David Cassidy and Me
 David Bruce Cassidy April 12, 1950 - November 21, 2017 |
The plot was fashioned of a sorts around a real-life musical family known as the Cowsills and involved the Partridge family's music career.
It was something I watched, primarily due to a lack of choices.
It ran from September 1970 thru March of 1974 thereby covering my entire high school years and that uncomfortable awkward year afterward and given my personal situation it was difficult for me to really "like" much about that era in my life at all.
Subsequent syndication runs failed to interest me at all. However, I was known to view it on occasion even then because the other choices available were equally dismal.
During the time frame this left David Cassidy part of the trendy froth of the period with the little girls swooning and this only increased my disdain for him ... not that it really mattered.
Petty jealousy was the least of my problems in the early to mid 1970s with the abject failures, the culmination of my Navy career, a taste of real life unprotected by Mama and Daddy, and that deep abding woe which was the incompetence of how I handled my personal affairs up til then.
What was a teen idol superstar pop singer of the 1970s in the big picture anyway ?
I had innumerable other all consuming matters to which I attended.
I recall his appearance on Arsenio Hall much later during one of those late evenings in Salley, SC while I was teaching college ... and how he appeared to totally forget that his heyday was long past. This resulted in his chastisement on the next episode by Arsenio Hall who was famous for such antics. I must say that the entire two segments were pretty hilarious with the poor girl in the audience wondering who this guy was hanging all over her totally immersed in the moment singing a song she never heard before because she was born 20 years later.
David Cassidy had a problem with alcohol and announced he was suffering from dementia a short while prior to his death three years back. Regardless of that contempt I felt in my late 'manchildhood' I had no real issues with David Cassidy that ever mattered — and was sorry both for his suffering and his passing.
Rest in peace.