David Cassidy On Strictly Come Dancing.

-

I can't find now, but I remember reading in one interview how DC said that showing up was a big part of this business. Show business. He always knew that, how important it was. Industry events, TV appearances. And in the 60s he could watch quite often his father, Jack, on popular show game, 'Password'. I've watched one episode too, from November 1966. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YB0R3mzgvU&t=3s

David Cassidy took part in many shows, game and others, also as a contestant. The first ever video with DC on the website is Dating Game (June 19, 1970). In November 1977 he took part in 'Celebrity Challenge of the Sexes', and as we all know he was beaten by Susan Saint James in a swimming event. He lost, but we have outstanding pics, David comforted by his wife, Kay Lenz.

In 1982 there was another challenging show, called 'The Grand Prix All Star Show'. In 1988 DC appeared on extremely popular at the tme, 'Win, Lose or Draw'. Maybe he was invited on it by Bert Convy, with whom he befriended on the set of The Partridge Family. Bert Convy was multi talented man, a very promising athlete when a teen, a singer who had a Top 10 hit with a vocal band he joined in 1955. an actor and a very known game-show host. In the 80s he formed with Burt Reynolds an own production company, and 'Win, Lose or Draw' was their first production. It was a great success with a lot of international versions. Also in Poland.

Let's watch a short fragment with David.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ce7t0A5kAKY&t=35s

That was his job, the way he earned money he needed so badly in 1988. I think he also had some fun, it was an opportunity to remind people about himself and meet old friends, like Bert Convy, who died just 3 years later, only 57.

There were other game shows in later years, after 2000, but a lot of us had a big surprise a few days ago watching David Cassidy on a dance contest show, popular all over the world, Strictly Come Dancing.  He wasn't a contestant of course, or a judge (it would have been awful), he was interviewed about the show, and according to website it was on November 16, 2006. But I like checking everything myself and actually that episode (it was Season 4) was aired on November 18, and it was watched by nearly 10 millions viewers. So this interview must have been pre-recorded.

https://www.davidcassidy.com/fansite/TvFilmPages/2006Nov16_StrictlyComeDancing.html?fbclid=

What can I say? A big audience and of course David was a celebrity in the UK, so why not..

But what David Cassidy was doing in London in November 2006? He was 56 years old and still was working very hard, didn't spare himself. He played concerts in the USA on November 3, 4, 5, and on November 8,9,10,11 and 12 he performed in The Rat Pack is Back at Mohegan Sun Cabaret Theatre in Uncasville. And on November 14 he was in London, appeared at a press conference at the Hard Rock Cafe...Enough, it's tiring just writing it..

Let's finish with the song we all know and love, and I've been singing it today with David, in my car..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_PlFC4xhUw

The pic, The David Cassidy Official Website. David Cassidy on "Win, Lose or Draw', 1988


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