A Community Remembers David Cassidy In West Orange NJ

A hometown tribute became something far bigger: a community rediscovering the power of a singular voice. We take you to West Orange NJ where David Cassidy fans, friends, and family gathered for a two-day celebration that felt like a living scrapbook—motorcade to Colgate Field, a full-sized Partridge bus backdrop, and a surprise that stopped everyone in their tracks. It wasn’t just nostalgia, it was proof of a vocalist whose depth and range still cut straight to the heart. And after the day-time festivities, by night, The Highlawn turned into a dance floor under city lights, with a David Cassidy tribute band and tables supporting charities like the "I Think I Love You" Foundation. 

We also share the first deep look at Once Upon a Picture, David Cassidy.  This forthcoming, full-color hardcover book pairs Henry Diltz’s unreleased photos with David’s handwritten journal pages and dozens of interviews. Built chronologically, the book lets images do the storytelling while Henry’s memories reveal the trust, warmth, and craft behind them. The result is more than memorabilia—it’s a map of an artist’s life, told by a friend who was there.

If you love music history, classic pop, or the legacy of a voice that deserved more, this is your front-row seat. Listen, remember, and then press play on the records again. If the story moved you, subscribe, share this episode with a fellow fan, and leave a review to help others find the show.

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Transcript

Setting The Scene

SPEAKER_00 0:00

But you know, uh so this day, this particular day, and for me, this one moment was, and I I I have to think that those who were there will probably agree with me on this, it was the most powerful moment of them all. So what happens is Bo and Katie are about to come up and speak. The organizers, the mayor are speaking to all of us, you know, kind of telling us what's gonna happen and who's gonna speak and thanking people. And what no one knew was coming, at least I know I sure didn't, was that they asked us to stand for the pledge of allegiance. I think it was a pledge of allegiance.

SPEAKER_02 0:39

So we stand for the pledge of allegiance, and you know, I can't remember if it was the Pledge of Allegiance, but we stood, and I just remember all of a sudden, out of this booming speaker, so everybody's gonna be able to do it.

SPEAKER_00 2:07

Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey you guys, hey, it's great to talk to you.

SPEAKER_02 2:12

Do you believe this is a three-piece? This is a three-piece.

SPEAKER_00 2:16

It's unbelievable. I know. I l I love every second of it.

SPEAKER_02 2:19

Oh, thank you, John. You're one of our favorites. We can never get enough, Johnny. Oh, and you've been busy.

SPEAKER_00 2:26

Oh busy year. You blow up my ego. Thank you. Yeah. Definitely a busy year for sure.

unknown 2:32

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 2:32

Well, you know what Henry Diltz would say. So Henry Diltz would say, we because we talk about off-topic things on the phone a lot, and he's very much into um horoscopes and the Chinese horoscope. And so it turns out I didn't know any much about the Chinese horoscope, but I've learned that it's they're based on animals, and they're they relate to the years that you were born, and I don't know how it all you know unfolds. But what I come to find out is that I'm a snake. Oh, that's not that's not yeah. So that kind of sounded terrible to me. But then like most of the uh most of the Chinese animals that represent the horoscopes all sound kind of scary if you had to say that.

SPEAKER_02 3:18

Yeah, they had a tiger, the lion, the the snake. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 3:22

Yeah, so anyway, uh this year, 2025, is the year of the snake. So Henry says it's my year. He says, you know, this is gonna culminate in a really grand year for me. So I I would like to think that has to do with our book coming out together uh by the end of the year, and certainly the event in uh West Orange, New Jersey is part of that. And so little little trivia there.

SPEAKER_02 3:50

We're gonna we're gonna definitely talk to you a little bit about the new book coming out, but we want to really hear more about the David Cassidy tribute and West Orange. This was really important because his kids showed up.

SPEAKER_01 4:05

Who thought of this event with the David Cassidy dedication and all that? The date, yeah. The date too. Is that any significance and why did it come about?

SPEAKER_00 4:12

Yeah. Okay, so the dates of the event was uh July 29th and 30th, I believe, or 30th and 31st. Ugh, I don't know. I'm getting that messed up.

SPEAKER_01 4:24

30 and 31st.

SPEAKER_00 4:25

30th and 31st, yeah, you're right. People were arriving in on the 29th, and then the event was the next two days. Uh, it was the brainstorm of Karen Raneri and uh Barb Collentine, the two that organized, and uh it came from the fans. Yeah. Yeah, they started they started working on it well before a year. You know, I want to say um maybe even two years ahead of time. Karen Renneri, I think, got the ball rolling, but Barb was with her on it uh for the whole ride.

