David Cassidy Being Together

One of my fav TPF's song (I write that statement so many times), but I really mean it. Wrote by an outstanding songwriter, Mark James (born in 1940). He wrote for Elvis 'Suspicious Minds'. 'Where Do We Go From Here', a song from that amazing last The Partridge Family album, 'Bulletin Board', released nearly 49 years ago, in October 1973. Also at the same time the David Cassidy's third solo album was released too. His first without Wes Farrell. For him it was the end of being Keith Partridge. He was almost free. 'Where do we go? Where do we go from here?' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dreVCZhvbk Of course it is a very sad song, about the end of love, but I've thought about it because we nearly finish our  project for the David Cassidy Official Website, 'TPF Episode Synopsis'. We started in July last year, 96 episodes and only 9 left. 2 for me to write, and 7..I don't know, some fans volunteered to write the synopsis for those le...

said David Cassidy during the Sky Channel interview, aired on February 22, 1985. We don't have this interview on the website, only not the best copy on YT. This is something what worries me, a little bit kind of mess on that particular page of the DC Official Wbsite, the David Cassidy tv appearances in 1985.  I'm not sure that : 1. we have everything listed, 2. the dates of appearances are correct, I think we also should try to have the names of all the broadcasters, journalists, music presenters, whatever we call them, who talked with DC on those programs.. But of course I know that everything needs time, and our webmaster is so busy publishing daily updates. Anyway there are 47 programs from 1985 on the Website, most of them were made in the UK. This particular interview, I'm not sure, but I think it was Gary Davies who talked with David. Of course I didn't watch this interview in 1985 and my knowledge of the UK TV is very limited, but I think it was him. Maybe someon...

It's  still very hot, but days much shorter and we all are waiting for autumn. And the autumn (or fall as DC'd have said) makes me think about  another November 21st, that day approaching so fast..5 years. That's a lot of time. What we managed to do for his legacy..Why we can't work together, be united, we the DC's fans. Not so many of us left. What can we do to make this day special.. And while Ive been wondering I got a ready entry from my FB friend, Pauline Tombs. It seems she's been thinking about the same as me..   Let's first listen to the The Beatles' 'In My Life', that wonderful song loved and still love by millions all over the world. The song so important for David Cassidy, all his life. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqpysaAo4BQ Pauline Tombs : We have a David Cassidy connection with the Liverpool Anglican Cathedral with a brick on the Peoples Path, laid for David's love of the Beatles, John Lennon, Blood Brothers and his performi...

This entry was meant to appear yesterday, but I forgot about everything because of that amazing, wonderful surprise we had in the evening.  Fil Henley from the Wings of Pegasus recorded and released  an episode about David Cassidy !!! So far nearly 10k viewers saw the Fil's brilliant analisys of the DC's hit, 'Lyin To Myself.'  The yesterday's show title - 'WAS DAVID CASSIDY ONE OF THE MOST MISUNDERSTOOD MUSIC ARTIST !!! Wow, at last..and those comments, reading them nearly made me cry. Such love and so many people appreciated David in the past in spite of his teen idol image. There were also some comments from people who had no idea that DC'd recorded music after 1974..Just look and listen and read for yourself. Thank you Fil Henley, and of course thank you Stancy Merwin. it's because of her everything was possible. Thank you so much! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHIyW75FYlk   I'm still so excited..Wonderful. But let's return to 'Remember...

  or..man in the middle. This is so symbolic that DC was born in 1950. He was taught to love music from the first part of the century..Gershwin, Cole Porter, Irving Berlin, his fav film was Casablanca, he saw it many times, and he sang so beautifully, 'As Time Goes By'. He was so romantic, David Cassidy was.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhIl93zAuJU This is so beautiful. His voice and how he looked. Timeless.   On the other hand he loved the music of his generation, rock and blues. And himself became a pop icon. A true man in the middle, and such separate, didn't belong to any group, so it was so cruel that he was pigeonholed. 'A singer for little girls'.  I was so irritated when someone once wrote, 'DC wanted respect from his peers, and his peers were Donny Osmond and Michael Jackson.' Both of them  artists known and loved all over the world, but  first of all much younger than DC. And a lot of great, unique musicians were born the same year as David. N...

We love to discuss it from time to time. What David prefered ? Being an actor or a singer ? Of course he wanted to be an actor at the beginning..but later?  What roles he could have played ? Luke Skywalker ?..Danny from Grease ?, the names of the films are mentioned - 'Ghost', 'Pretty Woman', 'An Officer and a Gentelman'..I don't know. Personally I think he would have been great in 'Sting' and 'Great Gatsby'. The Robert Redford's characters. Both charming and on the hook with the law..especially Jay Gatsby, mysterious, complex, romantic, David would have been in 'Great Gatsby' (and looked in those wonderful clothes) sensational.  Like on Fantasy Island, when he played Jeremy Todd. http://www.davidcassidy.com/fansite/TvFilmPages/FantasyIsland1983.html Was he a great actor? I don't know, I can't be objective, I usually can't take my eyes off him, a film, a tv episode and the plot is not important. The Partridge Family ch...

