Rarities
Rarities
| Partridge Family "Welcome to Our Club" fan club records
Put out by the Tiger Beat Magazine in 1971 and 1972 with Partridge Family
fan club kit. First record was a black flexi disc and the second was a
purple cardboard record with a picture of the group in it.
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David Cassidy "Welcome to My Club" fan club record
Put out by Tiger Beat in 1972 with the David Cassidy fan club kit. It was a blue cardboard 45 with a picture of David on it. |
Medic Alert Radio Spots
Catalog no.: DR 5649 Put out in the early 1970s. This record featured spots by David and Shirley promoting Medic Alert wrist bracelets. |
| The Partridge Family VIII 1973-74 Season
Catalog no.: Screen Gems PF-8 One-sided, in-house record put out by Screen Gems during the Partridge
Family run. The record - one of at least nine that seem to have been pressed
- appears to be a test-pressing of sorts of the songs used on the show
during a particular season. This record contains "Cryin' In The Rain,"
"When Love's Talked About," and "Working On A Groovy Thing." All three
of those songs were done only on the show and never released commercially.
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The Partridge Family IX 1973-74 Season
Catalog no.: Screen Gems PF-9 Same as the above record, but includes more non-LP songs such as "I'm Into Something Good" and "I Wanna Be With You." Also contains a song called "I Was Running The Opposite Way" which never made it on to the show itself. At one time, Tiger Beat magazine printed the lyrics to the song and said it was going to be part of the Cherish album. |
Air Force ROTC Radio Spots
Put out around 1973, this record featured spots by David promoting Army ROTC. A snippet of "The Puppy Song" was played on each of the spots. |
| David Cassidy Talks to Melanie Readers
Released: 1973
Put out by Melanie magazine in England, this black flexi disc featured
a message from David to his British fans.
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Words of Love From David Cassidy
Released: 1973
Put out by Jackie magazine in England. This flexi disc featured a message
from David to his fans in Britain.
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Everything You Always Wanted To Know About David Cassidy
Released: 1972
Audio-Biography in which David tells all. |
| Saturday Scene
Released: 1974
Released only in England, this album contains an interview with David,
as well as interviews with Gary Glitter and Sweet.
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RCA Sampler
Released: 1975 This clear plastic, seven-inch flexi disc was put out by KJR-95 in Seattle.
It featured 6 1/2 minutes of music from six new RCA albums, including David's
"Higher They Climb." Also included bits from Starship (Red Octopus) and
Hall and Oates (Camellia). Other stations in other states probably distributed
this as well.
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Earth News Radio Interview Disc
Released: June 30, 1975 This record, distributed in the US to radio stations, contained a six-part interview - including commercials - with David. He talked about trying to shake being a teen idol. Other artists on the disc included Ian Hunter and Three Dog Night. |
| Hot News interview record
Released: May 24, 1976 This record, distributed only to radio, contained a three-part interview
with David who talked about "Home Is Where The Heart Is."
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Enigma sampler
Released: August 1990 Five-song, one-side advance cassette that features snippets of five
songs (Lyin' To Myself, Message To The World, Living Without You, Stranger
In Your Heart and Hi-Heel Sneakers) from the "David Cassidy" album. Came
with plain white insert that listed his name and the song titles.
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Unreleased songs
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Ain't Love Easy (Episode 57)
There are songs that never made it into the show at all, such as:
Some songs played in the show differed from the album versions. These
included:
Finally, on the Partridge Family/My Three Sons Thanksgiving Reunion
show broadcast on ABC in 1977, David sang two unreleased songs:
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David has worked on several album projects - at least - that have never seen the light of day. Here's a rundown: In 1978, he was working on an album for Warner/Curb. He was reportedly working with the group Brooklyn Dreams on some of the tracks. Hard Times (Hard Crimes), the theme to David Cassidy - Man Undercover, was supposed to be released as a single. In 1982, he recorded at least three sides with Larry Butler in Nashville. The tracks, for a proposed country-crossover album were scrapped because David wasn't pleased with the outcome. In 1983, David announced he was going to write and record an album with Jimmy Webb. Nothing was ever released. In 1989, he began working with Sue Shifrin on an album for MCA. Some of these tracks ended up on the Enigma album. |
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A plethora of unreleased material is available in the form of 1970s
concerts recorded by fans. Some of the unreleased songs David did in the
1970s include
These tapes are also the only source for live versions of songs such
as
On July 4th, 1983, David played in Philadelphia with Jimmy Webb.
They did five songs:
Almost all of David's 1985 concert set was captured on the Starblend album (part of which was released by Starblend as a 54-minute video). Occasionally, though, he strayed from his normal set and did The Letter and - at a fan's request - he did The Puppy Song. In December (year?), at a concert/party sponsored by a Toledo radio station, David climbed on stage with Vixen and jammed on Sympathy For The Devil. On December 21 (year?), David sang Stranger In Your Heart and I Think I Love You at the Mark and Brian Christmas Party. In May 1989, David played three songs - Treat Me Like You Used To, Crazy Over You, and I'll Never Stop Loving You - on the Mark and Brian radio show on KLOS-FM in Los Angeles. The first and last songs were duets with Sue Shifrin, who co-wrote the songs with David. During his 1991 tour, David sang Cry, which has never been
released. On two shows he also did I'm Gonna Be Strong (originally
a Gene Pitney song, also covered by Cyndi Lauper and Juice Newton).
Television Shows David's guest appearances on various shows have resulted in a number
of unreleased tracks and alternate versions, including
Some of this material exists on audio and some on video.
Theater tapes
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Bootlegs
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Released: 1982 on SG Records
Two-record, 31-song bootleg set sold by a store called Goin' Back Enterprises in Hawaii. Originally, the set was advertised as having unreleased tracks, interviews and other rarities. Basically, it was a rip off. It came in a plain white cover with a xeroxed sheet as the cover. It consisted of songs from Cassidy Live!, Christmas Card and various Partridge Family songs. The only so-called rarities on it were If I Didn't Care, Frozen Noses, All I Wanna Do Is Touch You, and Strengthen My Love (a song David sang on the 1977 Partridge Family/My Three Sons Reunion shown on ABC). |
Thanks to Mark Wyckoff and DISCoveries magazine for the information and help to put this page together. Some images used on this page are courtesy of Alexandre Pimental da Silva and other contributors to The Record Room of The Downunder David Cassidy Fansite. Please do not use them without prior consent of the website owner.