Now that my addiction to David Cassidy's voice is out in the open, I can admit that since my re-discovery journey began seven months ago, not a day has gone by that I have not listened to some of his music. David Cassidy is all that I listen to in the car - even for the shortest car ride, I'll go back in the house to retrieve one of his CDs if I've none with me rather than turn the radio on. Some fans have been fans for YEARS; surely, there must be days when they don't listen to his voice?!?!? This addiction is a first for me. Those of you similarly addicted, have you ever experienced this before with any other singer?
I guess everyone experiences music and voices differently but since I can literally ache for David Cassidy's voice, I am aghast at anyone indifferent to it. I'd love to see a CAT scan of my brain while listening to his voice: all the pleasure points would be lit up like a Christmas tree. There's a study for an aspiring scientist.
Here's "Fix of Your Love" from his 1975 release "The Higher They Climb, The Harder They Fall". Whoa, whoa, whoa, indeed.
Saturday, November 28, 2009
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Thank you DD for putting my own thoughts into some coherent sense and writing them down. I am with you totally. No, I have never experienced these feeling with any other voice.
I would like to add that David probably has one of the best voices ever recorded.
Unfortunately, the fact that it appeals to and affects women so greatly, has probably been responsible for him not receiving the recognition he so deserves.
This is why I'm so desperate for him to record again. With well chosen tracks and his singing style tweaked correctly, he could produce something to surprise everyone. I don't want his voice to remain under-rated.
xxx
By the way, love that track. This is my album of choice at the moment, so thank you very much. A very good example of his work. It could be released today I think, showcases his talent very well indeed.
This is a very good point, British Fan, about the "sexiness" quality of his voice driving women crazy and undermining the recognition of his talent in general. So not only did his looks undermine his talent, but his voice did too!!! Voice, looks, assets, it would seem that the guy was born to be the ultimate sex symbol.
I still experience that with The Beatles. I have to listen to them everyday and if I hear one of their songs in a store, I stop to listen. David was not my first "love", he was one of many that I was/am a fan of growing up, so though I am a big fan of his, I never felt it the way those who were 10 or 12 yrs old when the PF started. I had already gone through Beatles, Monkees, Stones, Woodstock, Hippiedom, etc. by the time David showed up. There was only one thing of David's that I would listen to and maybe sigh a little and that was certain songs from his stageshow songs, Close Every Door from Joseph which we all sneaked recording in the theatre at that time, In My Defense from TIME which we sneaked recording, and others. There were times in the stage shows where his voice would soar so strong on its own, not electronic help or re-takes. Those audio cassettes I would listen to more often than the lps. We would also put all the power stage show songs onto one cassette to listen to. But admittedly, I do not listen to David's lps every day or every other day. If I do play anything today often of his it will be the Enigma lp over the others.
But The Beatles together or solo I absolutely listen to at some point during every day. Perhaps if I were 10 in 1970 instead of in 1964, it would be different. Who knows. I love you David, just not every day. LOL He's a Beatles fan too so I think he would understand. I once told him that if he was standing in front of me and one of The B's was behind him, I'd plow him down to get to them. He laughed so I think he would understand. Maybe he was even amused I would pass him by!
Oh when he was in NY doing Rat Pack Is Back, I had to leave him something at the theater to do for my fan club, and in the note I told him I was on my way to Madison Square Garden to see Bon Jovi so I thought I might as well drop this off for him beforehand. LOL
Barbara
Barbara, I envy you for being so much more aware of those times!!!! They had to have been so energizing, so magical, so unsettling. I was wondering about your age and attraction to David because I thought he appealed to younger girls, but now you've explained it. I was never addicted to anyone until David this summer. So it's a very strange thing for me.
Barbara, is there any chance of getting copies of any of those stage recordings you got???? I would love to hear all of that!!!! :-)
Oh DD,I must admit that you wrote down my own thougts as well!
Let me shortly explain my own re-discovery journey a couple of month ago.
For any reason David Cassidy came on my mind.
I searched a little on the internet and found some pictures of the young DC and
thought......What a BEAUTIFUL man!!! (I´m shure I stared a good while;-))
Almost forgotten how goodlooking he was...........AND of course his wonderful,unique ever seeeexy voice!!
Directly I remebered, that I must have the vinyl "cherish" somwhere. YES....found it and that was it!! What a voice!!!
From then on that´s the music to my ears!
And it´s not boring at all, for me he has a lot of variety in his voice.LOVE it!
Count me in,because I'm also addicted to David Cassidy's voice... even more so since I rediscovered him in December 2006.(Has it been 3 years already?? LOL)I just can't stay away from that voice.LOL I have to listen to IT all the time.Day and night no matter where I am or what I'm doing...even in the car.LOL I have others singers and groups that I like to listen to,but David Cassidy's voice IS and ALWAYS will be my all-time favorite.Can't get enough of his voice.LOL
Wow, Barbara, thanks for sharing this. I must admit that I am surprised that the President of his fan club does not seem addicted to his voice. :) And you were older than his average fan back then. What drew you in? I mean, it's obvious (duh) but you must not have had a lot of friends who shared your interest? That didn't dissuade you? About The Beatles, is it their music that stirs you or their voices? I'm also curious to how DC relates to you seeing as you're closer in age to him than his average fan. Is it fair to say that you had a less "fanatical" attitude than most and that would have helped you in dealing with him for fan club stuff? If you want to share, obviously.
British fan, I'm with you on wanting his voice to get its due!! For a while, I thought I was delusional - where's all the acclaim for this man's voice?!? I'd love to read the reviews on his albums from back then. I've a feeling I'd be disappointed though.
Lucky B, your re-discovery sounds similar to mine. I didn't come across a TV biography on him or the PF; I literally woke up one morning with his name in mind. Perhaps they had mentioned him on the radio after my clock/radio alarm went off?
