C'mon, Get Happy: Fear and Loathing on the Partridge Family Bus

C'mon, Get Happy: Fear and Loathing on the Partridge Family Bus

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A teen idol and the highest paid solo performer of the 1970s tells of his experiences in the groupie-stalked role of Keith Partridge, from working with his family to his tempestuous relationships with his co-actors.

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TMI

Reviewed by Jenny J. Richter, 2010-02-25

Well, this was interesting. I never believed David was the sweet innocent thing he played on the show, but Yikes! He has a freakish obsession with his penis. Who cares how big it is??? And how crass he is to brag about it, and all the girls he screwed. Evidently Susan Dey had the bad taste to sleep with him, only for him to dis her as not slutty enough. Good lord David, learn some manners! How sad that so many girls were silly enough to have sex with him.

Book Availability Update and a Factoid About Jack Cassidy

Reviewed by Doctor Joey, 2009-07-27

As a professor of English at a major university, I'm listed in just about every publisher's database -- because we now have publishing conglomerates that devoured dozens of publishers in one gulp! (And all of these conglomerates have a division that publishes college textbooks, especially English literature anthologies and writer's handbooks.) I called the "800" number provided by a previous reviewer and learned that this publisher (and, atypically I couldn't find the publisher anywhere within the Amazon listing) was politely informed that whichever of the dozen publishing companies within the group published the book no longer has the rights to it; it officially is out of print. It would have been great if I were able learn which publisher does have the rights to it, but that information is not available. I notice some comments about Jack Cassidy. I have read in several well-documented and meticulously researched sources that Jack Cassidy was, at the very least, bisexual (lots of gay men have wives and kids) and he was extremely sadistic in his sexual relationship with composer Cole Porter, who was an invalid (a paraplegic) He taunted Porter and made him beg to perform oral sex on him and then crawl from one side of the room to the other in order to do so. Although I am not an expert on American Musical Theatre, my area of expertise is Modern and Contemporary Drama (1879-present) and it's not unusual for us to read about related areas in any case. Nothing I've ever read about Cole Porter, and there has been a lot written about his gayness (including Jack Kerouac's carrying him across a slippery Manhattan street while Kerouac was a Columbia University student), but nothing to indicate he was into the S&M scene. I've taught paraplegic students and I cannot imagine anything crueler. The time frames synch, too. Porter was 36 years Cassidy's senior and Cassidy lied about his age to get a job in the chorus at only 14. I've seen this relationship described as "casting couch" -- but the documented anecdotes clearly place Cassidy as an adult, not as a teen. Now, he never was a major star -- not in the theatre, despite his protestations (and I honestly have the credentials to make this statement without fear of contradiction -- so maybe the "casting couch" was his permanent home. Would I want someone like that as a father? Certainly not. Who would? Ironically, I read a post about Cassidy's having accused David of "selling out" -- but, unless I'm very, very wrong, I don't think he ever had to have sex with anyone he didn't want to in order to land or keep a job...and he was WAY better looking than his Dad in his 20s!

New Book is Better

Reviewed by T. Chambers, 2009-03-22

If you are interested in the constant whining of this guy, who is now a lounge lizard in Vegas and would be selling shoes in Fresno if not for the Partridge Family, try his more recent autobiography, published in England, "COULD IT BE FOREVER." It's more forthcoming and a little less self-serving than this title, and it updates his father's death and his relationship with his half-brothers.

HOT, Steamy, & Sexy--just like David Cassidy!

Reviewed by Suzie Phillips, 2009-01-06

ASIN:0446395315 C'mon, Get Happy: Fear and Loathing on the Partridge Family Bus]] This book will tell you in David's own words, some of the things he went through in his life. First as a child, unhappy that his father divorced his mother and left them both behind. Then as a teen idol; something he didn't want. If you had an misconception that David Cassidy was the same as the goody-two-shoes Keith Partridge, this book will blow that out of the water!

The wild life of T.V's Keith Partridge

Reviewed by Courtney Rabideau, 2007-06-08

I am a Partridge Family fan, so when I heard that David Cassidy wrote a book about his experiences being Keith Partridge I wanted to read about it.

David Cassidy is very candid about his life. he starts off talking about his childhood as the son of Jack Cassidy and Evelyn Ward. Then for the majority of the book he goes into the teen/adult years of his life spend having sex with MANY woman and doing alot of drugs. I was not happy because by the title I thought he would spend more time talking about the Partridge Family, but hwe did not. It was an interesting book though, and if you want to know more about David Cassidy this book is for you