Irwin Levine (1938-1997) and L. Russell Brown (born in 1940), who wrote also for TPF, 'Am I Losing You' and of course 'I Woke Up In Love This Morning'.  'All I Wanna Do Is Touch You' was released as the  B-side of 'Cherish', in September 1971. The single hit no 9 on US charts on November 13, 1971, and stayed on the charts for 11 weeks. It was David's only US Top 10 hit.. This is my one of the best 'sing along with David' song, it's so unpretentious, always makes me smile. Someone has written (in comment) - 'I blush everytime I hear the song'..I don't know what she's been thinking about, but I always think about the time when I was a teen and life was simple and..exciting. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pG17uX7M8U But I've thought about this song today while seeing another pic posted on our DC Great Britain Legacy Group. Another pic with David and a fan, or two fans. Or more. Fans hugging David, all smiling. And these...

  And tv appearances. Like that one from Spain, where DC appeared on a tv program called 'Estelar Del Sabado', in March 1973, and sang 2 songs. My FB friend, Encarni Perez tried to get it, but the tape doesn't exist any more. We have only a pic ot two. There is quite a long list of the tv programmes DC took part in, and we have just a basic info about them. We even don't have videos of all his television acting roles, the earliest ones. His first one from 1959, 'House On High Street', (episode unknown), or when he was on The Survivors (episode 7, aired November 7, 1969). There is also another one I really regret - 'This Is The Life' (another title 'The Fisher Family'), an episode from a very long running religious series. The David's character was called Gene Sander, and that episode concerned problems related to premarital sex..At least we have 2 pics..So the first his acting tv role we have, actually was his third. Ironside (Dec 25, 1969), ...

It could have been a world hit. For Cher in 1989. A song from her multi platinum album, 'Heart Of Stone'. But it wasn't released as a single. A year later David Cassidy recorded it as a duet with his future wife. I can hear their joy and happiness of working together, singing together. If someone doesn't know English, he might think that this is a very joyful song. Maybe 'Crazy Over You' should have been on that album, instead of a song already known, but it's a testimony of their happiness, and  Sue Shifrin was a very talented songwriter.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATn-z4PDi_I It's a shame that some fans have no idea about the songs Sue Shifrin wrote, but know better how  David Cassidy's private life looked like. Anyway I've thought about that songs while reading  about The London Music Walk Of Fame Criteria. DC meets the criteria on more than one count. Music Icon of course and Inspirational. He inspired many people in music business and ...

I know nothing about Steve Dossick, but he wrote one of my fav TPF's songs. Btw I think it's time for me to buy myself the wonderful Johnny Ray Miller's book , 'When We're Singin''. Shipping to Poland is..expensive, more than the book itself, but I really want to have it, and there is no other way to get it. The must have for me for sure.  So let's listen to this amazing song, recorded by the 20 year old David Cassidy. He was so young, but we can hear that he already knew that 'lovers and friends will come and go like a wind and there's nothin' any man can do..'. The song from  Season 1, Episode 2, ' The Sound Of Money', aired on October 2, 1970. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ub5S8g8Hk1U How I wish to know what Wes Farrell really had thought in 1970 about David. A lot of things can be written about Wes, but first of all he was a great professional and had a real passion for making music. The songs he chose or wrote or co-wrote, ...

It's hard to believe but I've never written about that song. Of course I watched many times DC singing it on the episode from Season 4, called 'Hate Thy Neighbor'. Never really listened to it, just admiring David's smile and his wonderful, long hair..and his amazing fabulous sweet voice..I would follow this voice everywhere..'I'll never, never get over you..' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngWVEFXplOw And it started with a huge crisis I had yesterday regarding my blog and in general being a fan. I think each and all of us, the fans who care about the David Cassidy's legacy have from time to time. Does it make sense, who really needs it ? Those videos or blogs or whatever. For example THE PETITION. London Music Walk Of Fame. Everthing is going so slow. Is it possible that after a few months only 1015 people have signed ? And they are not only fans. Even my nephew signed it, and it's really something, I'm really impressed and grateful (he is 2...

 ..that grows inside me...'  'Warm My Soul', the song wrote by a teenager, and twice recorded by David Cassidy in the 70s. The author (music and lyrics), Joerey Ortiz, at the time was only 17. Last year I was trying to find more about him. He was (or is, I have no idea if he still lives and what he does), from a very big family of Mexican and Native American origin, in entertainment for generations. And at the end of the 60s some boys (mostly), from the Ortiz family, formed a band, called themselves 'Silverbird', started writing own songs and recorded a professional album for Columbia. Wes Farrell himself was so impressed  by Joerey, that he helped him record some demos. But Joerey Ortiz was first of all a very talented songwriter. "Warm My Soul", recorded for The Partridge Family's 'Up To Date', but rejected by Wes, and with a little bit different lyrics recorded by David again for his second solo album, 'Rock Me Baby". Let's list...

