Magic Time for His Fans / Teen Idol Cassidy Showed His Face 
David Cassidy the way I know him.
By Jimmi Seiter
Along that golden beach
by Mark Wyckoff
When Janet Met David
by Janet Fife-Yeomans
Message to the World
by Dann Dulin, A & U Magazine
December 1999
Magic Time for His Fans
By Jim Salamanis
September, 2003
"Collectormania"
The Collectors’ Trading Magazine
I’m a huge fan of David Cassidy and a huge Cassidy and Partridge Family fan and collector so I’m delighted I was given the opportunity to write this article for Collectormania as I wanted to take people back in time ... a magic time in their life.
Unfortunately, I was too young then to have seen him in concert, although as a kid I loved watching the Partridge Family and remember my cousins, who loved David, had his posters all over their walls.
My
passion started off in the early '80s when my cousin found David’s
Cherish LP at a used record store. As soon as I heard the LP, I
just loved his breathy vocals. From then on, I started frequenting secondhand
record stores, going to record fairs and trying to find anything and everything
on this bell-bottomed trousers, shaggy-haired teen idol.
I would scour just about every secondhand store and ask just about everyone if they had anything left from their collections. In short, I became obsessed. I had no idea just how many recordings David had - he released a total of 24 LPs to this day. From finding some old teen magazine, a few scrapbooks, then some memorabilia like the Partridge Family game and David Cassidy jigsaw puzzle, I was hooked!
I needed to buy more; I just couldn’t get enough. It was cheap enough back then in the early ‘80s, although getting harder to find today and all you have to do is log on to eBay to see just how much David Cassidy and the Partridge Family memorabilia is worth.
My most prized possessions in my collection are the Remco Partridge Family toy bus, the Laurie Partridge doll, 15 official Tiger Beat Official Partridge Family magazines, the official English David Cassidy monthlies, my scrapbooks and a David beach towel. But I could go on and on ...
I have met David a few times in the past
few years as I went to Las Vegas twice and saw him in the $50 million
production of EFX which was the No. 1 show for two years running. I
also went and saw him Live at the Copa, a show he did with Sheena
Easton.
It took David 28 years to come back to Australia but it was worth the wait. We fans had waited so long we had almost given up hope. David also called me twice in the past few years, which has been a huge thrill.
I am always looking for items to add to my ever-growing collection and some I’m still after are the Partridge Family Record Cabinet, Partridge Family wooden toy bus from NZ, David Cassidy Australasian Tour Poster 1974, the PF Greatest Hits LP from New Zealand (item code BAR 001 released in 1977), concert footage from the early ‘70s from anywhere in the world, any newspaper articles on his 1974 Australian tour (looking for articles from Sydney, Perth, Melbourne, Adelaide, Brisbane, NZ and scrapbooks.
Teen Idol Cassidy Showed His Face
From 1970 to 1975, David Cassidy redefined the words ‘teen idol’. He was the greatest teen idol and had a bigger fan club in those days than the Beatles and Elvis Presley put together.
Cassidy was a household name as early as 1971 in Australia and New Zealand. The Partridge Family TV show debuted in November 1970 in Australia and the next month his song I Think I Love You became No. 1, a position it held for 13 weeks.
David Cassidy was the No. 1 teen idol in America by 1972 and by 1973 was considered the world’s No. 1 pop/teen idol. He was loved by millions of fans throughout the world and the mere mention of his name caused such hysteria that girls would literally pull their hair out. It was like Beatlemania all over again!
Cassidy’s face graced the covers of every imagineable teen
and pop magazine the world over. The merchandising was even bigger,
each country releasing their 
own
product. In America alone, more than 200 pieces of memorabilia came
out from David Cassidy and Partridge Family including lunchboxes, posters,
bubblegum cards, jigsaw puzzles, songbooks, paper dolls, a Laurie
Partridge doll, a Patti Partridge doll, clothing line from Kate Greenaway,
badges, jewellery, toy guitars, fan club kits, comic books, record
cabinet... the list went on.
The most elusive and sought-after piece of memorabilia is the Remco Partridge Family toy bus. Retailing at $US8.95 in 1973, it is today worth $US1500 boxed. Loose, it’s valued at between $US500 - $800.
David and the Partridge Family had so many hit singles in Australia and New Zealand and the world. His song Cherish went straight to No. 1 here and others which were in our top 10 at the time included Could It Be Forever, How Can I Be Sure (a No. 1 hit in the UK), Rock Me Baby, which was also a hit for John Farnham at the same time, Daydreamer, If I Didn’t Care and Please Please Me.
As for the Partridge Family, they also laid some golden eggs with such hits as I Woke Up Loving You This Morning, I’ll Meet You Halfway, It’s One Of Those Nights (yes love) and Looking Through The Eyes of Love.
Cassidy’s Australian tour was announced in Go Set Magazine in November 1973, Pre-tour, there was much publicity and promotion for the star and newspapers around the country had contests. And Channel 7’s Jet Set hostess Trudy Jaworski toured Melbourne in the station’s gaily coloured Partridge Family Bus.
Cassidy’s tour of New Zealand and Australia was considered ‘World War III’ because there was so many casualties around Australia, many girls collapsing due to the excitement and the hot weather. Melbourne was his biggest venue, playing at the MCG before 65,000 fans. He was the first person to have played the ‘G’.
The Downunder David Cassidy and Fans of David Cassidy (Australia) Fansite thank Jim Salamanis for the priviledge of putting up this article. Also a special thanks to Sue Stephens from Brisbane, for providing the scans.