I'll Meet You Halfway

Written By - Wes Farrell and Gerry Goffin.

Will there come a day you and I can say

We can finally see each other?

Will there come a time we can find the time

To reach out for one another?

We've been travelin' in circles such a long, long time

Tryin' to say hello, hello!

And we can just let it ride, but you're someone that I'd

Like to get to know

Chorus:

I'll meet you halfway, that's better than no way

There must be some way to get it together

And if there's some way, I know that some day

We just might work it out forever

Will there come a day (Will there come a day)

You and I can say (You and I can say)

We can finally see each other?

Will there come a time (Will there come a time)

We can find the time (We can find the time)

To reach out for one another?

I'll meet you halfway, that's better than no way

Repeat and fade

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As David explains in the following excerpt from the book “C’mon Get Happy…Fear and Loathing on the Partridge Family Bus” by David Cassidy & Chip Deffaa, his voice on the first two of The Partridge Family records, his voice was altered.

“Wes had some problem with the way I naturally sounded. He had me double-track vocals (the way Neil Sedaka had so often done) to give my voice added pop-ness. And by altering the tape speed, he was able to raise the pitch of my voice a half-tone above what it actually was, so that on records I sounded a little younger, lighter than in real life.”

The following two recordings highlight this. The first recording is a small part of the original recording from 1971 LP “Up To Date”. The second recording has been provided by John Gomolka who altered the original track to better reflect David’s true voice.

"I´ll Meet You Halfway" - Part of original recording

"I´ll Meet You Halfway" - altered to reflect David’s true voice

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On: Up To Date, At Home With Their Greatest Hits, Gold Disc, The Partridge Family Greatest Hits, David Cassidy and The Partridge Family: The Definitive Collection, David Cassidy's Partridge Family Favorites, The World of the Partridge Family, Then And Now, Daydreamer, David Cassidy His Greatest Hits - Live Volume One