Saratoga Springs..Tomorrow there is 5th David Cassidy Annual Celebration of a Triple Crown Life. Concerts and speeches and fundrising. For the fifth time. David's day at Saratoga Springs.  He would have been happy, I'm sure.  Saratoga Springs, New York, the population a little bit below 30 000. It's home to National Museum and Hall of Fame, and Saratoga Race Course, a thoroughbred horse racing track, opened in August 1863. 'This is my favourite place in the world. I played here in 1972, '73 and '74'. He wasn't good with dates, our DC. Of course he didn't play concerts in the USA in 1973 and 1974. And the first time David Cassidy performed there, at Saratoga Performing Center was on June 27th, 1971. A year later, in 1972 he had a concert again, on August 2nd. We don't have any video or audio or even a set list, so let's watch a short video from June the same year http://www.davidcassidy.com/fansite/ConcertPages/1972June25video.html But even th...

Shirley's children obviously had different fathers, but they were a great family. It's hard to imagine anyone else playing Keith, Laurie or Danny. And Tracy. And even Chris, although there were two of them. But someone else could have been Danny. Danny Bonaduce : 'They had two Partridge families at the end, and we shot two shows. Shirley was the Mom in each. David, Susan and the other kids were all in one family and I was in the other family with the bunch of other kids. The other family got the job. But Jerry (Paris, director of PF pilot) went to an editing booth and edited me into a scene with Reuben that I was never in. So I'm talking back and forth with Dave Madden and it never really happened. He showed the producers, they hired me on the spot, and we shot the third show and I got the job.' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTHW5rjHqhY The excerpt I quoted comes from an interview Danny Bonaduce gave for www.cmongethappy.com. Exactly he was interviewed by Gilmore ...

 ..been made about David Cassidy yet? He was the hottest thing in the universe back in the 70s.'. I've got it today on my Google Alerts. It was a question asked on Quora.   Another thing I've learnt about because of DC (and not the only one today). I've never heard about Quora, don't laugh. It's really amazing, a social question-and-answer website, wow.. I've already thought about some questions I'd love to ask. 300 million users a month !! Can you believe it ??. But at first I've had no idea what is it and just read the question and the answer : 'No story arc to speak of. Pretty white kid gets famous, gets old, stops being famous.' Maybe a song from that 'pretty white kid'..from New York.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kubw-zSpBaY I wish I could post this video that guy, but I would have to sign in first and answer many questions and I didn't feel like it. Now that other thing Ive learnt today.  The word 'arc', in conne...

I wrote the last entry 2 days ago, very short one about Olivia Newton-John's passing..And I thought that my next one would be called - '1000'. 1k signatures signed for David Cassidy, Music Walk Of Fame Artist Stone Honour. But we still don't have that number and who knows how long it will take to achieve that very modest goal. I've written about it several times, nothing more to say really.  We cherish each person who has signed and especially those who's found time to write something. Why David deserves that recognition. We know why..Especially the UK's fans should  know and remember https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GiM62mj5j-g 'If I Didn't Care', David's #9 hit in the UK, in May 1974. An extraordinary DC's cover of that very successful song. The Ink Spots recording from 1939 became the 10th best selling single of all time with over 19 million copies sold. Can you believe it? I got to know this song thanks to David. Let's listen to Th...

I wasn't an Olivia Newton-John fan. I can't say I know her music, even that like all of us I know quite a lot about her life, and first of all about her courage and fight with the horrible illness which killed her..Stunningly beautiful girl, blond hair, botomless eyes, and  that smile. So charming and sweet. Sweet voice, instantly recognizable..A beautiful, classy woman. 'Grease' wasn't shown at our cinemas in the 70s. But my best school friend Lucy was desperately in love with John Travolta (our friendship has survived it), and she had some pics and also the film's soundtrack...nearly every day I had to listen to 'Summer Nights' and ..you know what. So I wasn't a fan, but yesterday I felt so sad, it was hard when I heard..As if the sun had gone for a moment.. I've phoned Lucy today and we had a very, very long talk, also about Olivia Newton-John. And we cried a little bit.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBo_eDreKtk You can't imagine how ma...

