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Showing posts with label David Cassidy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label David Cassidy. Show all posts
Wednesday, April 7, 2021
Sunday, February 7, 2021
In Memory of David Cassidy
An hour in the company of David Hamilton, in conversation with 70s teen icon, David Cassidy. Successful pop star and member of "The Partridge Family" on TV. Recorded in London in the early 2000s.
In Memory David Cassidy In the 1970s
David Cassidy was born in 1950 and died in November 2017 after multiple organ failures and the onset of dementia. David was one of the biggest global stars in the 1970s after
The TV show not only made him a teen heartthrob as a good looking actor, but the show allowed him to prove his singing credentials too.
The show proved popular, but the
Once "I Think I Love You" became a hit, Cassidy began work on solo albums, as well. Within the first year, he had produced his own single, "Cherish" (from the album of the same title), which reached number nine in the United States, number two in the United Kingdom, and number one in Australia and New Zealand. He began tours that featured Partridge tunes and his own hits. Though he wanted to become a respected rock musician along the lines of Mick Jagger, his channel to stardom launched him into the ranks of teen idol , a brand he loathed until much later in life, when he managed to come to terms with his bubblegum pop beginnings.
Ten albums by The Partridge Family and five solo albums were produced during the series, with most selling more than a million copies each. Internationally, Cassidy's solo career eclipsed the already phenomenal success of The Partridge Family. He became an instant drawcard with sellout concert successes in major arenas around the world. These concerts produced mass hysteria, resulting in the media coining the term "Cassidymania".
By way of example, he played to two sellout crowds of 56,000 each at the Houston Astrodome in Texas over one weekend in 1972. His concert in New York's Madison Square Garden sold out in one day and resulted in riots after the show.] His concert tours of the United Kingdom included sellout concerts at Wembley Stadium in 1973 In Australia in 1974, the mass hysteria was such that calls were made to have him deported from the country, especially after the madness at his 33,000-person audience concert at Melbourne Cricket Ground.
By way of example, he played to two sellout crowds of 56,000 each at the Houston Astrodome in Texas over one weekend in 1972. His concert in New York's Madison Square Garden sold out in one day and resulted in riots after the show.] His concert tours of the United Kingdom included sellout concerts at Wembley Stadium in 1973 In Australia in 1974, the mass hysteria was such that calls were made to have him deported from the country, especially after the madness at his 33,000-person audience concert at Melbourne Cricket Ground.
David was too big to stay in the show and became a huge solo star, making him the slightly naughty teen heartthrob, compared to the Donny Osmond and Michael Jackson teen stars at the same time.
1972 saw David had his first solo UK hit with Could It Be Forever getting to the Number 2 position. The next single also a hit in 1972 went to the top position in the UK charts. How Can I Be Sure written by Felix Cavaliere and Eddie Brigati, and originally recorded by The Young Rascals on their 1967 album Groovin'.
David was now a superstar at the very highest level. However, the next single only reached No.11and was called Rock Me Baby.
In 1973 he would have his best year with hit singles starting with a No.3 hit I Am A Clown with the B side called Some Kind Of A Summer.
The big No.1 was Daydreamer. Written by Terry Dempsey and produced by Rick Jarrard, "Daydreamer" was Cassidy's second and final No.1 single in the UK Singles Chart, spending three weeks at the top of the chart in October and November 1973. The song was a double-A side with a cover version of Harry Nilsson's "The Puppy Song" on the B-side. The single was the 10th best selling single in the UK in 1973.
The song also appears on David Cassidy's 1973 UK No.1 album Dreams Are Nuthin' More Than Wishes.
David Cassidy on NATIONWIDE IN 1972,
David Cassidy it thisweek documentary clip
David Cassidy on NATIONWIDE IN 1972,
David Cassidy it this
David on BLUE PETER in 1972
More hits followed in 1974 with the No. 9 hit If I Didn't Care and the Beatles cover of Please Please Me.
1975 gave David a No.11 hit with a cover of the Barry Manilow hit song I Write The Songs , which was written by Bruce Johnston who was a former member of The Beach Boys. His last big chart hit in the 1970s was Darlin.
