Somebody Wants To Love You / Wes Farrell, Jim Cretecos and Mike Appel

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One of my favourite. So very uplifiting, performed and sung with such a bravado, I can bet they had a lot of fun recording it, those wonderful experienced musicians : Dennis Budimir, Louie Shelton, Tommy Tedesco, Joe Osborn, Max Bennett, Larry Knechtel, Mike Melvoin, Hal Blaine and that 20 year old boy, for the first time in the recording studio, David Cassidy. This song was recorded on the same day as "I Think I Love You'. On May 16 th, 1970. 

DC : ' I was nervous. I didn't want to screw up or cause problems for all these pros who had no idea who I was. We'd be chatting and I'd hear some voice on the loudspeaker saying, 'Could you please ask the singer, whatever his name is, to shut up?' Or we'd start to do a take and some voice would request, 'Can you ask the singer not to slow down?', or 'Can you ask the singer not to rush?' I was totally overwhelmed by the experience." (David Cassidy : Could It Be Forever?, 2007)

Only Dennis Budimir and Louie Shelton remain..

'Somebody Wants To Love You. The song from the episode called 'Love At First Slight', Season 1, Episode 6. First aired, October 30, 1970

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXk15tpfd9Q

Wonderful video. Claire Wilcox' beautiful smile. Born in 1955 in Canada, she debuted in 1961, appeared on many famous tv series, and twice on TPF. First as Cathy so smitten with Keith, and later as Cindy, in 'Whatever Happened to Keith Partridge', in 1972. But it was her last ever credit, and she disappeared.. Lane Bradbury who was the Keith's love interest on 'Love At First Slight' was already a known and experienced actress. She was 32..

And in a way that episode was so prophetic, because for the next 4 years young girls were chasing David Cassidy, a lot  followed him wherever he went, and DC himself..dated older girls, those not so ..smitten.

So once again, 'Hey, stop, stop! And look around..Somebody wants to love you'. This time John Gomolka's version

http://www.davidcassidy.com/fansite/DiscographyPages/Somebody%20Wants%20To%20Love%20You_JohnGomolkaVersion.mp3

AND PLEASE SIGN THE PETITION

https://chng.it/NgppymDR6K

The screenshot, The Official David Cassidy Website

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