{"id":2642,"date":"2016-02-14T01:17:31","date_gmt":"2016-02-14T01:17:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidcassidy.com\/blog\/?p=2642"},"modified":"2022-02-22T11:50:03","modified_gmt":"2022-02-22T11:50:03","slug":"the-wrecking-crew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidcassidy.com\/blog\/the-wrecking-crew\/","title":{"rendered":"The Wrecking Crew"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I learned so much from John and Tom and all of the singers. In the 70s there were few, if any, who could compare with their talent and singing acumen. As a singer I was na\u00efve and raw when I met them. I learned so much from them. It was an education in background singing and harmonies. I was always enhanced by their remarkable educated talent. I will be eternally grateful for what I learned from them. God Bless you Tom and your brother John and Jackie and all the others who made my life so wonderful. I will never forget you.<br \/>\nDavid<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>David&#8217;s message above was in reply to a message from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/thomas.bahler\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Thomas B\u00e4hler<\/a>, posted&nbsp;by Thomas on his&nbsp;Facebook page:<\/p>\n<p><em>Someone brought this special [The Partridge Family &#8211; The Complete Story] to my attention this morning &#8211; it is a sweet journey down memory lane &#8211; I had no idea that &#8220;I THINK I LOVE YOU&#8221; was the number 1 selling single in 1970 &#8211; beating out The Beatles &#8220;LET IT BE&#8221; &#8211; WTF &#8211; for us it was another gig &#8211; a very pleasant experience working with good friends and making new friends &#8211; loved working with Jackie Ward and Ron Hicklin and my brother John B\u00e4hler &#8211; we sang together almost daily &#8211; David Cassidy is one helluva singer blessed with great talent and commensurate work ethic &#8211; Mike Melvoin &#8211; arranged the tracks, performed by The Wrecking Crew &#8211; my brother John did the majority of our vocal charts and I did the rest &#8211; it was a great experience &#8211; love to all<\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Barry Scott\/Behind The Music: Partridge Family\" width=\"584\" height=\"438\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/byqj9KG75yI?start=154&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I learned so much from John and Tom and all of the singers. In the 70s there were few, if any, who could compare with their talent and singing acumen. As a singer I was na\u00efve and raw when I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidcassidy.com\/blog\/the-wrecking-crew\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67,5],"tags":[162,164,97,171],"class_list":["post-2642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fansite","category-from-david","tag-david-cassidy","tag-fansite","tag-message-to-fans","tag-the-wrecking-crew"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidcassidy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidcassidy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidcassidy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidcassidy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidcassidy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidcassidy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2642\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidcassidy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidcassidy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidcassidy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}