David Cassidy annual 1974
David Cassidy annual 1974
Friday, January 8, 2021
Top Ten Selling Singles of 1973
Here are the top ten best selling singles in the UK
Top Hits of 1973
1 Dawn Tie A Yellow Ribbon Article about Dawn
The first hit in the 1970s was called Candida which Tony wanted to sing as a solo, but contractual problems prevented this so it was performed under the group Dawn and was written by Toni Wine and Irvine Levine
2 Simon Park Orchestra Eye Level
3 Peters & Lee Welcome Home Article about Peters and Lee
4 The Sweet Blockbuster Article about Sweet
5 Slade Cum On Feel The Noize
6 Gary Glitter I Love You Love Me Love Article about Gary Glitter
7 Wizzard See My Baby Jive Article about Wizzard
8 Gary Glitter I'm The Leader Of The Gang Article about Gary Glitter
9 Donny Osmond The Twelfth of Never Article about Donny Osmond
10 David Cassidy Daydreamer / Puppy Song
Saturday, July 18, 2020
UK Top 50 Singles Chart - 1 November 1975
1 November 1975 – Top 50 UK Singles
Topping the Chart is Art Garfunkel
New entries from Eagles, 14-18, Jigsaw, Van McCoy, Maxine Nightingale, John Lennon and Billy Connolly,
Climbers include Austin Robins, David Cassidy, Jim Capaldi, Hello, Justin Hayward & John Lodge, George McCrae and Roxy Music
Plus other well-known and less known classics
More from 1975
More from 1975
Saturday, April 25, 2020
GOLDEN HOUR : APRIL 1973
This non-stop playlist features 19 songs that peaked in the UK singles chart during April 1973. You'll hear tracks by Tony Orlando & Dawn, David Cassidy, Gilbert O'Sullivan, Don McLean, Mud, Roxy Music, Wings, The O'Jays, Wings, Argent.
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Tuesday, April 14, 2020
In the 1970s David Cassidy
In the sitcom he was in a singing group alongside Shirley Jones (his real life stepmother) and Susan Dey. I don’t remember much of the
As to be
With a subsequent string of hit singles (“How Can I Be Sure”, “Daydreamer” for example) and sold-out tours (complete with requisite screaming fans and tabloid headlines) it seemed nothing could go wrong in his career. Obviously such a statement always precedes something negative and here it was the fans need to be near David.
At a concert in May 1974 at White City a rush to the stage caused a number of fans to be hospitalised and killed one 14 year old. Whilst there were a couple of hits after this David’s time on the teen idol bandwagon had come to an end.
David Cassidy had never intended to be ‘just’ a teen idol and fell back on his acting abilities when the pop charts no longer beckoned, receiving an Emmy nomination in 1978 and appearing on Broadway in the early ‘80s. Finally in 1985 he returned to the charts for the last time with “The Last Kiss”.
In 1972 David had a top twenty hit with Rock Me and in 1973 he had a No.3 double A side with I am a Clown and Some Kind of Summer.
In 1972 David had a top twenty hit with Rock Me and in 1973 he had a No.3 double A side with I am a Clown and Some Kind of Summer.
1974 gave us two top ten hits with If I Didnt Care and the Beatles cover of Please Please Me.
David died in 2017 aged 67.
Here is David in 1972 being interviewed on the BBC show Nationwide.
Sunday, March 15, 2020
Top Five from Paul Gambachinni Radio 2 2018 the charts of November 1973
Top Five from Paul Gambaccini Radio 2 2018 the charts of November 1973 on PICK OF THE POPS
Tracks include
Sweet Caroline by Status Quo https://hits-of-the-70s.blogspot.com/2014/11/in-1970s-status-quo.html
Sweet Caroline by Status Quo https://hits-of-the-70s.blogspot.com/2014/11/in-1970s-status-quo.html
Let me in by Osmonds
see
https://hits-of-the-70s.blogspot.com/2014/01/in-1970s-osmonds.html
More from the Osmonds https://www.mixcloud.com/john-grant4/osmonds-in-conversation-with-steve-wright/
see
https://hits-of-the-70s.blogspot.com/2014/01/in-1970s-osmonds.html
More from the Osmonds https://www.mixcloud.com/john-grant4/osmonds-in-conversation-with-steve-wright/
Sorrow by David Bowie see https://hits-of-the-70s.blogspot.com/2016/01/in-memory-david-bowie.html
Eye Level by The Simon Park Orchestra
The TV theme to VAN DER VALK on ITV. See https://hits-of-the-70s.blogspot.com/2013/08/top-ten-selling-singles-of-1973.html
The TV theme to VAN DER VALK on ITV. See https://hits-of-the-70s.blogspot.com/2013/08/top-ten-selling-singles-of-1973.html
Daydreamer by David Cassidy see https://hits-of-the-70s.blogspot.com/2017/11/in-memory-david-cassidy-in-1970s.html
More 1970s at https://www.facebook.com/InThe1970s/
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