Comments on: DAVID CASSIDY - “Daydreamer”/”The Puppy Song”

By: trevor

trevor — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 00:49:25 +0000

The OFFICIAL CHARTS COMPANY do not compile the chart…the chart is compiled by MILWARD BROWN for the OFFICIAL CHARTS COMPANY.

By: mike

mike — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 15:19:14 +0000

According to a friend of mine who used to be in her fan club, “The Puppy Song” was actually written by Harry Nilsson for…

…Mary Hopkin!

By: Rosie

Rosie — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 11:13:56 +0000

Was this really a double A side? I remember Puppy Song much more vividly than Daydreamer, mainly I suppose because it’s such a terrific bouncy tune that wriggles in the head without being intrusive. Still prefer Harry Nilsson’s version though (he wrote it, didn’t he?) which made a nice counterpoint to Without You

By: Erithian

Erithian — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 16:41:35 +0000

Nobody took up the quiz question at #32 (or everybody knew it, perhaps) - the answer is Chris de Burgh. Look forward to a lively discussion about him in due course…

By: Brian

Brian — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 16:29:35 +0000

or Johnny, rotten as puck.

By: Brian

Brian — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 16:29:06 +0000

Johnny Rotten as Puck.

By: Snif

Snif — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 04:10:26 +0000

“Now Bonnie Tyler would make a terrific Lady M.”

Walking down corridors at night, with curtains blowing, singing “Out, damn Spot”….and Banquo’s ghost played by a schoolboy with glowing eyes?

By: Erithian

Erithian — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 15:18:01 +0000

I take it from the “scweam and scweam” bit that you mean Bonnie Langford. Now Bonnie Tyler would make a terrific Lady M.

How about Meatloaf as Falstaff?

By: Waldo

Waldo — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 13:45:52 +0000

Bonnie as Lady Macbeth. She’ll scweam and scweam and scweam…the noo!

By: Waldo

Waldo — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 12:27:57 +0000

Johnny Cash as Prospero. Good. I can see it.

Lemmy flitting around as Ariel I probably couldn’t…

By: Marcello Carlin

Marcello Carlin — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 11:47:58 +0000

Catch My Soul, written by Jack Good and directed for the screen by Patrick McGoohan, with Richie Havens as Othello and Tony Joe White as Cassio. Jerry Lee may well have played Iago in the stage version but in the film it was one Lance LeGault.

By: Billy Smart

Billy Smart — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 11:41:34 +0000

I do know that in the 1970s there were plans to stage a rock’n'roll Othello on Broadway starring Sammy Davis Jr. with Jerry Lee Lewis as Iago!

Whenever I hear Johnny Cash’s version of I Can See a Darkness, I imagine him as Prospero, throwing away his book and staff.

By: Erithian

Erithian — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 11:21:34 +0000

If pop stars were Shakespearean characters – love it – more please.

A favourite quiz question – who has had a UK number 1 single and also has (genuinely it seems) an ancestor in the dramatis personae of Shakespeare’s “King John”?

By: Waldo

Waldo — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 10:59:22 +0000

I think Billy’s comparison is touching. Without a doubt Bernadette Whelan’s death devestated Cassidy and was “outragious fortune” indeed.
On a lighter note but still on Shakesperian pair-offs and since The Who will not be troubling us and are therefore a spoiler-free zone, how about Keith Moon for Caliban?

By: Billy Smart

Billy Smart — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 09:25:03 +0000

I always think of Cassidy as the Prince Hamlet of teenpop - a golden boy laid down by a very grown-up sense of doubt, regret and confusion. It somehow seems inevitable that the White City death would cast shadows over Cassidy’s career, rather than happen to the Osmonds - who have always struck me as a ruthlessly efficient entertainment machine by comparison.

By: Marcello Carlin

Marcello Carlin — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 08:36:56 +0000

David’s heartfelt columns in Fab 208 magazine - “DAVID ASKS: WHAT ARE WE DOING TO THIS WORLD?”

By: Andy

Andy — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 08:24:56 +0000

I remember being jealous of what my younger sister had with David Cassidy because despite my love of Sweet and Slade it wasn’t the strange, unconditional love that a pre-teen girl has for a pretty young boy. I guess my brother was jealous as well because he took a compass to my sisters Cassidy collection.

BTW Sparky’s Magic Piano is probably the scariest record ever made - I heard it Sunday morning and it still sent shivers up my spine…weird controlling talking pianos are not a good thing!

By: Brian

Brian — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 15:14:50 +0000

There is a great cover of ” The Letter ” by Joe Cocker on the ” Mad Dogs & Englisman ” LP. One of the better live albums. I generally hate live albums - but love going to concerts. Anybody else feel the same ?

By: Waldo

Waldo — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 13:14:58 +0000

Precisely. Totally awful. “The Letter” may have been over in about thirty seconds but what an absolute cracker. It was number one in the US at this time. The only guys of our generation NOT to have heard of The Box Tops were those two “comedians”. Very disappointing. Low grade humour from a couple of guys who should have done better.

See me…

By: Marcello Carlin

Marcello Carlin — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 12:51:14 +0000

“The unheard of Box Tops,” “the not Fred West Keith West.” Sidesplitting.

By: Waldo

Waldo — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 12:40:28 +0000

Yes, that chart was strong, wasn’t it? One of Popular’s icons, Anita Harris, featured and it was good to hear Frankie Vaughan’s “There Must Be A Way” (a drunk’s song indeed, and I should know), the first time I’ve heard that since snooker player Joe Johnson amusingly started crooning it during a match when faced with a more than tricky shot.

Less sure about the chart countdown, when Smashie and Nicey featured “The dead Jimi Hendrix”, “The blind Stevie Wonder” and “The Jewish Frankie Vaughan” etc; all very un-PC from Leading Lefty Harry Enfied, who was probably forgiven by the Guardianista by taking a swipe at “Call Me Dave”.

By: Marcello Carlin

Marcello Carlin — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 11:29:34 +0000

I only kept on with Smashie and Nicey because the underlying chart was so strong (Sept ‘67 - 15 out of the top 20 total classics, and even the MoR penny dreadfuls didn’t bother me that much) but their routine was staler than the Streatham Hill Somerfield breadbin on the average Sunday afternoon.

By: mike

mike — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 11:29:01 +0000

Re. that TOTP airport appearance, I remember DC looking off to the side and grinning during the “we could be so happy together, yodely-odely-odely-oh!” section of “The Puppy Song”, and thinking that the backing vocals were being supplied impromptu by a bunch of cheery baggage handlers, or some such.

By: jeff w

jeff w — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 11:23:08 +0000

I caught yesterday’s show as well…
Yep, me too… and Paul Hollingdale, and Everett - an amazing broadcast, a useful lesson in how music radio can engage and involve the listener without having to be literally interactive - and as much of Smashie and Nicey as I could stand (about half).

I confess I only listened to Junior Choice to hear “My Bruvver” - and of course it just had to be the last song Stewart played. It still stands up, though: great comic timing by Terry Scott throughout.

By: Marcello Carlin

Marcello Carlin — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 11:17:36 +0000

It certainly does ring a bell.

I had no idea that the first record played on Radio 2 was Julie and “the hills are alive” but of course it all makes perfect sense.