"I Get Very Emotional When I Come Back to New York'

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.. 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 1985, and I know they didn't meet, but she said that David asked Alan for her phone number, and he personally thanked her for her contribution. He was very nice and charming. It was so sweet of him. She didn't expect it.

Anyway I'm a great fan of this wonderful woman and singer. So elegant and sophisticated pop music. And Basia herself. This is truly an amazing song and I hope you'll like it. I love it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdK607o5B0Y

Let's return to David Cassidy and New York. In October 2013 he played concert at B.B. King Blues Club, he shared a lot of memories with fans, and fans actually brought a lot of his old pics, among them the one with 2 or 3 year -old David with his parents. He looked at it for a moment and said,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTDVPXOL2LI 

We have quite a lot of interviews with DC about his New York's experiences. And I'd love to walk in his footsteps while in New York in July.  Today let's talk a little bit about baseball.

Baseball, I know absolutely nothing about it, or better say whatever I know I've learnt from David Cassidy (and my fellow fan and dear friend Mary). A few years ago I even didn't know how the logo of the New York Yankees looked like, DC loved wearing its cap, he was a huge fan. 

Bill Ervolino wrote an article about DC for The Record mag in 2013, this is a fragment,"Even then (when he was a boy living in West Orange) he loved music. But he really, really loved baseball. (...) Cassidy says the pictures hanging on his walls were of Yankee slugger, Mickey Mantle. 'He was the hero to every boy- and plenty of girls - at that time especially if you lived in the New York area,' Cassidy says, 'I was an enormous Yankee fan, I think I was 7 or 8 the first time my grandfather took me to Yankee Stadum. We took the bus to Port Authority, than the train. I can still remember the thrill of walking through that tunnel to our seats and seeing the stadium right in front of me, for the first time. It was breathtaking."

The current Yankee Stadium is not the one David visted with his granddad in the late 50s. The original operated from 1923 to 2008.

It was not the Yankee Stadium, but Wrigley Field in Chicago, nevertheless singing this unofficial anthem of North America baseball  must have been very emotional for David.

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

We have wonderful pics from that event on the website.

https://www.davidcassidy.com/fansite/TvFilmPages/ChicagoCubsGame.html

The pic, The David Cassidy Official Website


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