SPEAKER_04 4:57

Wow.

SPEAKER_00 4:58

Yeah, so Karen Raneri and Barb Collentine were the uh two spearheaders of this whole event, and they were well over a year working on this, I'm pretty sure. They were so professional, they were so dedicated that their whole life was putting this together. And the mayor, uh Mayor Susan McCartney, she got on board, and you know, because of her, the whole town embraced the whole project, and it was just extraordinary. I mean, I don't even know where to begin. You guys ask the question, and I'll because I'll probably just keep talking and not shut up.

SPEAKER_02 5:35

Well, you that's what we love about you. Start at the beginning, like you know, take us through that day. Like, I saw all kinds of videos. You were in a special car, you got to ride with like what I call the VIPs. I mean, take us the motorcade. Yeah, yes.

Night-Before Welcome And Fans

Who Is Henry Diltz

SPEAKER_00 5:54

Okay, so what was interesting about it is that it was billed as a two-day event, but really it was there was more to it than that. Uh, everybody, I don't want to say everybody arrived at the same time, but many, many people arrived the night before. And the night before was kind of getting settled into the hotel room, and uh Mayor McCartney was there to welcome everybody, and the town historian who knew a lot about uh David was there and spoke a little bit. Fans got together, they came from all over the world. You know, it was just it was a real fun. Yeah, Netherlands, yeah, and uh, you know, it was just a very social evening, everybody having a good time. Henry was there. Henry was there for the whole thing, too, every every single day. So he was there, and um, it was you know, it was a real energy starter that night.

SPEAKER_02 6:43

Hey, John, real, real quick, I hate doing this, but we may have a listener or two who who does not know who Henry Dilt says, maybe we can just say real quick who he is.

Motorcade To Colgate Field

The Partridge Bus And Setup

SPEAKER_00 6:55

Yeah, let's yes, we can. Henry Diltz is a legendary rock and roll photographer, probably the uh most prominent rock and roll photographer of that era. He was the only photographer who shot the construction of Woodstock leading into Woodstock. I would then he was there. Were you there? No kidding. I was he was uh there to shoot, you know, all the artists and yeah, he um, you know, and he uh he's still working today. Uh this guy never stops. He shot everybody from Janice Joplin to uh Jimi Hendrix, the doors, all the way forward to Atlanta. Yeah, yeah, just everybody. Uh I think he shot the goo goo dolls just last year. So he keeps yeah, he keeps on going, man. He's just a non-stop photographer machine. Uh so that's a little bit there about Henry. And of course he shot David, not literally, but he was uh Right, and yeah, and he shot him uh just more than anybody. He they were great friends, they became great friends from day one. Uh, and he traveled the world with them and really captured uh not just a bunch of pictures, but you know, uh almost like a lifetime story in pictures. And uh, you know, they they were close all the way through, but yeah, that's that's a little bit about Henry Diltz there. Yes. So he was there uh from beginning to end. He came in on the first night. Then the next day was the celebration down at Colgate Field where David played Little League when he was a kid. And you know, I'll tell you, I was I knew, you know, what the agenda was for the weekend, but you just don't know what this experience is gonna be until you're there. And it was very, very hot. Let me preface it with that. Oh no, the weather was in that stretch where it was like in it was so hot. I think it was in the 90s. No, it was end of July, correct? So hot. Yeah, end of July, going right into August, yeah. And uh, but the town was really prepared, and um Bo and Katie both arrived into the mayor's office about an hour prior to the event that started at Colgate. And so I was there for that, Henry was there for that. I did some interviews with them, and we did an article for Remind magazine that I wrote. And um, then after that, it was a motorcade. You saw that going down the road. It was quite a spectacle. I mean, it was just something else to be part of that motorcade. It was just, you know, one again, another one of those moments where you pinch yourself and go, Is this really real? That you know, that I'm part of this, all this is happening. And so we we get down there to the ball field, and they're they've got chairs set up on the field, and then at the back of the field is this giant partridge family bus that you could pose behind and yeah, did you see that? Yes, one of the organizers that was constructed by one of the organizers. Yeah, Barb Callantine had done that, and I think that she had that ship. She had used it once before, and uh since then has moved to Florida, and I think she had that thing shipped from Florida up there for that.

