David Cassidy On the Bravo-Disco 37 Hits Chart

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In September 1975, David Cassidy's single, 'Get It Up For Love' topped very important in Europe, 'Bravo' chart. 'I Write the Songs' got to #7. But that was not everything,  David's first RCA album, 'The Higher They Climb, The Harder They Fall', on that same chart, in the same week, peaked at number 1. So impressive. Bravo readers voted David Cassidy the best singer in 1973, 1974 and 1975, and the 3rd one in 1976. We should also remember that  'Bravo' was read not only in West Germany, but everywhere in Europe, by millions of teens on both sides of the Iron Curtain.  

But knowing and seeing are two different things and it was something special for me to see a screenshot from Bravo posted yesterday, on our Great Britain Group. With that chart from September 1975.

David Cassidy was in Europe in June and July 1975,  to promote his music. The first stop was London, later he was in Holland, Germany, Spain, Italy and France. Henry Diltz was with him, and besides working DC had time to behave like any other tourist and see the sights. He guest starred on some TV music programes, also in Germany. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbJrCIbSn9E

What a wonderful song. That pulsating rhythm, arrangements, David's voice. Number one on Bravo Hits Chart, it should have been a hit everywhere..And seeing this chart has been emotional because it remainded me again, that in the 70s it was the censors who decided what music young people could listen to in the countries behind the Iron Curtain. Someone decided that David Cassidy was a worthless singer for little girls, what worse he was an American, so his songs weren't played in Poland. I was constantly listening to music played on our radio in 1975. I remember so well most of the hits from that chart, ABBA, 10CC, BCR, Mud and the rest, but I never heard David Cassidy on our radio..

Info about David, his marriage and about his role as Dan Shay on 'Police Story' and 'Man Undercover', his pics and posters, appeared on Bravo also in later years, in 1977 and 1978. When he returned in 1985, already in February on Bravo was published an article called, 'David Cassidy's Comeback'. Why DC didn't tour Germany in 1985? Or why he didn't decide touring Germany in 1975? It could have been different than in London in 1974.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_6cwUso8CA

The pic, Bravo mag , January 6, 1977.


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