It's happened that today I've been surprised (just a little bit) by two statements. Made by 2 former David's fans. The first one was 16-year-old Denise. Once a die-hard fan, in 1974 she said : (according to the article) - 'He's definitely had it. Even the little girls don't like him', and 'I don't even like to remember about liking David Cassidy.'  Of course it's easy to explain, she outgrown her idol, maybe was even ashamed by the power of her old feelings for him. The other fan was one of my own English friends, who has told me today, that it's pathetic that some old women still admire a young boy's pics. Some old women - it's us, the DC's fans who still love looking and admiring the young David's pics. I've thought to myself - 'You lose an awful lot of fun, sugar', but I haven't said anything. There was no point.  This is the link to the article http://www.davidcassidy.com/fansite/InPrintPages/News1974Ja...

I've written about Adam Miller a few times, my true idee fixe. Yesterday I spent some hours in my car and of course David's music was playing. Also 'Cherish' album. There are 11 songs on it, 3 of them wrote by Adam Miller, and I still know nothing about him. A person who publishes his music on YT calls him 'mysterious'. Let's listen first to David Cassidy singing one of Adam's songs from 'Cherish',  'Where Is The Morning'. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQ2U5PFYw8g Of course I know a little bit, how he looked like, that he played  guitar, collaborated with John Cale (Velvet Underground) and with the Velvet's vocalist and Andy Warhol's muse,  German singer Nico. Both Adam Miller albums (1972, 1974) were produced by Wes Farrell, released on the Wes's own label, Chelsea Records. Terry Cashman and Tommy West also produced some of his songs and even did backing vocals on them. On his first record played : Max Bennett, Larry Carlto...

Today's blog has started with my impatience. The London Music Walk Of Fame.  Yesterday quite a lot of people signed the petition and I thought we would achieve 1000 signatures very quickly. But I was wrong. Where are the fans? Those who belonged to the David Cassidy Fan Clubs, the official ones and those run by fans themselves.. So I've browsed Internet searching for some info, (aimlessly really), and suddenly I discover how many articles are actually about David Cassidy a fashion icon. His feather cut and puka shells. And ..surprise, surprise, quite a lot of men admit years later that they thought that David was cool. Like that guy.. https://stevehigginslive.com/2015/01/24/david-cassidy-and-a-haircut-in-1975/ And of course the feather/shag cut is in vogue again (it was in the 90s too) and also nearly every article about the 70s hairstyles  mention David. https://hair-and-makeup-artist.com/mens-1970s-hairstyles/ The same can be said about pukka shells. In an article from 2019 ...

or 'The Partridge Family's episode I've never seen'. 'Maid In San Pueblo'. I saw it only yesterday. So the song first..   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRN792lClEg How to put it..Not very suitable for Chris or Tracey, or the PF's young audience. David's interpretation of The 5th Dimension's hit from 1969 is very sensual. His voice like melted honey. Wonderful, but not for kids. Anyway this recording was never released on vinyl. Let's listen to The 5th Dimension. The arrangment and vocals from another era.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O61xIdRTTDQ But how did it happen that I watched that episode only yesterday? I got the whole TPF's collection 4 years ago as a present. It was so extraordinary, so generous, and very unexpected. I felt like a little girl who got on Christmas the largest doll house in the world.. I just couldn't believe it. So for a few days I was too overwhelmed to actually watch them. At last I decided to start, from ...

Being a David Cassidy's fan in the 70s..in the UK. Now those lucky ones who saw him in concerts in Manchester, London or Glasgow, waited for him at Heathrow or Luton, besieged The Dorchester or tried to get on the deck of Ocean Sabre, now they can write and submit their stories with The Museum Of Youth Culture. Sharron Liddle contacted the Museum and they said they want and need David Cassidy memorabilia. It's a great, fantastic news.  https://museumofyouthculture.com/submit/ Fans can now submit photos, flyers, ticket stubs and write how they loved David Cassidy and his music. But will they do it ? And how many? And why I'm skeptical, sorry. I wish I wasn't.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3IasELb7iHo I have some very good English friends, we talk every day, we've met in person, we know everything about each other, we are real friends. In 2017 and 2018 they told me a lot of stories about being a DC fan. Sometimes it wasn't easy, especially for one of them who l...

I've been talking with my daughter today about the old tv shows we once liked, and that now is possible to watch them again on Netflix. For my daughter (she's a little bit younger than Katie Cassidy) 'old' means sth from the beginning of the 21st century. And I said how I'd loved to watch 'Malcolm in the Middle', because I missed it when it was on our tv, and I loved the episode with David, it was so funny.. 'David was on it ?? Malcolm in the Middle? Really?'..'Yes, he was. 'Vegas' episode. He was an actor, and a good one, not just an eye candy. And I can tell you that he was a friend with Bryan Cranston, who also directed that episode with DC'. 'With Bryan Cranston??? He is a very known actor.'..'David Cassidy was very known too..even more.'  Yes, they were friends, and Bryan does sth really extraordinary every year before Christmas. He puts the David's framed autographed pic in his backyard.. pear tree. You can r...