SPEAKER_04 10:12

That's pretty cool.

The Anthem Moment That Broke Us

Church Visit And Street Sign

SPEAKER_00 10:13

So it was so cool. It was the at the end of the ball field event, you know, people were going back there and taking their pictures behind the bus. And but you know, so this day, this particular day, and for me, this one moment was, and I I I have to think that those who were there will probably agree with me on this. It was the most powerful moment of them all. So what happens is Bo and Katie are about to come up and speak. The organizers, the mayor are speaking to all of us, you know, kind of telling us what's gonna happen and who's gonna speak and thanking people. And what no one knew was coming, at least I know I sure didn't, was that they asked us to stand for the Pledge of Allegiance. I think it was a Pledge of Allegiance. So we stand for the Pledge of Allegiance, and I, you know, I can't remember if it was the Pledge of Allegiance, but we stood, and I just remember all of a sudden, out of this booming speaker comes David singing the Star Spangled Banner. And I want to tell you, I want to tell you, there was not a dry eye. Tears, yeah. It was so powerful. I mean, I couldn't I couldn't hold it back. I I don't think anybody else, I didn't take shades with me. A lot of people had shades on, so you know that they were hiding their tears, but man, it was powerful. And then it was like he was there. Oh, in a big way. I mean, it was just such a I just for somebody who's you know, my main focus for me with David is his music. I his music, it just that book. Yeah, you know, it's all about the music for me. It always was all about the music for me. And so when I heard that voice coming through, I just I thought man, I just couldn't hold that one together. And then it was followed up with God bless America. So the tears just kept pouring, you know, it was just it was amazing, it was so amazing. And then I'm thinking, you know, am I the only fool who is uh falling apart here? And then the next thing, the very next thing is Bo and Katie have to come up there to speak. And let me tell you, they were they were so choked up, they were so touched and moved by what was going on, they were so genuine and so grateful. You know, it I don't think anybody, even including them, really knew what the experience was gonna be until we experienced it. And it was just, yeah, I I don't have words to describe how powerful that moment was. So that happened, and then after everybody was so hot, but the town was really prepared. They had um, you know, they had fire trucks there, and you know, things were ready in case. Last police cars I saw.

SPEAKER_02 13:09

Right. Yeah, well, yeah, the the cooling with water and the fire trucks, you know, and coffee was so hot. They had all that. Yeah.

Highlawn Celebration And Dancing

SPEAKER_00 13:17

Yeah, they had all that, and um, they were ready. But I have to say, you know, the emotion of that moment uh I think was the peak of emotion, probably for everybody. I shouldn't speak for everybody, but certainly it was for me. And then after that, uh you could literally walk down the street, and they moved us down the street to the church where he went to. And there was a prayer. Uh yeah, there was a prayer uh conducted by the priest at the church. I think it was an episcopal church. I'm afraid to say these things in case I'm wrong, but I think it was. And then uh the street sign was very close by there, and people were taking pictures with the street sign by the street sign. The house was just walking distance from there, and Bo and Katie uh were along for all of this and posed at the house and posed at the sign and you know, greeted everybody, talked to everybody. Uh it was just it was truly amazing, just the whole thing. And then after that, I think there was a break and for lunch or something, and and then we got together at people had bought tickets for the big indoors part of the celebration at drawing a blank now. I think the highland? Uh the high lawn. The high lawn. Yeah, the high lawn. Uh, and it was a it was a beautiful, beautiful place. Obviously, a lot of wedding receptions go on there. Um, it was a building that sort of stood alone out uh over with a view that was incredible out the windows and even from the parking lot.

SPEAKER_04 14:45

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 14:46

And so we sat up there. I had a table there, Henry Dilt had his table there. Yeah, I spoke there. And then in the evening, um, it was a band who were ri they were really good. And I you know, people dancing. Henry was up dancing the whole time. Really? Well, you dancing. Dancing. Oh my god, Henry was up there.

SPEAKER_02 15:06

Did you did you bust the move? Did you get out there and dance a little bit?

SPEAKER_00 15:11

Oh, yeah, I was out there giving at the groove. Let me tell you. It was fun. Yeah, we were everyone was all partridge family and David Cassidy music.

SPEAKER_01 15:20

I would expect that, but yeah, had to ask.

