Remember Me / Alan Tarney

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This song from David Cassidy's 1985 album somehow the best sums up what I think about the 50th anniversary of DC's World Tour, and the end of Season 4 of The Partridge Family.

But first Neil Sedaka's birthday. He was born on March 13, 1939, and what an amazing career. "Oh, Carol!" was a hit in 1959, 3 years before I was born. Not only a singer but also an outstanding songwriter, actually "Love Will Keep Us Together' was written by him and Howard Greenfield. Amazing story about those two..

When Neil Sedaka was 13, a neighbour heard him playing piano and introduced him to her 16-year-old son, Howard Greenfield, an aspiring poet and lyricist. And they started writing songs together. Among them 'Breaking Up Is Hard To Do'. It was a hit in 1962, and between 1970 and 1975 a top 40 hit for 3 artists, for Neil for the second time, Lenny Welch and of course for The Partridge Family.

And a few days ago I saw a pic from Neil Sedaka's this year birthday party. He looked still quite healthy and there were two ladies with him. One very famous - Annie Lennox and another one not so known (also a musician), but when I read her name the music started playing in my head. Wendy Melvoin, Mike Melvoin's daughter. He was the music director on The Partridge Family recordings, jazz pianist, composer and arranger. He made of 'Summer Days' a pop masterpiece.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtAv3gY8iLo

In March 1974 David Cassidy played concerts in Australia, Hong Kong and Japan. 13 gigs and a lot of press conferences, meetings with fans, but also he attended discos, went to night clubs, there were parties, days at the races, and he met a lot of beautiful ladies. We can read about it in many articles from that time. When the last Partridge Family's episode was aired, on March 23, 1974, David on that day arrived in Osaka. I don't know what I've expected..If he had lived everything would have been different. A concert maybe, interviews. 

Only fans remember.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-9oHk0aFjY

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