David Cassidy Being Together

A lot of new articles, notes and posters from the early 70s have been published recently on the Official Website of David Cassidy. And maybe for some fans they are not interesting, but I read everything.  The sheer number of them show how David was famous in the UK and Europe 50 years ago..  I'm especially happy for Spanish mags covers, because so far we haven't had much info about DC in Spain, and I'm sure it's just the beginning. My FB friend, Encarni, has told me that David was often written about in Spanish press. On such mags as 'Hola', 'Lecturas', 'Semana' and 'Diez Minutos'.  Actually Encarni and another FB friend Araceli, didn't value 'Pronto' (the mag we have on the website), because one 'Pronto's  journalist didn't like David.  Except Pronto covers with DC, we have one article published on Diez Minutos, in May 1978. David visited his wife, Kay Lenz, when she was working on the set of the film called '...

On this day, January 29, in 1971, The Partridge Family Season 1 Episode 18,  'Soul Club' was first aired.  Probably the most famous of all 96 episodes. I know at least 2 serious lists of 100 Greatest TV Episodes Of All Time, with 'Soul Club'  included. On one of them even at #78.  Actually this is not mine favourite episode, but of course there are reasons why this one is so remembered. The script and the guest stars.  Richard Pryor was still unknown in 1971,  (the movie 'Lady Sings the Blues' was released in 1972), and the same can be said about Louis Gossett Jr, who 11 years later would get an Academy Award and a Golden Globe. 'Soul Club' was actually treated as a pilot for a proposed TV series with Pryor and Gossett as Simon brothers.  And 'Bandala'. Written by Wes Farrell and Eddie Singelton (1936-2008). Singelton started his career very early, in the 50s, a singer, songwriter and soul music producer. The lyrics of 'Bandala'...let...

We have some anniversaries in January. Partridge Family's single, 'It's One Of Those Nights' peaked at #20 on Billboard Hot 100 on January 22, 1972.  One of the best songs from the group catalog. Tony Romeo's masterpiece and unforgettable David Cassidy's vocal achievement. Only number 20, and just a few months before, in June 1971, 'I'll Meet You Halfway' was in Top 10.  Since September 1970 Bell Records released 5 Partridge Family albums, and  one Top 10 David's single, 'Cherish'.  Even for the most faithful fans buying every album or a single was a challenge, especially that most of fans were teens. Some people from the industry, already in January 1972 thought that David was on his way out, that he already passed his peak as a teen idol. Besides he had a new, younger rival, in 1972 Donny Osmond became a new sensation. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ca5PvKMQek This is such a wonderful song, a real pop early 70s classic, and it's a...

A song first. I have some CD's in my car with David's solo and Partridge Family's music ; I love all of them, but there is always that extra thrill when the chosen at random CD turns out to be 'Cherish'. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zuwVS2DqhzE Amazng. He didn't like the famous 'but' in 1973. Probably it was Wes Farrell's invention, added to further increase sales. I have a lot of cuttngs from Mirabelle. Got from my English friend who collected them in the early 70s. I brought them home a few years ago, from England, and truly speaking didn't read them. After all 1. they were written for teens, 2. David probably had nothing to do with them. I think his PR person gave some info, or maybe even DC himself during a phone call, but no way he did write them himself. So there was a column in Mirabelle called 'Ask David Anythng'. I know nothing about the dates, because my friend didn't think about the future readers, and her cuttings are w...

 ...and I'm going to release a new single, The Last Kiss. I wonder if my old fans will still remember me?', said DC in an interview called 'I'm David Cassidy...remember?', published on The Standard, on  January 4th, 1985. 'Those showbusiness people', one would like to say. Showing up and keeping up appearances. Suddenly after some years, in November 1984,  British press remembered David. But not because of his music. but because of his very trendy, posh, famous and younger friends. Most of them were his fans in the early 70s. Boy George put it the best. He said after David died in 2017. 'David Cassidy was the biggest heartthrob of the 70s. Every boy wanted to look like him. His voice was like silk.' So in November 1984 it was the news everywhere, and a big surprise for many, that at the premiere of a new 'Wham!' album, at the most popular London's club, Xenon, at a $12.500 very lavish party, appeared someone unexpected. We can read (also ...

A song written by a teenager, and recorded twice by David Cassidy in the early 70s.  Joerey Ortiz was a member of a very big family of Mexican and Native American origin, in entertainment for generations, and in the early 70s some of the boys from the family (also Joerey) started playing in a band called 'Silverbird'. In 1971 they released an album which probably was the first album by a Native American band to be released on a major label (Capitol).  Wes Farrell started working seriously with young Joerey, they recorded some demos, but nothing came out of this. But he wrote a really interesting song. And this song started playing in my head two days ago, when I read about David Cassidy listed for Camden Music Walk of Fame. Let's listen to it and first of all watch this outstanding tribute video made by Sharon D'Angulot. David was sooo sexy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HsEnaz_z41A I think no one expected it. Me at least. I must confess that I lost faith that we woul...

