The Last Kiss And..Young Love

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I've been listening to 'Romance' album recently. I'm not a fan of all the tracks, there are two songs which in my opinion could have been different and better, 'Someone' and 'Tenderly'. I have some English friends who have told me many times that one day I fell in love with those songs. I love this video, David in a fabulous suit singing 'Someone'.  What a man, what a performer..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AS3DUlY4t_0

Why David Cassidy recorded such album? How Alan Tarney became his producer? How that collaboration looked like? Why he toured only the UK? There are many questions, David Cassidy wrote a little bit in his autobiography, but not everything of course. In one of the articles from 1985 he said his comeback was also his new wife inspiration. "One night we were dancing cheek to cheek and I was singing very softly to her ear. She told me that I had such a wonderful voice that it was such a shame to waste it." Charming and so true about his voice.

https://www.davidcassidy.com/fansite/InPrintPages/News1985May11DailyMail.pdf

But David Cassidy already in 1983 was working in the recording studio in Nashville, but nothing came of this. He even said in one interview about working on a pilot of a series of comedy half-hours with one of The Partridge Family producers. He had a success with 'Joseph And The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat', but it wasn't a kind of success he dreamt about. Judy West, my FB friend saw DC twice on Broadway in 'Joseph', and she didn't have problems with getting tickets, she was also surprised that the theater was much smaller than she'd expected and that there was not a standing ovation after the show.

https://talkingaboutdavid.blogspot.com/2022/11/seeing-david-in-joseph-by-judy-west.html 

Later when DC toured with 'Joseph' was even less glamorous, instead a lot of travelling and hard work, usually 2 shows a day. He worked so hard on 'Jesus Christ Superstar' but again it was disappointment, he hoped for a tour with it..So in 1984 came time for another reinventing, another new start, he was only 34, still a heartthrob material, he wanted to be really successful again, to earn good money, he wanted to be a superstar once more.

I think it was Dick Leahy who chose Alan Tarney as the David's producer. Dick Leahy managed Bell Records in the UK in the 70s, and besides David Cassidy, he supervised careers of Tony Orlando and Dawn, Gary Glitter and Showaddywaddy to name a few. He signed the Bay City Rollers to the label after seeing them performing in a club. And of course in the 80s he not only worked with George Michael, but became his mentor. When David came to London in 1984 he lived with Dick Leahy and his wife..

Enough. It's a fascinating story and I've already written a lot. The most interesting is music, and how David Cassidy rewrote some of the Cliff Richard's songs. And today I've listened for the first time to 'Young Love', the song which became 'The Last Kiss'. 'Someone', wrote by Alan Tarney could have been a great song too..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAVADLRn17E

David Cassidy on Good Morning Britain. February 21, 1985. The Official David Cassidy Website

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