Did you know that David Cassidy, the teen and pre-teen
idol who starred in the 1970s sitcom "The Partridge Family" and sold
millions of records as the musical group's lead singer, died at age 67?Did you know that Cassidy, he had been diagnosed
with dementia?Did you know that Cassidt who announced earlier this year that, was in a Fort Lauderdale, Florida, hospital suffering from organ failure?
Did you know that Jones played Shirley Partridge, a widow with five children with whom she forms a popular act that travels on a psychedelic bus?
Did you know that the seventies was an era for singing families — the Osmonds, the Jacksons. "The Partridge Family" never cracked the top 10 in TV ratings, but the recordings under their name, mostly featuring Cassidy, Jones and session players, produced real-life musical hits and made Cassidy a real-life musical superstar?
Did you know that The Partridges' best known song, "I Think I Love
You," spent three weeks on top of the Billboard chart at a time when
other hit singles included James Taylor's "Fire and Rain" and Smokey
Robinson and the Miracles' "The Tears of a Clown?"
Did you know that The Partridges Family also reached the top 10 with "I'll Meet You Halfway" and "Doesn't Somebody Want to be Wanted" and Cassidy had a solo hit with "Cherish?""
Did you know that in two years, David Cassidy has swept hurricane-like into the
pre-pubescent lives of millions of American girls," Rolling Stone
magazine noted in 1972. "Leaving: six and a half million long-playing
albums and singles; 44 television programs; David Cassidy lunch boxes;
David Cassidy bubble gum; David Cassidy coloring books and David Cassidy
pens; not to mention several millions of teen magazines, wall stickers,
love beads, posters and photo albums?"
Did you know that The Partridges Family also reached the top 10 with "I'll Meet You Halfway" and "Doesn't Somebody Want to be Wanted" and Cassidy had a solo hit with "Cherish?""
Did you know that in two years, David Cassidy has swept hurricane-like into the
pre-pubescent lives of millions of American girls," Rolling Stone
magazine noted in 1972. "Leaving: six and a half million long-playing
albums and singles; 44 television programs; David Cassidy lunch boxes;
David Cassidy bubble gum; David Cassidy coloring books and David Cassidy
pens; not to mention several millions of teen magazines, wall stickers,
love beads, posters and photo albums?"
Did you know that Cassidy's appeal faded after the show went off the air, although he
continued to tour, record and act over the next 40 years, his albums
including "Romance" and the awkwardly titled "Didn't You Used To Be?"
Did you know that Cassidy had a hit with "I Write the Songs" before Barry Manilow's chart-topping version and success overseas with "The Last Kiss," featuring backing vocals from Cassidy admirer George Michael?
Did you know that Cassidy made occasional stage and television appearances, including an Emmy-nominated performance on "Police Story?"
Meanwhile, "The Partridge Family" remained popular in re-runs and
Cassidy, who kept his dark bangs and boyish appearance well into middle
age, frequently turned up for reunions and spoke often about his early
success.
Did you know that Cassidy posed naked for Rolling Stone in 1972?
Did you know that Cassidy was married
and divorced three times, battled alcoholism, was arrested for drunk
driving and in 2015 filed for bankruptcy?
Did you know that Cassidy had two children, musician Beau Cassidy and actress Katie Cassidy, with whom he acknowledged having a distant relationship?
Cassidy himself was estranged from his father. Born in New York City in 1950, he was the son of actors Jack Cassidy and Evelyn Ward and half brother of entertainer Shaun Cassidy. David Cassidy's parents split up when he was 5 and he would long express regret about Jack Cassidy, who soon married Shirley Jones, being mostly absent from his life. David Cassidy stayed with his mother and by the early 1960s had moved to Los Angeles.
Did you know that Cassidy was kicked out of high school for truancy?
Did you know that Cassidy had a hit with "I Write the Songs" before Barry Manilow's chart-topping version and success overseas with "The Last Kiss," featuring backing vocals from Cassidy admirer George Michael?
Did you know that Cassidy made occasional stage and television appearances, including an Emmy-nominated performance on "Police Story?"
Meanwhile, "The Partridge Family" remained popular in re-runs and
Cassidy, who kept his dark bangs and boyish appearance well into middle
age, frequently turned up for reunions and spoke often about his early
success.Did you know that Cassidy posed naked for Rolling Stone in 1972?
Did you know that Cassidy was married
and divorced three times, battled alcoholism, was arrested for drunk
driving and in 2015 filed for bankruptcy?Did you know that Cassidy had two children, musician Beau Cassidy and actress Katie Cassidy, with whom he acknowledged having a distant relationship?
Cassidy himself was estranged from his father. Born in New York City in 1950, he was the son of actors Jack Cassidy and Evelyn Ward and half brother of entertainer Shaun Cassidy. David Cassidy's parents split up when he was 5 and he would long express regret about Jack Cassidy, who soon married Shirley Jones, being mostly absent from his life. David Cassidy stayed with his mother and by the early 1960s had moved to Los Angeles.
Did you know that Cassidy was kicked out of high school for truancy?
Did you know that Cassidy dreamed of becoming an
actor and had made appearances on "Bonanza," ''Ironside" and other
programs before producers at ABC television asked him to audition for
"The Partridge Family," unaware that he could sing and intending at
first to have him mime songs to someone else's voice?
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