This story is not over yet, and even that people of Los Angeles know what natural disasters can be, they are devasted. Like millions all over the world watching on TV. The sheer scale of the fires and destruction are shocking. David Cassidy and Los Angeles. He went to school here, lived and worked. Recorded music, played concerts. Performed in TV shows, guest starred on many TV programs. He knew everybody, everybody knew him. He was at the top and at the very bottom while living here.  Los Angeles in the 60s was the best place to live for someone like David Cassidy. He loved music and freedom, he was always ready for a new experience and ready to try everything. I'm not going to write a serious entry on DC in LA, it's a fascinating topic of course, but I don't know anything really about LA, I spent there just 2 days in 2019, that's nothing. I just want to write about 2 songs connected with Los Angeles and David Cassidy. 1. For What Is Worth. Written by Stephen Stills, o...

It's such a gem of a song, short, but so wonderfully played. Michael H. McDonald (electric piano), Michael Omartian (grand piano), Richard Bennett and Dave Ellingson (guitars), Emory Gordy Jr (bass guitar), Ron Tutt (drums), and also Milt Holland and Victor Feldman. Great, stellar musicians and 23 year-old amazing artist, because David Cassidy was not only a wonderful singer. He was a great interpreter, and what's more a very smart and sophisticated one.  David's 'Some  Old Woman', it's difficult even to call it a cover of Shel Silverstein and Bob Gibson's song, because it's so different than the original. In 1973 it was a very unexpected choice of a song for someone who said in many interviews that he wanted to play rock or blues. David Cassidy didn't fit into any one category, he was in a class of his own.  I think it was Henry Diltz who introduced DC to Bob Gibson and folk music, after all Henry Diltz before became a photographer was a folk musici...

Yes, it was exactly like this with me yesterday, like with a fan in 'Betty And the Werevolves' song about David Cassidy.   While watching (that was a pure accident) an old DC's interview, I realized at one moment that I was smiling when he was smiling at me, and it was rather weird, because I knew pretty well that this interview was recorded more than 34 years ago. And I  remembered what Shaun Cassidy said of his brother, 'He also has our father's great humour and great charm and great charisma when he wants to.' (David Cassidy : Could It Be Forever?' , 2007, p.57. Exactly.  Let's first watch (no, not the interview, it will be later), but DC working his magic on one of his fans. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRXsJSEarFE It's just amazing, the one and only David Cassidy. Thank you so much Mat Gurman for sharing this precious, unique copy with us. Wonderful. Let's return to the interview. There are over 600 DC's TV guest appearances listed on...

.. said DC during the concert in New York in 2013.  Yes, I haven't forgotten about my entry 'DC in New York. Broadway. Part 1.', actually I'm working on a new page, called 'David Cassidy in New York'; it's not easy because I've never been there myself, only hope to go in summer, but I treat writing about DC in New York as a part of my preparation for that trip.  But let's start with something else, a song, not David's, but there are connections, and since I've decided to take part in July celebration in West Orange, I play this album very often. Our own Polish Basia (Trzetrzelewska) recorded this hit album in 1990. It's called 'London Warsaw New York'. Two David's favourite cites, and my home town.   In 1984 Basia had quite a success in the UK, with Matt Bianco, she lived in London at the time. Alan Tarney asked her to do backing vocals for the title song of DC's 'Romance' album. I read an interview with her, from ...

It's really impressive how many new articles are published every day on The David Cassidy Official Website.  Thank you Jane, thank you Lanie, Marjon, Carmen and other fans who keep sharing their precious mags with us. Taking scans, searching for new info. We are so grateful. And it's amazing how all the time new items appear. Each one update adds something to our knowledge of DC, his life and career. Thanks to them we can appreciate his legacy even more, we can also understand better the choices he made.  And of course that way we can learn a lot about the music industry and pop culture. Recently Jane has posted several notes, adverts and reviews, about DC's single (and video), 'Lyin' To Myself, published in 1990 on the magazine called 'Hitmakers'. Let's watch David's great video with 'Lyin' To Myself' once more. Btw. it was made in the terminal of New York's Grand Central Station. One more place in NY connected with David. https://ww...

I've had trouble today with the title. First I've wanted it to be, ' A band was a fake but David Cassidy was the real thing', or 'David was the engine that made this music work'. Both quotes are from the doc about The Partridge Family, from the series called 'Behind The Music'. It was aired for the first time exactly 25 years ago.  Maybe a song first, it was played (fragments) several times during the 44 minutes of  the documentary. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqBc549rcF4 I watched The Partridge Family Behind The Music a few years ago, when I didn't know much about the show, the people who created the music for it, and even about DC himself. I've watched it again today in the morning, and I'm still under the spell.  I've posted the link to it on our David Cassidy Great Britain Legacy Group, but I think it's not enough, and I want to write something more about this very interesting documentary.  1. First of all we can see some wond...