hey everybody how you doing it's Bruce here with Traveling with Bruce today you
have entered into the daily to this video right here is my first daily video
I am shooting this video on November 22nd 2017
today and I will post this today I thought I would try and do some dailies
and see how they kind of go over I want to talk about kind of what's happening
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today November 22nd 2017 I want to talk about the passing of time and the
passing of people and last night in the evening we got word that David Cassidy
who was Keith Partridge on the Partridge Family the TV show passed away 67 years
old died of multiple organ failure we knew he was ill in the last four or five
days we've been getting updates and bulletins and twitter has been quite
active regarding Mr. Cassidy's health and it had been failing lately and we
knew the end was near and sadly he passed thankfully
he had time to say his good byes his family had time he was surrounded by
family and friends when he passed away and I'm sure the doctors made it as
painless as possible for him to ease the pain and everything else so
god bless him and he has left us. But he isn't gone David Cassidy was a sensation
a pop sensation one of those first heart throbs well television heart throbs I
suppose in 1970 ABC television launched a show called The Partridge Family and
David Cassidy played the role of the eldest son. Shirley Jones his actual
stepmother in real life played the mom character and there were a number of
other siblings that were in this suburban California based band that went
on to become famous and it's all make believe on television however
During pre-production and and the lead-up to the show
the producers of the show wanted to produce some songs for this band to
perform on the show during the season and they had no idea that this show
become as big as it became but they had the foresight to think about producing
some songs with professional musicians. They used the Wrecking Crew in Los
Angeles if you don't know who the Wrecking Crew is probably three to four
hundred of the top ten hits recorded through the 1960s and into the 70s were
performed by studio musicians known as the Wrecking Crew in Los Angeles and
they were the best of the best. The best guitar players best bass players
drummers and other instruments and these musicians were brought in to
produce the music for the Partridge Family in the early
days and David Cassidy was insistent enough to say hey you gave me
the role of Keith Partridge for The Partridge Family and I know you've got
Shirley Jones playing my mom and she certainly can sing as she's a
Broadway performer movie performer fantastic singer I want to sing on the
on the soundtrack as well since I am the the lead singer of the group I want to
be on there. I can sing my father was a singer as well Jack Cassidy was his dad
and Jack Cassidy was a fantastic singer performer and actor as well in his own
right and so the the producers thought why not yeah let's put him in the studio
and let's get him singing in there and we'll do take after take until he gets
it right and if he's willing to work his tail off let's go for it and that's what
happened Keith Partridge or David Cassidy was singing
his actual own vocals and it was the smartest movie ever made because the
show was an instant sensation it was number one in its time slot it was
broadcast on Friday nights at 8:30 number one in its timeslot a top 20 show
viewership for The Partridge Family was in the eleven to fourteen million
viewers per episode range the second and third season were its best highest-rated
and it dominated its time slot the other two networks couldn't put anything
up against it to knock it off his perch and the show was so popular that
more recordings had to be made more songs had to be recorded from just the
demand and the record companies were screaming and distributors were
desperate for anything to do The Partridge Family we all know that lunch
boxes were made calendars were made the teen magazines were filled with
David Cassidy and other photos of the so called band of the Partridge
Family and so a total of eight albums eight
albums! Were created for the Partridge Family in four years
unbelievable the song I think I love You came a number one hit on the Billboard
charts selling 5 million copies and outselling Let it Be from the Beatles in
1970 unreal David Cassidy took this opportunity so that between seasons
between shooting the TV show he would have three four months of time
he would be out on the road going globally on world tours performing on
stage he became a millionaire as a singer performer around the world doing
this so he had songs on the radio he was releasing albums again with The
Partridge Family and then after the series ended he was releasing his own albums.