SPEAKER_00 15:23

Yeah. And the band was uh doing tribute music, singing the songs, did a really great job. And uh and and then Henry, I I don't know if you're aware of this, but before he became a photographer, he was in a band called the MFQ. Right? Yeah, he played the band show and he sang. Modern folk quartet was his was his band, and they had almost had a hit that just it just never got released. Well, that's its own side story, I guess. But anyway, he got up there and he sang it. And uh people were just eating that up. It was so much fun. I just a lot of laughter and a lot of fun and people from all over the world dancing and stuff. And then there was tables where you know you could purchase things that helped, I think it all helped undercut the cost of the event and supported charities. You had like the I think I love you foundation was there selling stuff to support the animal charity, and yeah, there was it was just beautiful.

SPEAKER_02 16:20

There was everything great job of just bringing that whole thing together. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 16:26

Oh, yeah, just very professionally handled too. Uh the whole thing, like uh from top to bottom, extremely professional with just enough fun flair.

SPEAKER_04 16:36

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 16:37

Those those ladies really knew what they were doing. And um, so yeah, that was, you know, that was kind of the whole first day. And then um the next day was day two, and that started out with a bus tour around West Orange, uh, which I didn't go on. Um, they had really packed full buses, and um I I I was tired, so I didn't go. And uh, but I guess it was uh a lot of fun. You know, they went around to a lot of the stops that had to do with David growing up and people were taking pictures, but the heat also, you know, was really difficult. Yeah, people were exhausted from the heat outside.

SPEAKER_06 17:19

It sounds hot though. Um the Holy Trinity Church where David used to sing as a child that you guys went to, he sang there, I guess, in a junior choir, and that's where he felt like his innocence or his roots, you know, began, and that's where he was able to learn that he really had that talent. Did he talk to you about that before about being there and what it was like?

SPEAKER_00 17:41

No, we never no, we never talked about that. Um, but you're right about that. He was he he tributes it to his grandmother who religiously went to church and he went to church with her. Um but that was not something that I talked about with him when he was still around.

SPEAKER_06 17:57

Oh, okay. But it's interesting. And then this thing with that with Henry Dilt and then you becoming lifelong friends with David, but then also Henry Dilt the same way, and now you two putting a book together. It's just amazing.

SPEAKER_00 18:12

Well, I know it is it is amazing and um full circle and unbelievable. I I just every day of my life I'm grateful for it. I never take it for granted. Uh, and if I do, you know, I want somebody to smack me upside the head because it's um, don't tell me that I'm telling you, it's it is just amazing what has happened, and I'm just so proud to be able to speak to the legacy of David Cassidy. I'm so proud to do that. And anytime anyone asks me to do that, the answer is always yes, yes, yes, yes, because he deserves that. I I say it over and over, I probably sound like a broken record, but he's underrated, way underrated, and I think people need to put those records on, or CDs or tapes, or Spotify, or whatever it is you have, and listen to that voice, and then I dare you to argue with me, you know. He has a voice like no other, and it it just never gets showcased. Yeah, it makes you happy, and there's depths to it, there's complexity to it. He has a range, you know. This guy did Broadway in Vegas and you know, blew people away with his performances. So yeah.

Family Connections And Tributes

SPEAKER_02 19:41

And my last thing is on videos to comment. Yeah, they start the record for the uh a young audience, but this is this man's two talents. Uh he was underrated, way underrated.

SPEAKER_00 20:25

Way underrated. Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_02 20:27

And nobody nobody could uh deny it.

SPEAKER_00 20:31

No, nobody can. You're right. I was with Shirley Jones one time in a casual setting in which we were watching videos of performances of David and some of her. And when we pulled up that particular one you're talking about, she put her hand to her eye to wipe away the tears. Yeah, it was a very, very touching moment, something that I'll always remember. Um, but yeah, she was uh definitely very touched by that. It is so moving if you watch that performance.

SPEAKER_01 21:04

A lot of fans are moved by that.

SPEAKER_00 21:05

Yeah, it's very, very moving. Yes.

SPEAKER_02 21:08

To see it live on stage. I didn't see it with John, but Singh and I saw the production and it's just it's moving. It's every night he brought the same. And it was beautiful. But I don't want to get you too far off your next day at the event. The tour. The tour.