Clodyne, your addiction has INTENSIFIED in these 3 years?! Thank goodness it's not an illegal substance. ;-)
I thought David was very cute and good looking, and he was more around my age, so that attracted me to him. I have to admit I was a bit annoyed at all you "little kids" back then - LOL!!- running around after him, and I felt funny at concerts in '71 and '72 with much younger fans sitting near me. In the papers they showed the tweenies, and I thought, "Hey show that he also has 17/18 year old fans!
I have no idea how David views me.
I don't mince my words if I have an opinion of something he's done, good or bad. We have had arguments, but they always healed over times.
I will say that the very first time I met him I wasn't as "mature" as you would think, because as he was walking towards my friend and me, he laughed as I blurted out, "Holy S--T, There He Is!". LOL
That was me above. Keep forgetting to I.D. myself. The Beatles were just so beautiful to my 10 yr old self in '64. I never saw anything like them. My sister was a teen in the 50's so I had listened to her records with her since I was 4 and knew Ricky Nelson and Frankie Avalon, etc through her. But The Beatles were MY teen idols of my very own. Oh God my friends and I were mad for them, spending allowance on magazines and posters and once we put our coins together and called The Beatles manager's office one morning from a phone booth outside out grammar school before classes started. Too funny. We went to see their movies EVERY day after school for the two weeks each played at the local movie theater, we'd see it one time each weekday and then on Saturday we'd go at noon and stay to see it three or four times (hiding from the ushers they had at that time cos you're only supposed to see it once on the 50 cents it cost then.)
It is so hard to explain what they mean to me. Every song is like the soundtrack of my life, I can recall when I first heard each one, and what was going on in my life at that time. Anytime I felt happy, their music was there for me, anytime I felt blue their music was there for me, and they were like a part of my life as familiar as family. And my friends and I went with them through their solo careers. One of my friends even got to be close with John & Yoko (Yoko gave her one of J's shirts after he died), and actually met the scuzball that weekend who later shot him. We are still friends from so many years ago and follow Ringo and Paul just as if we were teens again. When Paul did a book signing in 2005, we got on line outside the store over 24 hours before, and when Paul did a free concert at a club, my friends and I arrived to line up at 6:30am the day before the concert to be assured of getting in. And we are in our 50's now sleeping on the sidewalk for Paul! Yes that's what I said. He is the only one of 4 people I would do that for. Sadly two of them are no longer here. Once when we met Ringo in the lobby of his hotel in the 80's, we got up when he came out of the elevator and the security guard was going to stop us but Ringo - to our surprise - said, "That's ok, they're veterans." They are so ingrained in our souls. I am just glad I have the same other friends who never got over it too!! They were the greatest thing to come along in my life.
David's voice I did swoon over on his early lps and like I said in performances in the 80's. But in a different way. The 80's traveling around to see him is one of the most enjoyable times of my life.
Barbara
JD
Oh funny, in 1992 October, David was appearing in Pennsylvania at a balloon festival (yeah, I know) where he would be meeting fans and signing autographs. I was set to go there just to hang out and see him there. BUT then we got word that George Harrison was at a certain hotel in NY and was going to check out the next day (same day as DC in PA). Well, sorry David, but my friends and I (one pal flew in from Ohio to try & see George), we went to the hotel but didn't see George that day, so we took a cheap hotel room and then next day at 6:30 we were in front of the hotel. We stood there for hours - even had coffee & donuts delivered TO THE STREET cos we didn't chance leaving for a moment. We went into the hotel for tea around noontime just so we could be inside just in case. Nothing. Bob Dylan was at the same hotel and his mgr came out and told us that Bob was coming out and not to mob him, and we told him we didn't care about Bob (!!) we were there to see George. Finally at 4:15/4:30 George checked out and he told us just to let him get to his van, and then he slid the van side door open and got in and he left the door open so we could stand semi-circle in front. None of us took photos or asked for autograph, it was just nice to talk to him for 2 minutes or so. And then he had to leave.
It was worth it! even more so as we never got to see him again as he began his illness not long after.
I was visiting my co-President Tina Funk in Germany in the weeks after that, and David called us at her house (he'd tried my house & Mom told him I was in Germany) and he was getting over pneumonia that he'd caught at that Pennsylvania appearance. If you ever see video footage some fan took back then, you will see that it was so cold that day (we froze outide NY hotel) there too and David only had a thin leather jacket on and he had to borrow gloves from a radio DJ. Luckily he didn't get a bad case of it and only had a nagging cough left, as you do after a cold.
Barbara
JD
I've been lucky to have met each one of them more than once. Its something I treasure very much.
Barbara
JD
Thank you so much for sharing, Barbara. I really appreciate it!! Amazing stories. Some of your comments cracked me up. "Holy S--T, There He Is!" Yeah, I get that one. I think I would have been among the fainting ones. I've read from some fans that he was even better looking in person.
I've got to say though, I really don't have what it takes to be a very dedicated fan. When I was a young teen, "The Police" was my favorite band but I never would have camped out overnight to buy concert tickets (as many did). I got up super early and was in line for 6 am - what a rush! In the eighties, I once went from hotel to hotel with another fan (whom I'd just met) to meet Bryan Adams post-concert. After 3 hotels, we gave up. Nope, it takes a special kind of dedication to be a "super fan" and I've never had it.
BTW, Barbara, when you choose your identity when leaving a comment, just pick the one that says Name/URL and type in your name instead of picking the last box which is "Anonymous". You have 4 options under "choose an identity", right? The first for me is my Google Account, the 2nd is "Open ID", 3rd: "Name/URL" (no need for a URL) and the 4th and last is "Anonymous". Let me know if your options are different.
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