As the show entered its fourth year in 1974 and at that point in time by that time
the cast were pretty tired of it. It had been a lot of work and had been a
whirlwind for David Cassidy it had been unbelievable work I had heard that he
would be in Vegas on weekends or fly to st. Louis on weekends to do a concert
and then fly back to Los Angeles to film his next television show... the next week's
show I mean it was just relentless the schedule that he was under the pressure
so when the fourth season came along everybody was exhausted and they wanted
this thing to be over with and ABC television whether they did this on
purpose or not I don't know what their thinking was but they had the
number one time slot Friday night 8:30 with this show they inexplicably
put the Partridge Family on television against All in the Family on Saturday
night and All in the Family at that time was
the number one show in all of television it dominated all the Nielsen ratings the
Nielsen ratings and so when the Partridge Family aired on Saturday
nights against the the All on a Family show it went from being a top 10 top 20
show on television to number 78 it was all over and maybe ABC television knew
that they had a show that just wasn't up to the standards anymore or the scripts
were becoming kind of weak at the end of the fourth season 96 shows had been made
and the last year's shows were probably pretty bad and so
mercifully it ended on television. Now for David Cassidy it didn't end, it
continued on he now could focus his full-time energies on live stage
performances and recording going forward. For the rest of the Partridge Family
members for Susan Dey she got out of there and was able to join a few short years
later the cast of LA Law which was a top-rated television show one hour show
and she was nominated for four Emmy Awards in that show winning one Emmy
herself as Best Actress fantastic news. Shirley Jones
went back to Broadway and to movies and to other television shows. Shirley Jones was
hardly unemployed she did very well but for David Cassidy he started touring
the world and did what he really wanted to do he wanted to perform make music
and records and that's what he did for a number of years so the passing of David
Cassidy is sort of for a certain members of our world a certain age group of our
generation is the passing a milestone it's a sort of a an icon having passed
us by whether you liked his music or not it didn't matter he was an incredibly
popular person on an incredibly popular show and in the early 70s they held a
special place in the hearts of a certain demographic of people. In my case one
of those iconic moments happened suddenly and without warning tragically
in 1980 16 days from now on December the 8th 1980 John Lennon was killed outside
of his apartment of the Dakota apartments in New York City and if you
ask anyone my age or older where they were you when you heard John Lennon was
killed we can tell you pretty certainly where we were. In my case I was at home
watching television Monday Night Football and Howard Cosell announced the
death of John Lennon on national television also on the ABC
television network ironically and he announced it on Monday Night Football and that news
spread like wildfire that news spread globally like wildfire it was probably
about about 8:00 in the evening where I was in Calgary Alberta Canada it was
10:00 in the evening in New York and it would have been what would have been two
or three in the morning in London England
and within hours within a few hours the world knew that John London had passed
us and that was a shock that was a terrible shock and it changed every one
of us who experienced that. It affected us we were stunned the world was stunned
when it happened because it happened so violently and totally inexplicably
and we're still dealing with it today unbelievably and another passing
happened that was also significant today November 22nd. Go back to November
22nd 1963 on this day it was a Friday John F Kennedy was killed assassinated
in Dallas on this day November the 22nd and you ask anyone of if you had asked
anyone who was alive say 20 years old or older at that time where were you when
you heard the news they can instantly tell you exactly where they were that
moment in time people refer to the JFK assassination as the first real event
that happened on television because for from that moment on from Friday
afternoon on November of the 22nd 1963 until through Saturday through Sunday
and even Monday television was non-stop following the events of the
assassination of the president but in reality the president wasn't
assassinated on television. he was not on television when
the assassination occurred. He was in his limousine as he was
driving to an event and there was no live television on him
at that time the only video or early movie that exists of the
assassination was done by a private individual named Zapruder who was
holding an 8 millimeter home movie camera and he
was filming the limousine just driving by where he happened to be standing and
at the moment that the limo was passing him by the President was assassinated by
Lee Harvey Oswald. Two days later on the 24th of November 1963 however, an
assassination was broadcast on live television... a number of networks were
carrying the supposed transfer of Lee Harvey Oswald. He was supposed to be
transferred from the Dallas police station in downtown Dallas to the I
believe it was to be the Dallas County Jail he was going to be transported there and
television stations were going to broadcast the event of him being walked
down a hallway to a waiting vehicle to take him to the jail. They
brought in a Brinks armored truck to carry him to take him to
jail and they figured we'll make it a bulletproof truck because all
kinds of people wanted to get this guy and wouldn't you know it as he was being led
in handcuffs down the the walkway towards the truck an individual popped
out from where all the reporters were standing with a handgun and shot Lee
Harvey Oswald in the abdomen on live national television and within 15-20
minutes he was dead. Unbelievable so the event, those
events were just stunning and it just riveted the country the United States and
the world were riveted to this story and JFK sadly lay in state and then they
covered the funeral and it was just a terrible week so you know when people
die pending on how it happens and when it
happens we remember and so you have JFK you have John Lennon and and now we have
David Cassidy. But in the case of David Cassidy thankfully this wasn't the
tragic sudden event where he was pulled away from us violently or anything like
that he died surrounded by the people who loved him the most and died
peacefully. At 67 we'll say it's too soon yes we will say it's too soon but that's
the way it goes sometimes for some you die with your family around you. For
others you don't. You just never know when it happens and that's the way it
goes anyway today that is my first daily I'm going to post this video later today
I don't know if you'll like it or not I hope you do I'm gonna try and do one of
these every day going forward and I have no idea what I'm going to talk about
tomorrow. No idea! We'll find out what the world is doing and see what
captures my interest. If any of you out there are watching this video
tell me where you were when you heard the news about someone famous passing
away Kurt Cobain where were you or Batman
Bruce Wayne I can't remember his name right I can't remember it.
Adam West! Where were you when you heard about that
or of JFK or John Lennon or someone else that passed away that you
couldn't believe. Leave them in my comments down below and I'd be kind of
curious to see what your thoughts are thanks for watching my video today
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