David Cassidy - Higher They Climb the Harder
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Artist: David CassidyEdition: Music CD
Format: Import, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2004-02-24
Music Label: Bmg Int'l
Soundtracks:
- When I'm a Rock 'N' Roll Star
- Be-Bop-A-Lula
- I Write the Songs
- This Could Be the Night
- Darlin'
- Get It Up for Love
- Fix of Your Love
- Massacre at Park Bench (Dialogue)
- Common Thief
- Love in Bloom
- When I'm a Rock 'N' Roll Star (Reprise)
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Free Music Review: Cassidy's Biggest RCA Triumph:Partridge To Peacock
Hit: 5 Stars
After trying to trash his Partridge image publicly on television on Geraldo Rivera and trying to beat his teenybopper audience by playing an emmy nominated role as an undercover cop, this theme carried over into Cassidy's post Partridge RCA contract's first release in 1975 "The Higher They Climb-The Harder They Fall". This semi-autobiographical release done blatantly tongue-in-cheek by Cassidy is probably a standout as far as his career which has successfully outlasted all the negative press by his detractors. In this great installment, Cassidy fuses the then 70s rock fervor with the story of the fall of a teen idol reflecting backwards to the time of idols like Fabian and Gene Vincent (noting the tip-of-the-hat to Gene's "Be Bop A Lula" which Cassidy has a way of outdoing his predicessors with his own fired up versions). The LP/CD's cover, beautifully reproduced here in the Japanese import, shows the front as the rise of a pristine, virginal pop star (in his glaringly white, studded suit, clutching a white guitar in one hand and a "quickly rising star" in the other that is skyrocketing him to fame in the other then to the back side where he has "fallen" or "crashed and burned". This truly symbolized David's feelings on his Partridge fame and image. His urge to escape Teenybopper Land is definitely reflected here in clever jabs such as the skit "Massacre At Park Bench" which is really funny which leads into the equally fitting and bitter "Common Thief" a great tune. The symbolism of using his image as far behind him by overlaying the 50s idol image using musical imagary of the dream...."When I'm a Rock and Roll Star", his flawless rendition of Gene Vincent's "Be Bop A Lula" which eerily sounds remarkably like Vincent's version, the "I Write The Songs" which was stolen away from their former teen idol by Bell/Arista and given to their up-and rising Barry Manilow further promotes this imagery. Next the Fifties infused original tune "This Could Be The Night" croons into another awesome original "Darlin" penned by Beach Boys alumni Brian Wilson and Mike Love for this Cassidy tome. Following through with the fallen idol story comes the beginning of his resurrection with the one ironically "banned-for-sexual-innuendo" self-penned tune "Get It Up For Love" just proving critics have a dirty mind because the lyrics had nothing to do with what they imagined the title meant.....one great line...."Sold for his smile, another fallen star shatters by the wayside...." that about sums it up. The actual tune "Love In Bloom comes right before the end of the opus showing hope in the future and then the tome ends with a reprise of "When I'm A Rock And Roll Star". I must say this is one of David's BEST efforts, well constructed, yet not well received in the US but wildly successful overseas where Cassidy's run lasted longer than here. One could wonder if that is why Cassidy allows his stuff to be released overseas where his fan's did not turn his back on him as opposed to here in the States where his library remains harder to obtain. This is hands-down one of David's greatest achievements and will always be one of my favorite Lps of all time. Maybe it meant more to me because even in 1975, I knew what he was trying to say. I have been a Cassidy fan forever and will continue to be. This CD is definitely worth the high import price and is his finest autobiographical opus to date!
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Full title - The Higher They Climb The Harder They Fall. First time on CD, Japanese 24-bit remastered reissue of the former teen idol's 1975 album, features 11 tracks including a cover of Gene Vincent's 'Be-Bop-A-Lula' & the Beach Boys' 'Darlin'', as well as 1 co-written with Harry Nilsson, 'This Could Be The Night'. RCA. 2003.Pop Music CDs
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