SPEAKER_00 21:30

You were gonna tell us about it. Oh, the tour. Okay, so where did we leave off? I think uh the second day. The second day was the bus tour, and then in the afternoon, it was kind of like hangout time at the uh local, I think it was the local VFW. It was a lodge, and we were there uh for the rest of that afternoon and evening, and Henry Dilt gave two separate slideshows and uh stories behind the photos. One of them was, of course, strictly on David and his relationship with David and pictures that he took. The other one was on Woodstock and the people that he shot at Woodstock, and then he had several tables. Yeah, oh, it was great. And he had several tables of uh pictures that were available there for purchase, signed photos. Um they were it was just amazing, the whole thing. And again, there was a DJ and it was more David Cassidy music and more dancing. They moved the bus, uh, the little bus thing inside, and it was more pictures behind the bus. Um, there was a bar, there was oh gosh, and it was right on a street where you know you could walk out if if there wasn't, I don't believe there was food there, but if you wanted something, you could like walk out the door and go right around the corner and get something. It was super convenient. And there were town there were places in the town that was selling uh that were selling merchandise, uh primarily the street sign. If you wanted to buy one of two sizes of the street sign, you could. And that was right there in the town. So then that wrapped up the the second day, and then um on the third day in the morning, uh people were gathering for breakfast in the hotel. And uh while the the planned event stuff was over, I know myself we were having breakfast and we were sitting there chatting with Henry, and he stayed again, like I said, for the whole thing, and all the people, the fans, it was a lot more mingling that went on even at breakfast. And then I'm thinking, you know, okay, so we're gonna get on the road and drive home. I had like a six-hour drive home from there. And um I said, you know, let's go, why don't we go take a peek at some of these other landmarks that that have to do with David that we didn't get to see because we didn't go on the bus tour, and so that's what everybody did. So, you know, it was it wasn't even planned, but you know, we I said, I want to get one of those street signs. So I went to one of the stores that was selling the street sign, and boom, I ran into somebody else there, and and then we went to uh Eagle Rock for the the Indian Reservation. We went there and saw that, and I saw other people hopping out of their car there. And so people were, you know, they were doing what we were doing. They were going out on their own and seeing all these spots um before they left town. But uh that was yeah, that's you know, pretty much it.

SPEAKER_02 24:25

Yeah, I love to go online and find one of those uh merchants who were selling uh uh street sign and order one for our studio here.

SPEAKER_00 24:36

You know what? I gotta say, they are amazing because initially I didn't have one, which I planned on getting one. I just didn't buy one beforehand, but um I planned on getting one. Only so I didn't I guess you know, I probably wasn't paying attention. It's my fault. But they are the street sign. They are metal, they are you know, they it's not some cheap thing. It's they're really nice.

SPEAKER_02 25:00

Oh, I thought it would be like a plastic replica thing, or a bumper sticker.

SPEAKER_00 25:05

No, it's a metal street sign.

SPEAKER_01 25:08

Yeah, we'll get one of those.

SPEAKER_00 25:09

You could buy a miniature version of it. There was a small version of it, or you could get the actual size. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 25:16

That's fun. That is kind of so yeah, it was fun.

SPEAKER_00 25:19

The whole thing just was such a blast and so touching. All of these emotions all over the place from top to bottom. I think the coolest thing about it was the commonality that we all have, and then that group of people who we share this commonality with were all together.

SPEAKER_04 25:43

Yes.

The Photo Book: Once Upon A Picture

SPEAKER_00 25:44

And it was it created an atmosphere that I can't quite describe. When you walk through the town where David grew up, on the streets he grew up, you can feel something that is different. And I finally I understand you know, I'm not um an Elvis fan, and I've never been to Graceland or any of that, but I get it now. Uh I told uh Barb and Kerr and the organizers that, you know, this is to me, uh, West Orange is David's Graceland. And I can see it. I can I get it. I get why fans get together.

SPEAKER_02 26:20

I was just gonna liken it to going to Graceland, and that's the same thing.

SPEAKER_00 26:27

You were reading my mind because I I thought that ever since. That was one of the moments in my mind that was enlightening to me as part of the experience that I hadn't thought about before I got there. I mean, the most moving moment was certainly at the ball field with Katie and Bo and that voice booming through that speaker. But uh to me, the most uh revelatory or enlightening moment that I personally experienced was this feeling of, you know, we all of us here who have this common thing, yeah, that we're here together in a place that David loved and grew up and we're walking down the streets, and it it's just there was something about that.

SPEAKER_02 27:08

One big happy family.

SPEAKER_01 27:09

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 27:10

And speaking of family, there was uh a picture of you. Was this the first time you met David's Uncle Joe? There was a picture of you standing right next to him, I think, or maybe there was another person there and you and him.

