Baby, Please Don't Go / Joe Williams

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I'm still under the spell. It's like discovering a new, excitng David Cassidy's recording. And it's new, at least for me, because I've never heard David performing this famous, first blues, later also rock standard. And not only 'Baby, Please Don't Go' is simply sensational, but the rest of that Rock Medley, including 'Rock Me Baby', performed in Japan, on March 28, 1974. I don't know what they had before that concert, DC and his band, but this is just incredible. ROCK! It's the only word to describe that performance. Absolutely amazing, powerful and exciting. I've wanted to scream myself listening to it 50 years later.. And he was called 'a singer for little girls'..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCvKUTQ7puQ

I'm not surprised that this outstanding audio recording hasn't interested many fans. Most fans want to see  David's pics or discuss his love life. That's how it used to be and that's how it is now. David Cassidy was such a phenomenon in the early 70s...Nothing has changed really. His image, David Cassidy the man was and is more important than David Cassidy the artist.

I'm reading today concert reviews from 1972, we have quite a collection on the website. A lot about his young audience, girls screaming and fighting for the best place, about DC concert act, his outfits and his stage movements, and in many reviews we can read that DC was a great, hard working entertainer, he knew very well  what his audience wanted to see.. about money he earned (and his promoters), least about the music he played, but there are exceptions.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YcZnUSHLvc

There is one very interesting concert review, written by Anna Quindle, who saw DC performing on June 24, 1972. Some fragments, 
"For all his money and adoring fans, Cassidy seems to be a prisoner of his own popularity. He is a good performer, even excellent at times, but he has been trapped into making mediocre music by the demands of his audience.." 
"His execution of an old rhythm and blues song 'Stop' was excellent.."
"Two songs which he written himself, though not crowd-pleasers, were exceptionally good.." 
"They (his audience) did not come to see how well he could sing.." 

"David Cassidy should be a happy man. But, if he has ever compared his potential as a performer, to his concert output, he probably isn't."


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