RIP David Cassidy

Randy Sparks, founder of the folk group The New Christy Minstrels, is a friend. After he sold his interest in the group in 1964 (he re-acquired it in 2005 and at age 84 still tours the country with the re-constituted NCM) he operated a folk music night club in West L.A.

E-mail from Randy yesterday:

David Cassidy died today, and now I have that on my conscience. When my #2 Group, The Back Porch Majority, and I were on tour with Shirley Jones, we played Pittsburgh, and David, Shirley's stepson, came running onstage at our rehearsal. "I heard that Randy Sparks is here," he said, "and I could hardly wait to meet you. I had my first drink at your place on Westwood Blvd." I was stunned, mostly because he was famously so young, likely about 23 then, and Ledbetter's had been gone for a few years, so that meant he was too young to drink when he said he did. "I was fourteen," he said, almost proudly. "How was that even possible?" I wanted to know, as we were so very careful in carding everybody. "I didn't have to buy it," he admitted, "because the older guys would slide the glasses of beer to us along the back wall." I'm so sorry that he's gone. He was a very nice boy.
 
I've seen a few documentaries about him. The girls (and women) threw themselves at him. Not just him, but he had a rooomate for a while and the roommate said girls would knock on their door while he was on tour. The roommate would invite them in, explain that David was gone, but they could....*ahem*...keep him occupied until David returned.

I felt bad that he knew alcohol was a problem he couldn't overcome. But he always did seem like a good guy.

Too bad Susan Dey could never forgive him though.
 
I was in high school when the show was on TV. My older sister loved it but I thought it was silly. Still don’t see the attraction.
 
The show was great. David was talented, indeed.

My sister (older than me) had posters of David and Mick Jagger on the walls in her room.
 
Ugg. First Charle Manson, now this?!?! Who's next, Justin Bieber?
 
I am in the demographic that would have gone crazy for him back then. He was cute, but a little too sweet. Sad, nevertheless.
 
I was in high school when the show was on TV. My older sister loved it but I thought it was silly. Still don’t see the attraction.

Me too. But I was out at night doing what teenage boys do with a drivers license.
 
The show was great. David was talented, indeed.

My sister (older than me) had posters of David and Mick Jagger on the walls in her room.

So you had a poster of Cassidy in your room? :eek:
 
We threatened to paint my friend's RV-7A like the Partridge Family bus, with rattle cans from Home Depot.

So sad. RIP, Mr. Cassidy.

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Read that his biggest song was "I Think I Love You", yikes if that's the best he could do!
Never liked the show, but RIP!
 
Gosh, well over 24 hours and no vitriol about addiction, being a scumbag, etc, like the "just another dead crack whore" comments when Whitney Houston passed.

Henning is dearly missed. <not>
 
Gosh, well over 24 hours and no vitriol about addiction, being a scumbag, etc, like the "just another dead crack whore" comments when Whitney Houston passed.

Henning is dearly missed. <not>

We expended all of our vitriol for this week on Manson. Though I’m sure we still got some in reserve.
 
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