SPEAKER_00 27:26

Yeah, so I had met there were three cousins there, or two cousins and the Uncle Joe. The relative chain is hard to explain. I'm gonna skip by that one because it's sort of complicated. But uh, I had met Kelly before and spent some time with her. I had not met Douglas or Uncle Joe, and uh that was the first time. So those pictures you saw, yeah, that was the first time that I met them.

SPEAKER_02 27:51

Okay, cool.

SPEAKER_00 27:53

Both very yeah, very nice. And you know, they were um I just love that they were there. I thought it was just great that they showed up for this. It was just so touching to see his family.

Henry Meets David And Their Bond

SPEAKER_02 28:04

Just for reference, Joe is Jack's brother.

SPEAKER_00 28:07

Okay, no. No, okay, so now you're no now you're you're forcing me into the complications. Never mind.

SPEAKER_02 28:17

Don't even go to I'm gonna I'm gonna attempt it.

SPEAKER_00 28:22

You know what? And all your fans, they'll believe me, they'll correct me if I'm wrong here, which I probably will be. But no, he was. I'm gonna try to get this right. Yes, Jack had a brother named Joe. Um, I believe that this was his cousin, Joe, and uh Kelly is uh his cousin's daughter, so Kelly is a cousin twice removed, or a second cousin, if you will.

SPEAKER_04 28:50

Right. Okay, that makes sense.

SPEAKER_00 28:52

I think that's how it goes. And if I'm wrong, you'll get the Facebook post.

SPEAKER_02 28:57

Well, you know, Johnny, thank you for trying. We'll see how it goes. We may that may make the cutting room floor. We'll see how it goes.

SPEAKER_00 29:08

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, I understand that one.

SPEAKER_01 29:10

Yeah, and so we know who went there, but for the ones that couldn't make it with the family or close friends, relatives, you had a special video at the dinner, I understand.

SPEAKER_00 29:22

Yeah, well, Karen Renari and Barb Collentine put that together. Uh and it was very, yeah, I guess like I missed that in my discussion, but it was very touching. There must have been, oh, I want to say somewhere in the neighborhood of 10 to 15 videos, somewhere like that. Yeah, there was a lot of them. There was um Bruce Kimmel, uh Jan Freeman, who was David Standin. Bruce Kimmel was on the Partridge family a lot and was good friends with David. There was Patrick Cassidy. Sean had written something that Katie read out loud at the ball field. Danny. Sue Schiffrin sent a video, Danny sent a video, Sam Hyman sent a video. I don't know who I might be leaving.

SPEAKER_01 30:01

We were able to see a few online, but we couldn't see all of them. I guess there was some kind of uh video issue they were having.

SPEAKER_00 30:08

Yeah, at the at the Hylon there was some kind of technical problem. I don't know what it was, but they kept trying to fix it and it just wasn't working. So they re-showed the video the next day at yeah, at the at the lodge. Yeah, they replayed it there.

SPEAKER_01 30:24

Not online. I haven't seen it online like everybody's.

SPEAKER_00 30:26

Oh, maybe they haven't released it yet.

SPEAKER_01 30:29

Okay, because that's what I was going to do.

SPEAKER_00 30:31

Yeah, it was nice. It was very nice.

SPEAKER_01 30:34

Sean just recently posted a picture of him at the sign. He went to go visit the David Kennedy. Yes.

SPEAKER_00 30:42

That's so great. I saw that. Yeah, that's wonderful.

SPEAKER_02 30:45

On uh one of his stops of his tour here and it's enough to call. Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 30:51

No, that was awesome. Sean planned this tour, so he would tour two weeks, be off two weeks, and kind of do some sightseeing in between. So I'm glad he was able to stop and visit that landmark. I'm glad he has the energy and the health.

SPEAKER_06 31:02

But I'm so excited to ask you about your picture book.

SPEAKER_00 31:05

Well, okay, here we go. It's common. Um it's it's uh it's been a ton of work, uh, all of it's fun, really. You know, here I am uh handling pictures of David Cassidy. I mean, what could be more fun than that? It's going to be it's called Once Upon a Picture, David Cassidy Once Upon a Picture, featuring the Henry Diltz collection. And it's it's a book of of his unreleased photos and some that have been seen, but you know, some have not been released. It's gonna include images directly from his personal journals, his handwritten personal journal notes will be there. We've got a couple of dozen, at least a couple of dozen, uh interviews with tribute comments and stories of behind the pictures and of David and his relationship with Henry. All kinds of things like that in it. And it's you know, it's it's intended for the end of the year. I don't know if that's gonna mean pre-sales or if it's going to mean there's no release date yet set. So I don't know if it'll be, you know, that the pre-sales are s will start by then or how that's all gonna pan out yet. But that is the goal.

