A Partridge Has Fallen

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RichardX

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I went to one of his book signings about 15 years or more ago in DC. I watched the show as a kid and enjoyed it. So I show up early and I'm about the only non-female in line. Just about everyone else is a 30-ish female. Being in DC they are mostly professional looking. When Cassidy shows up they practically rush the desk where he is signing books and knock it over like a bunch of teenagers. When I get up to him he gives me this look like can you believe this is still going on?
 

kingricefan

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I went to one of his book signings about 15 years or more ago in DC. I watched the show as a kid and enjoyed it. So I show up early and I'm about the only non-female in line. Just about everyone else is a 30-ish female. Being in DC they are mostly professional looking. When Cassidy shows up they practically rush the desk where he is signing books and knock it over like a bunch of teenagers. When I get up to him he gives me this look like can you believe this is still going on?
He stopped touring and singing back in the 70's when a teenage girl died at one of his concerts. If I remember correctly she was pushed up against some type of blockade and couldn't breath. Something along those lines. That's when the whole 'fame' thing started to mess with his head and he turned his back on LaLaLand for quite a few years.
 

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danie

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They say the best harmonizers are family members. And yes, we all know beautiful harmonizers who aren't related, I'm just saying what I've heard.

I loved them too, girl. :down:
Their voices blended together so well, didn’t they? I can just imagine them growing up together, singing around the piano, learning exactly which note the other would sing until it became like one voice.
 

Neesy

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Beautiful harmonies. How I loved both these guys when I was growing up.
David looks more like Jack, and his brother Shaun looks like Shirley Jones :grinning:
They say the best harmonizers are family members. And yes, we all know beautiful harmonizers who aren't related, I'm just saying what I've heard.

I loved them too, girl. :down:

I agree - look at the Bee Gee brothers
 

RichardX

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There is an A&E documentary on Cassidy's final days - David Cassidy The Last Session. Sobering stuff to see a guy who had so much teen fame, good looks, and fortune end up dying in his 60s while looking a hundred years old. He claimed to have dementia but it seemed more like the long term affects of alcoholism. Age and addiction are not kind. I had forgotten the extent of his fame in the 1970s doing world-wide concert tour appearances. He had an Elvis-like fan base there for a while. Then became something of a has been in the time honored Hollywood tradition. Some interesting tidbits about his relationship with his father Jack Cassidy. Interesting and sad life. Depressing for those of us old enough to remember him at the height of his fame.
 

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There is an A&E documentary on Cassidy's final days - David Cassidy The Last Session. Sobering stuff to see a guy who had so much teen fame, good looks, and fortune end up dying in his 60s while looking a hundred years old. He claimed to have dementia but it seemed more like the long term affects of alcoholism. Age and addiction are not kind. I had forgotten the extent of his fame in the 1970s doing world-wide concert tour appearances. He had an Elvis-like fan base there for a while. Then became something of a has been in the time honored Hollywood tradition. Some interesting tidbits about his relationship with his father Jack Cassidy. Interesting and sad life. Depressing for those of us old enough to remember him at the height of his fame.
Would love to watch this.
 

GNTLGNT

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There is an A&E documentary on Cassidy's final days - David Cassidy The Last Session. Sobering stuff to see a guy who had so much teen fame, good looks, and fortune end up dying in his 60s while looking a hundred years old. He claimed to have dementia but it seemed more like the long term affects of alcoholism. Age and addiction are not kind. I had forgotten the extent of his fame in the 1970s doing world-wide concert tour appearances. He had an Elvis-like fan base there for a while. Then became something of a has been in the time honored Hollywood tradition. Some interesting tidbits about his relationship with his father Jack Cassidy. Interesting and sad life. Depressing for those of us old enough to remember him at the height of his fame.
...alcohol fueled the dementia.....
 
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