' should have been a great hit too. It's really impossible to say which of DC's Bell records is my favourite. All four of them are great. Richard Philips-Jones : 'His second album of 1972 'Rock Me Baby ' perhaps indicated more clearly where Cassidy's heart really lay. Farrell stayed as producer, but the mix of material saw the performer's own tastes. Coming through making for a somewhat schisophrenic set which mixed the expected pop ballads with rock-tinged numbers. With ...