SPEAKER_06 32:17

Well, that's exciting because you know, like with Henry Joseph's pictures, he was known as, you know, the photographer that in his work he would do pictures where they were relaxed and they were intimate and they were warm and they weren't opposed.

SPEAKER_00 32:33

So he was pictures that we're gonna do. He had oh yeah, and he had so much access and they became such great friends that really he I I think, you know, Henry has captured David better than anyone else ever could because of their relationship, you know. They they weren't just friends because he was there all the time, they were friends because they they were similar in the ways that they thought about life. And you know, it's just you know how that is, you know, when you make friends like you have these sometimes you get lucky enough to have these people that it's like an instant connection, it's like a kindred spirit, and they had that.

SPEAKER_06 33:15

Yeah, that happens.

SPEAKER_00 33:16

So I think that's reflected all the way through. And the book is put together chronologically, which was very challenging to do, but it tells the way I like to describe it, and this is where the title came from, Once Upon a Picture, is that the pictures tell a story, and then Henry is also such a great storyteller about the stories behind the pictures. So you have sort of a double, a double way of looking at a story. You've got the story of the pictures and then the words to go with it. So that's you know, that's kind of how it's all laid out, and it's gonna be amazing. It's full color all the way through hardback.

SPEAKER_02 33:53

Wow, it'll be an interesting reading. We cannot wait to get our hands on that one.

SPEAKER_00 34:00

I love it, that's great. Yeah, I'm excited. I think there'll be a deluxe edition with uh signed photo to go with it, and I think those are gonna be limited in number, and then there will be the regular edition, but it's um it's gonna be a very high-end, nice, well-produced book. You know, it's definitely it's gonna be done with so much love, let me tell you.

SPEAKER_01 34:26

Yeah, and Henry Dilt, if you go back to the beginning, I think he mentioned that he was working for a magazine and they asked him to go to the Partridge family set one day just to take some pictures of them, and this is how he got involved with David.

SPEAKER_00 34:39

Yeah, that's yeah, that's pretty true. Uh, he was he worked for the monkeys. He was on the set of the monkeys, and he had shot that and uh did a lot of stuff for Tiger Beat, and then he was actually on a plane, I believe, flying home. He had been staying with Steven Stills over in England, and when he got home, he was re well, when he was on the plane, he was reading something about this new show called The Partridge Family, and as soon as he gets home, he gets a call from I think it was Ralph Banner, who worked for Tiger Beat, and said, Hey, you know, would you like to go down and shoot shoot some pictures on the set of the Partridge Family? It's this new show. And he thought, what a coincidence, you know. I was just reading about this show, and he gets this call, and the first day he was down there, um, David walked right up to him and introduced himself, and boom, they started talking. And as the music, especially, there was a great bond there because Henry had been a musician. He was already becoming famous for shooting these very prominent rock and roll figures, and you know, David aspired all that. Yeah, Woodstock, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 35:44

And one of my favorite pictures that Henry did take of David was in Hawaii on the beach with his Puka Shell necklace. That's one of my favorites. Yep. Me too, picture that. Okay, I've seen that.

SPEAKER_00 35:54

That's gonna be in the book. Yeah, that's a great shot.

SPEAKER_02 35:57

Johnny, this was so much fun. You always, always, always, never, ever disappoint. And we love having thank you all. Don't think you're gonna there's gonna be a four-time appearance because that book will be coming, and we have to talk about it.

SPEAKER_00 36:14

Well, I love it. Anytime you guys want to do something, you just let me know, and I'm all in. And we need to keep doing things like this to keep uh the legacy alive and remind people of David.

SPEAKER_01 36:25

And come on, get happy.

SPEAKER_00 36:27

Come on, get happy, yes.

SPEAKER_02 36:29

Thank you so much, John, and thanks for spending time with us today.

SPEAKER_00 36:33

Oh, thanks for having me. It's my pleasure. Thank you for having me.

SPEAKER_03 36:38

Can you see what's so crowded at the twilight? And bright.

SPEAKER_05 38:39

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