Editing Cassidy Live!

{{Infobox album|
| name       = Cassidy Live!
| type       = live
| artist     = [[David Cassidy]]
| cover      = Cassidy Live.jpg
| alt        =
| released   = 1974
| recorded   = 1974
| venue      =
| studio     =
| genre      = [[Rock music|Rock]]
| length     = 46:33
| label      = [[Bell Records (1950s-70s)|Bell]]
| producer   = [[David Cassidy]], Barry Ainsworth
| prev_title = [[Dreams Are Nuthin' More Than Wishes]]
| prev_year  = 1973
| next_title = [[Greatest Hits (David Cassidy album)|Greatest Hits]]
| next_year  = 1974
}}
{{Album ratings
|rev1 = ''[[Džuboks]]''
|rev1score =unfavorable<ref name="dzuboks">{{cite journal|title=David Cassidy - Cassidy Live!|journal=Džuboks|publisher=Dečje novine|location=Gornji Milanovac|issue=3 (second series)|page=22|language=sr}}</ref>
}}
{{Album ratings
| rev1 =[[Allmusic]]
| rev1Score = {{Rating|3|5}}<ref name="AM">{{cite web |first=Dave |last=Thompson |title=''Cassidy Live!'' > Review |url={{Allmusic |class=album |id= mw0000837561 |pure_url=yes}} |publisher=[[Allmusic]] |access-date=July 28, 2013}}</ref>
}}

'''''Cassidy Live!''''' was [[David Cassidy]]'s fourth solo album and final album released on [[Bell Records]]. It was released in 1974 and was recorded live in Britain. It was produced by Cassidy and Barry Ainsworth on [[Bell Records]]. The recording captures some of the mass hysteria that surrounded Cassidy's live performances at that time. The album peaked at #9 on the UK album charts.<ref name="dzuboks" /> 

"[[Please Please Me (song)|Please Please Me]]" was released as single from this album in the UK where it reached #16 on the British singles chart. The album failed to have much of an impact in the U.S. partially due to [[Bell Records]]' mid-1970s slump and that label's scheduled transition into [[Arista Records]] the following year.<ref name="Mike Ragogna">Mike Ragogna, sleeve notes to 2012 CD reissue "Cassidy Live!", catalog no. RGM-0086 / Sony 88735 44778 2</ref>

==Reception==
Writing for [[Allmusic]], critic Dave Thompson wrote, "Recorded live on his 1974 world tour, at the height (and, though nobody knew it, in the final days) of Cassidy-mania, Cassidy Live is a peculiar document, on the one hand standing as an indication of just how fierce the hysteria around the lad was, but, on the other, living proof of what a sensational showman he was." Thompson summed up his review by saying, "Rock history has sidelined Cassidy with a finality that seems almost personal, shovelling him up a teen idol side street from which the only escape was retirement and resignation. Cassidy Live, however, was recorded while he still thought he had a chance of advancing -- and few period live albums come even close to capturing its excitement."<ref name="AM" />

==Track listing==
# "It's Preying On My Mind" ([[David Cassidy]], [[Kim Carnes]], Dave Ellingson) – 4:05<br>
# "Some Kind of a Summer" (Dave Ellingson) – 3:34<br>
# "[[Breaking Up Is Hard to Do (song)|Breaking Up Is Hard To Do]]" ([[Neil Sedaka]], [[Howard Greenfield]]) – 3:12<br>
# "Bali Ha'i / Mae" ([[Oscar Hammerstein II]], [[Richard Rodgers]] / Gary Montgomery) – 3:52<br>
# "I Am a Clown" ([[Tony Romeo]]) – 3:20<br>
# "Delta Lady" ([[Leon Russell]]) – 4:04<br>
# "[[Please Please Me (song)|Please Please Me]]" ([[John Lennon]], [[Paul McCartney]]) – 2:02<br>
# "Daydreamer" (Terry Dempsey) – 2:08<br>
# "[[How Can I Be Sure]]" ([[Felix Cavaliere]], [[Eddie Brigati]]) – 2:54<br>
# "[[For What It's Worth (Buffalo Springfield song)|For What It's Worth]]" ([[Stephen Stills]]) – 5:36<br>
# "[[C.C. Rider Blues]] / Jenny Jenny" ([[Ma Rainey]], [[Enotris Johnson]] / [[Richard Penniman]]) – 4:56<br>
# Rock Medley: – 6:35<br>
## "[[Blue Suede Shoes]]" ([[Carl Perkins]])
##  "[[(We're Gonna) Rock Around The Clock]]" ([[Max C. Freedman]], [[James E. Myers]]) (as Jimmy DeKnight)
## "[[Jailhouse Rock (song)|Jailhouse Rock]]" ([[Jerry Leiber]], [[Mike Stoller]])
## "[[Rock and Roll Music (song)|Rock and Roll Music]]" ([[Chuck Berry]])
##  "Rock Me Baby" (Peggy Clinger, [[Johnny Cymbal]])

==Personnel==
*[[Michael Been]] – Bass and Background Vocals
*[[Richard Delvy]] – Percussion
*[[Henry Diltz]] – Harmonica and Background Vocals
*Gloria Grinel – Background Vocals, Claps, Tambourine
*Steve Ross – Lead Guitar
*Trish Turner –  Background Vocals, Claps, Tambourine

==Production notes==
*Produced by [[David Cassidy]] and Barry Ainsworth
*Engineered by Barry Ainsworth

===2012 Reissue on Compact Disc===

*Reissue Produced by Gordon Anderson and Jim Pierson
*Sony Producer: Rob Santos
*Remastered by Vic Anesini at Battery Studios, NYC

==References==
{{Reflist}}

{{David Cassidy}}

[[Category:David Cassidy albums]]
[[Category:Bell Records albums]]
[[Category:1974 live albums]]