David Cassidy, Man Undercover

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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' , but not a word about Man Undercover or 'I Never Saw You Coming'. Anyway he is a very successful tv and film composer..

So let's listen to the theme song from Man Undercover 'Hard Times, Hard Crimes'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEK4dvIBkeg 

And I've learnt just a few days ago (thank you Tracey Wright once again) that there is a full, longer version of that song. Or rather lyrics' longer version, and it was never released. I wonder if a demo had ever existed..And I don't know how I've found courage, but actually I've written to Jay Gruska himself and asked him..I don't think he will answer my email..but who knows. The things we do because of David Cassidy, like writing emails to American's composers ..Amazing.

That full version lyrics is very interesting. While reading it I've been wondering.. I think about the same what DC must have, that Dan Shay's life, the police officer's he played, must have been difficult, it was very hard to leave his job outside, and his married life must have suffered from it. It was something what DC knew very well. That double life. How to be a teen idol and have normal relationships with people..how to be a police officer who works undercover..as a thief, drug addict or ..a pimp

'..Warm like the smile, of the woman who makes you believe what you're doing is right..'

'..Caught in her eyes you shed your disguise, than you leave it  behind, and in too short a time you find..you're undercover..'

http://www.davidcassidy.com/fansite/TvFilmPages/DCManUndercoverTheme.html


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