'I Like To Make People Happy..' Part 1

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We write a lot about David Cassidy's complex personality, about his struggles, the price he paid for his early fame. Everything is true. There is a sentence in his autobiography which is really hard to read. Showing what a horrible impact his parents' divorce had on him. The way he learned about it.

David Cassidy : 'There's a certain naivety in unconditional trust because, for the most part, as we all learn, people disappoint you. To pharaphrase Carole King. you can expect to have pieces of your heart torn out along the way, and people will desert you.' (David Cassidy : Could It Be Forever?, 2007, p.7)

But there was also a happy David, and I want to write at the end of the old year, 2023, something upflifting, put links to some happy songs and funny videos, David Cassidy had a great sense of humour. And something more. 
He said in 1999, ' I like to make people laugh, and I like to make them happy. I've had that since a very early age. (..) there's a lot that I get in return from the audience'

And he made us very happy indeed. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJZRRekOYqk&t=50s

We know that his mother called him 'Smilin' Sam', and we can see him smiling on the very first photographs, a small boy, often with glasses, smiling, riding a bike, playing with his cousins. In spite of problems with school, his teenage years were also very happy. 

Recently DC's school friend, Gary Abelov posted some memories on David Cassidy Greatest Fans Group, how they had a lot of fun in the 60s, riding skateboards, go carts, bikes, how they started smoking Marlboros, and did those other things teenage boys do..Gary Abelov: 'Believe me, these were very happy days in all of our lives.' We have also very similar Sam Hyman's memories from that time

https://www.davidcassidy.com/fansite/InPrintPages/2012%20Sam%20Hyman%20interview.pdf

35 - year - old David Cassidy behaving like a school boy at The Royal Albert Hall, 1985...I love it. 

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

David wrote in his book that his dad, 'had a real flair for comedy, often playing vain, shallow buffoons'. We can say the same about David, that comedy was natural for him, which was one of the reasons he was so good as Keith Partridge. Paul Jurgen Witt (producer/director), '..we were looking for someone who could act and could at least show potential for learning how to do comedy. It takes an actor a long time to become adept at comedy.(...) David was the guy. He could do it all.' (David Cassidy: 'Could It Be Forever?, 2007, p.68)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqhVGu2xYfI&t=352s


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