All I Wanna Do is Touch You / Irwin Levine and L. Russell Brown
I haven't written for a few days (again!), I was very busy, but it doesn't mean I've forgotten about David. I listen to his music in my car, recently the songs from 'Cherish'. 'All I Wanna Do is Touch You' is the song B from David's single released in September 1971. Side A, 'Cherish', the only Top 10 David Cassidy's single in the US. No 9 on November 13, it stayed on the chart for 11 weeks.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pG17uX7M8U
I've listened to 'Cherish' album..many times and it never gets boring. It peaked at No 15 on Billboard, and I wonder what would have happened if this album hadn't been recorded by the reigning teen idol. DC himself had mixed feelings about it at first. "I wanted to record some material that was more me, although I knew that I had to stay within the parameters of TPF and that Wes Farrell was ultimately going to be in control of the material." (David Cassidy, Could It Be Forever?. 2007. p.216).
He was so proud that the songs he written himself were recorded for the album, and he loved most of the tracks. But even with the songs 21 year-old David Cassidy wasn't so happy about, he could do something really special.
This video (I have watched it today for the first time) is called Lyric video, a tribute for David's 75th birthday.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGM8s4_s1wI
I wanted to write new entries several times in the last week, but never had time. About 'The Last Session' which was first aired on June 11, 2018, and whatever fans think about it for me this doc is very important, and the only one we have about David Cassidy made after he passed away.
And about DC's first autobiography, in June 1994 he signed his book and met with fans in many stores in the US.
And Brian Wilson of course. His death was a shock, even that no one could have expected in the 70s that he would be the last of the Wilson brothers to die. A lot of famous people remembered Brian Wilson, we all feel something important and beautiful has ended. There is also this strong connection, David Cassidy and Beach Boys.
But I've had another shock when I learned that my kids (my daughters and their husbands ; the youngest 32 years old and the oldest 38) that they have never heard about Brian Wilson and Beach Boys. Never heard about 'Surfin' USA' or 'Good Vibrations'. How it's possible?? We talked about it and my son-in-law put it the best. "In the 70s you had only music, books and movies. Everybody listened to the same music, read the same books, watched the same films. Now the world has changed, we have so many possibilities, so many channels of info and entertainment, we live in different worlds." It's true. And I added that for my generation music was so important, much more than for the present one. I'm sorry for them. They have never heard 'God Only Knows'.
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