'David Is Across The Board'

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Gerry Beckley, 'I really enjoyed writing with David (..) David is across the board, he's capable of doing lyrics and music. He's a great piano player, a good guitar player, a nice lyricist and he's got a great voice.' (David Cassidy, 'Could It Be Forever?', 2007, 326s.)

Written by David Cassidy and Gerry Beckley 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8CgweFVwio&list=RDb8CgweFVwio&start_radio=1

We are so grateful for those words. It's not so often when a fellow musician, artist, a former friend, says something about how good a songwriter David was. How multitalented. Kim Carnes remembers David as a great friend, wonderful and funny guy, who loved to laugh and liked spending time at Kim and Dave Ellingson's house. I wish she'd said instead how underrated singer and songwriter he was. I once read an article where Kim was called a great songwriter, but not a word that her hit 'Betty Davis Eyes' actually was a cover.  Don't get me wrong, I have nothing against Kim and I love her version of the song, but it hurts how he is underrated, forgotten even, as a musician and songwriter. 

Written by David Cassidy and Kim Carnes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wy6cLVQUTUU&list=RDWy6cLVQUTUU&start_radio=1

And recently I've thought about it again, and how life is unfair ( I know it is of course, but...) when I read The Songwriters Hall Of Fame 2027 Nominees. So we have Debbie Harry and Chris Stein (Blondie), Boy George, Pink, Shakira, Lady Gaga, Frank Beard (ZZTop), some others and..Gerry Beckley and Dewey Bunnell. 

Of course they are so far only nominees, and we'll see who will be inducted. I wish Dewey and Gerry all the recognition they deserve, pity Dan Peek has been omitted. He plays and sings on first the most important (and the best) America's albums, and on each of them there are songs written by him. None of them were the hits like the ones written by Dewey Bunnell and Gerry Beckley, but there is something wrong in my opinion that he was omitted and forgotten. 

We'll never see David on such a list..

One more song by David Cassidy and Gerry Beckley. One of my fav.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lasrK2vtqc8&list=RDlasrK2vtqc8&start_radio=1

The pic by Henry Diltz. David Cassidy, Dewey Bunnell and Gerry Beckley







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