"I'll Say 'I Love You.."

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I've got a wonderful, generous present while in the UK. 

It's an old album, released 48 years ago, but it looks like brand new. Great quality sound, recording session photos (by Henry Diltz), the liner notes (by DC). Great photographs of those amazing, creative young musicians, working together on David Cassidy's fabulous second RCA album. And having fun. 

Yes, I've got my own 'Home Is Where The Heart Is..' vinyl album. Thank you so much Lee.

Despite the fact that we also have a song about breakdown, it is the most joyful of all the albums recorded by David Cassidy. He had great hopes about it, he knew he was working on something really special. He was more in control, co-produced it, wrote or co-wrote 7 of 10 songs. His voice was even better than on the first RCA album. There was confidence and optimism, joy of working together, and the liner notes reflect the mood during the recording of this amazing album. 

'On Fire' /David Cassidy, Bill House "I, feeling most egocentric played all the acoustic guitars I could lay my hands on, and I, uh, sang the lead vocal. (..) Actually this song I wrote on me high string one night in front of the heater and with a little help from my pal, Steve. I had it in about four minutes. (..) So after all was said and done I love it, and Bill then confessed when I first played it for him he didn't think much of it. We both think it's our one of the best together."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O78YHPADwNo

'Tomorrow'/ Paul and Linda McCartney. "I think it was the night that we cut this song that we for the first time together became a band. For me who had spend his life in the studio having fine men, who's main interest were to be fine studio players and make the next session on time, was an overwhelming trip"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vsuhi6UnX-k

'Breakin' Down Again'/David Cassidy, Bill House. "This was the first song we cut together for that album - which seems like I wasn't shaving yet at this point it was so long ago. (..) Actually we wrote this one at a break during a backing vocal session on the last album, you remember that one  right kiddies? I was sittin' at the keys and working on this idea and Bill strolled up real casual like, as is his style and we just wrote it. Where I got a void, - he'd fill right in. The easiest song I ever wrote."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F__G0U8GmrM

'Bedtime'/ Gerry Beckley, David Cassidy, Ricky Fataar. "Gerry wrote and played me this beautiful little song the first part and I loved it a lot, so he asked me to finish it or maybe I asked him anyway no matter, I gathered up Ricky and took him to my house early one morning and we wrote the middle bit together as the sun was commin' up on my ole Encino home..'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0RvqI1rcbE

Happy times..

Here is the link to the transcript of David Cassidy's liner note, made for us by Doreen Walker.

https://www.davidcassidy.com/fansite/DiscographyPages/HomeIsWhereTheHeartIs_LinerNotes.html


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