Message To The World / David Cassidy, Sue Shifrin

-

 A war is going on just behind our border and already we have more than 120 000 refugees in Poland. A sea of people, mostly women and children, their husbands and fathers and brothers have stayed in Ukraine to fight. So maybe it's not time for writing about David Cassidy ? Of course it is. 1. Because we should live normal and don't panic. 2. Because David always cared and helped many in need.

David Cassidy and charities and fundrising events..So many. Always, in every decade. In the 70s when he was the most busy David never said no. 'Keep Britain Tidy', ( and Keep Australia Beautiful) The Special Olympics. AIDS benefit concerts in the 80s. And his Golf Tournament and Alzheimer's charities, and so many things he did anonymously. 

David Bridger : 'It was a time (in the 70s) when it wasn't fashionable in the rock and roll world to lend your name to anything that was establishment. (..) I don't know how he found time for everything.'

So 'Message To The World' a song wrote by David and his wife, Sue Shifrin, released for the first time in 1990..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLQ-6a7zrU8

And later they recorded updated version of that song to help the Kosovo refugee children. The war in Kosovo started on February 28, 1998 and lasted until June 1999.

 Sue Shifrin : 'The lyrics is about a person who is in a war in a place where they were being forgotten. (..) We donated the song to War Child USA to sell online to rise money to help kids who were victims of the heinous treatment of the civilians of Kosovo.(..) David recorded 'a guide vocal', the lead vocal that would guide the other thousands of voices of celebrities and ordinary Americans that we wanted on the record..'

It was done using The John Lennon Educational Tour Bus, a mobile recording studio.. Sue again : 'At the Woodstock revival festival. we had almost 100 000 people singing on this song. (..) We raised a lot of money and I'm really proud of that.' (David Cassidy : Could It Be Forever?, 2007)

http://www.davidcassidy.com/fansite/BiographyPages/Kosovo.html

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