Any Partridge Family Fans in the House?
I was wondering if any of you are/were fans of the Partridge Family series on TV in the 70's. I mention it because I went to a concert on July 3rd at Busch Gardens in Tampa. It featured none other than everyone's 70's wet dream David Cassidy. I was only about 8 years old when I first saw the show. I liked it alot of course. But no character more so than David Cassidy. I kinda knew when I drooled over his photo on the album cover that I was not like the other boys. lol He gave my one of the first of many clues that I was a little different.
When girls in my elementary class brought in copies of magazines like Tiger Beat and the like I loved to look at photos of David and my other crush Bobby Sherman. I always seemed to know that I shouldn't show too much interest in the guys in the magazines. How do we instinctively get that defensive mode of self preservation and secrecy at such a young age? I've always wondered about that...
Anyway, the concert... He is introduced on the stage and he walks out in jeans and a nice button down fitted white shirt that's untucked. It's open at the top to show some chest. He looked great! From the distance at least. I was also surprised at how good his hair looked. Last I saw him on TV his hair looked rough. The first thing that struck me when he walked out though was that he had to be very short. Even without other people standing next to him for a point of comparison you could tell he was not very tall.
His onstage persona was great. Inasmuch as he didn't take himself too seriously. He had a self deprecating sense of humor that suited him very well. He would wait for lulls in the vocals of the songs to make quips with the audience. He plugged a new TV show of his coming out on the 22nd in which he says, "Get this. I play a washed up 80's rock star trying to make a comeback." The show is directed and produced by his brother Shaun. Who will ever forget that scene on Hardy Boys when Shaun Cassidy and Parker Stevenson walked down the staircase wearing only their thighty whities? OMG! I don't think network TV would try to get away with that even today. Anyway I digress...
I noticed that there sure were alot of old farts in the crowd. LOL Teasing... No hate mail please!
I was thinking that David was only a few years older than I, so I was surprised to see so many people much older than myself. But there were all ages there.
He said at one point that he was wearing a wig. He said in a wistful boyish voice, "Yeah... I just don't have as much hair as I used to." And the audience responded with a sympathetic and playful "Awwwww...." After his first few songs he brought out a stool to sit in front of the microphone. He said there was a time when he didn't ever use a stool on stage. "But you know. Things change." (More sympathetic applause from the audience) "Seems like only last year I was 39. (Laughter from audience) When it was really about...8 years ago." I knew that would still make him too young so I made a note to check on his age later.
At 8:30 pm it was still about 88 degrees with about 95% humidity. A typical sweaty, sticky, gooey, Florida summer evening. He said that if we though it was hot out there in the audience that we should try standing under all the bright lights that he has trained on him. LOL He brought his wife up on stage to sing a duet with him. When she walked up to him the first thing she said was: "OMG! You're soaking wet! The audience roared. He was too! That white shirt was now plastered to his skin like glue. His wife came on stage in jeans, BIG hair and this garish bumblebee yellow and black striped 1970's oversized blouse. It was 1970's deja vu all over again. LOL They sang a duet of "I Think I Love You." It was pretty good.
I know that David's father Jack died tragically in a house fire many years ago now. I heard rumors years ago that he was gay. In spite of the fact that he had been married twice. I heard that he was in a relationship with a man when he died. Does anyone know if that's true?
I checked David's bio later and found that he is only 5'6''. And I could not believe this but he is 60 years old. OMG! Where did the time go? No wonder he has a fan base whose ages go from low 40's to 70's and up.
I was wondering if any of you are/were fans of the Partridge Family series on TV in the 70's. I mention it because I went to a concert on July 3rd at Busch Gardens in Tampa. It featured none other than everyone's 70's wet dream David Cassidy. I was only about 8 years old when I first saw the show. I liked it alot of course. But no character more so than David Cassidy. I kinda knew when I drooled over his photo on the album cover that I was not like the other boys. lol He gave my one of the first of many clues that I was a little different.
When girls in my elementary class brought in copies of magazines like Tiger Beat and the like I loved to look at photos of David and my other crush Bobby Sherman. I always seemed to know that I shouldn't show too much interest in the guys in the magazines. How do we instinctively get that defensive mode of self preservation and secrecy at such a young age? I've always wondered about that...
Anyway, the concert... He is introduced on the stage and he walks out in jeans and a nice button down fitted white shirt that's untucked. It's open at the top to show some chest. He looked great! From the distance at least. I was also surprised at how good his hair looked. Last I saw him on TV his hair looked rough. The first thing that struck me when he walked out though was that he had to be very short. Even without other people standing next to him for a point of comparison you could tell he was not very tall.
His onstage persona was great. Inasmuch as he didn't take himself too seriously. He had a self deprecating sense of humor that suited him very well. He would wait for lulls in the vocals of the songs to make quips with the audience. He plugged a new TV show of his coming out on the 22nd in which he says, "Get this. I play a washed up 80's rock star trying to make a comeback." The show is directed and produced by his brother Shaun. Who will ever forget that scene on Hardy Boys when Shaun Cassidy and Parker Stevenson walked down the staircase wearing only their thighty whities? OMG! I don't think network TV would try to get away with that even today. Anyway I digress...
I noticed that there sure were alot of old farts in the crowd. LOL Teasing... No hate mail please!

He said at one point that he was wearing a wig. He said in a wistful boyish voice, "Yeah... I just don't have as much hair as I used to." And the audience responded with a sympathetic and playful "Awwwww...." After his first few songs he brought out a stool to sit in front of the microphone. He said there was a time when he didn't ever use a stool on stage. "But you know. Things change." (More sympathetic applause from the audience) "Seems like only last year I was 39. (Laughter from audience) When it was really about...8 years ago." I knew that would still make him too young so I made a note to check on his age later.
At 8:30 pm it was still about 88 degrees with about 95% humidity. A typical sweaty, sticky, gooey, Florida summer evening. He said that if we though it was hot out there in the audience that we should try standing under all the bright lights that he has trained on him. LOL He brought his wife up on stage to sing a duet with him. When she walked up to him the first thing she said was: "OMG! You're soaking wet! The audience roared. He was too! That white shirt was now plastered to his skin like glue. His wife came on stage in jeans, BIG hair and this garish bumblebee yellow and black striped 1970's oversized blouse. It was 1970's deja vu all over again. LOL They sang a duet of "I Think I Love You." It was pretty good.
I know that David's father Jack died tragically in a house fire many years ago now. I heard rumors years ago that he was gay. In spite of the fact that he had been married twice. I heard that he was in a relationship with a man when he died. Does anyone know if that's true?
I checked David's bio later and found that he is only 5'6''. And I could not believe this but he is 60 years old. OMG! Where did the time go? No wonder he has a fan base whose ages go from low 40's to 70's and up.
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