David Cassidy Being Together

Me at least. I'm writing my last entry this year, btw it's amazing that I've been writing my blog for more than 2 years, nearly 170 000 views, life is really unpredictable. But let's start with a song, one of my fav, and a great video too https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXTNpuu74IA Oh yes, not literally, but of course he is the one we can always run to. 2022 was the year which started very, very badly and still the war is behind our (Polish) east border. But after all the year wasn't so bad, just an usual mix of good and worse days. Some were very difficult, it's just life. But it was a special year because we've lost so many people who have been always present in our lives. Many of us, the DC fans, have lost the loved ones, and it's a kind of loss which changes everything, leaves a scar which will never heal. Hope our support on the social media has helped just a little bit. But I'm thinking also about other people we've lost this year, stranger...

I've wanted to write about this song many, many times. Even once or twice started, wrote something and resigned. But after yesterday's entry about 'Spooky' I listened a little bit to 'A Touch Of Blue' album. Btw what a great title and so right. Because David Cassidy recorded this album with joy and sadness.  DC : 'I recorded the Touch of Blue album in Hollywood, It is one of my two or three favourite recordings of mine because it was recorded live and in the studio at Capitol. It was as organic as I could possibly make it - live vocals and singing with a live band. (..) I wanted to record the way Sinatra did and at the same studio where all those fabulous Big Band recordings were done for so many years. Nat King Cole. Sinatra. Bobby Darin.' (David Cassidy : Could It Be Forever ?, 2007) So it was a joy to work where those greatest had worked, but it was also returning to his teenage years, and to the 70s. 'New York City Life', his own big-band num...

  I've never heard about the band called The Classics IV, and their hit, 'Spooky', recorded in summer of 1967. A popular Halloween hit. I've learned about them, because David Cassidy recorded his own cover of 'Spooky' for his album, 'A Touch of Blue'. The group was a cover band from Florida, and it seems that from the beginning they had problems how to call themselves. At first it was 'The Classics', because the drummer had a Classic drum set. When they were to record their first album they learned there had already been another recording act called 'The Classics', so they added 'IV' to the name, because at the time there were four members.. There are 4 people who had credits to 'Spooky' (Mike Shapiro, Harry Middlebrooks Jr, James Cobb and Buddy Blue), because 'Spooky' was originally an instrumental song, the lyrics were written later by one of The Classics IV's member, and their producer. Sang by the drummer.....

In March 1976, Giovanni Dadomo interviewed David Cassidy in London. For 'Sound Magazine'. They met in the morning on the same day when DC appeared on The Russell Harty Show. And maybe let's start with the song David performed at the end of that show..I know I've written about 'Then I'll Be Someone' so many times, but I love that song and to think that it was just a coincidence that we have that live recording. And it makes me think about other songs, those we don't even know about.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZFHa3QOvkI So in the morning (the article appeared on April 3, 1976) Giovanni Dadomo met with DC at his hotel, and they talked also about David's plans for the future. What about a movie? "Well, I've read fine screenplay, but I'm not really sure I'm going to be doing it.' He has, he says, received a whole bundle of screenplays - everything from the obvious vehicles for his old blue-eyed, white-toothed Partridge Family ...

I want to write today about those movie roles DC was offered in the 70s. Or truly speaking about one role. We don't know how it really was, maybe it was just a gossip, but there is one article on the website with info, that in 1973 DC turned down the role in a film called '40 Carats'.  It happened that I saw that film in the early 80s on our Polish tv, and I remember that I liked it, but thought there was no chemistry between those two lovers, and first of all that it was absolutely impossible that 22-year-old man could have been in love with a 40-year-old woman. At the time I was under 20 myself so you can understand it.  In '40 Carats', Liv Ullmann plays a successful businesswoman, who on holiday in Greece meets a handsome young man, who helps her when her car breaks down. They goes for a drink and later..get to know each other better. Even that the young man is very nice (in that role 22 year old Edward Albert),  the woman thinks it's just a holiday fling, no...

It's Christmas and I'm writing a new entry. Crazy. Not exactly, because in Poland the most important is Christmas Eve, and yesterday my house was full of laughter, young and old members of my family so happy to spend that time together. I'm so blessed, I know. But I've also returned with a cold from my holiday. When I was in Antalya to see The Aquarium (btw it was awful, a big prison especially for those poor sharks), anyway, that day was sunny but it was also a very cold wind.  So today I'm left alone in my room and I'm watching tv and writing about David. We still miss him. We, his fans. We'd have loved to know he was happy and healthy, spending Christmas with his family... Wish you were here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00eV8n-LtQY I'm doing something for the website and reading old newspapers' articles. There are some great ones from 1971,  thoughtful and written with a sympathy for a young teen idol. Btw it's so important  to have all ar...

  I've had at last some time to listen to those DC's vocals (without instruments) recently published on YT. And I still don't know what to think about them. Of course I don't have to have an opinion on everything regarding DC, but Jane has posted several links on the website FB page, and it looks like a lot of fans enjoyed those tapes. So I gave them a try, and still don't know. This is not a first experiment with TPF'songs and I'm a great fan of John Gomolka's tapes, he altered the original tracks to better reflect David's true voice. That recording for example, is just unbelievable. Everytime I listen to it have goosebumps. Like being with him in the studio. Such a fabulous, irresistible voice.. http://www.davidcassidy.com/fansite/DiscographyPages/I'm%20Here%20You're%20Here_JohnGomolkaVersion.mp3 The music and background singers, they do not interfere with admiring the DC's vocals. Because his voice was the most important instrument in ...