David Cassidy In 'The History Of Rock'n'Roll On Television'

The full title of this book is 'Station To Station. The History Of Rock & Roll On Television', written by Marc Weingarten,  (a free lance journalist and filmaker from LA), published in 2000. And Jane has posted  recently some books (fragments regarding DC), and all of them are very interesting to read and very valuable additions to The Official Website of David Cassidy.

I'd love to read entire Marc Weigarten's book, he really knows what he is writing about, his knowledge of the music industry,  the history of television and pop culture is incredible. He must have done a lot of research, he provides a lot of facts and rather no errors as is often the case in such publications. It's wonderfully written, the author has strong views on TV shows and people who created them,  and he is not afraid to share his opinions with readers. Just two fragments, "Farrell was a street-smart hustle with an unerring capacity to gauge pop market trends and capitalize on them "Wes was a high school dropout, but he dressed like a million bucks," recalls Cassidy, "He was super-slick". 

And one more David's opinion on Farrell found in this book, "Wes really taught me the economical approach to songwriting," says Cassidy. "His only downfall was that he wasn't willing to go further with the songs. He wouldn't develop the lyrics enough, or the track. He would say, 'OK, that's good enough,' when sometimes it wasn't." For someone like David, always a perfectionist, that must have been difficult.

https://www.davidcassidy.com/fansite/InPrintPages/Book_StationToStation.pdf

Another very interesting addition to the Website is Bobby Sherman's book. As we all know, he died on June 24, we remembered him and I watched his Partridge Family's episode again, so it was very interesting and moving to read what Bobby thought about David, and their working together in 1971.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcvR80bRJhE

Bobby Sherman's book was published in 1996. Bobby wrote that he'd met David while working on the last episodes of 'Here Come the Brides', because the sound stage was just next to the stage where the filming of the first episodes of The Partridge Family had just started. Somehow it's difficult to believe in it, knowing how important Sal Mineo was for both of them in the 60s. Of course in 1965 David was just a young teen, and Bobby at 22 was already a popular singer and actor, but they must have met. Of course it's not so important.

They didn't became frends on the set. "Working with David was just the same as working on any show. It was work. We were polite to each other, we knew our lines, we did our jobs and left."

We can read that David was not very happy about the whole situation, and it looks that no one had told him in advance about working with a former teen idol. This Partridge Family's episode was meant as a pilot for the new TV show with Bobby and Wes Stern. "The first day on the set, I heard David on the phone to his agent complaining about it. It was an uncomfortable stuation."

https://www.davidcassidy.com/fansite/InPrintPages/Book_BobbySherman.pdf