Shaun Cassidy & Marilyn McCoo | SOLID GOLD | "You Were Always on My Mind” (6/26/1982)
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- Опубликовано: 15 июл 2023
- From our 2nd Season of Paramount Television’s hit TV series, “SOLID GOLD“: enjoy our co-host, SHAUN CASSIDY, and our host, MARILYN MCCOO singing Willie Nelson's hit, "YOU WERE ALWAYS ON MY MIND". This recording was arranged and produced by myself (Solid Gold's musical director and theme composer, Michael Miller - aka "Mickle").
The members of my SOLID GOLD band are:
Michael Miller - keyboards, trumpet
Rocky Davis - keyboards, trombone
Stewart Levin - keyboards
George Doering - guitar
John Goux - guitar
Michael Fisher - percussion
David Edelstein - bass
Mike Baird - drums
Background singers:
Dionne Warwick
Dee Dee Warwick
Jon Joyce
Joe Pizzulo
Kipp Lennon
Deborah Davis
Sunny Wilkinson
Beth Anderson
Gail Lopata
Mitzi McCall
Myrna Matthews
Recorded at A&M Studios, Engineered by Howard Wolen & Clyde Kaplan 
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Shaun singing Willie Nelson always on my mind, just shows more of what he can do. His voice so amazing. Such a gorgeous man,with a beautiful voice. Shaun you ROCK
Shaun Cassidy always had a great singing voice. A great actor too.
Shaun did a great job with this song. 1:32
Qué Talentos, Qué Época Tan Bonita,Me Trae Tantos Recuerdos 🙏🤗💖💛🧡💚
Solid Gold Second Season.
Air Date Saturday, June 26th, 1⃣9⃣8⃣2⃣. Marylin McCoo and Shaun Cassidy singing You we're Always on My Mind by Willie Nelson. 4:21 second mark Full Roll Closing End Credits.
What a beautiful cover. ❤
They were amazing.What a delicius performance of the song.
Shaun Cassidy was most famous in acting on "The Hardy Boys Mysteries" television series in the late 1970s or early 1980s, however he is a singer and his mother is Shirley Jones, Mrs. Partridge on "The Partridge Family", from 1970 to 1974, but a singer in Broadway plays and her own tours over the years and has two memoirs released to tell a lot about her colorful career and life. Marilyn McCoo had a knack for comedy, as seen here, and still does, and blended well with Shaun on "Always On My Mind".
There is a Solid Gold record album that Marilyn McCoo released in 1983 and it contains a solo version of this song done by her along with some others, including the "other" Solid Gold song that was composed and written by...I do not know. It is the one that mentions a "galaxy of stars" and "Solid Gold" several times. It was featured on a 1983 episode. I found a copy still wrapped in plastic wrap. It has been released on compact disc with a bonus song, but I have the original RCA Records 33 1/3 LP vinyl record.
Shaun Cassidy recently stated publicly that he is going back into music soon.
Well, a beautiful arrangement here, Michael, that did this 1982 Willie Nelson song much respect. He is 90 years old and still tours, but not as much. Well, at least he is still with us at that age and sings still. He has written a lot of memoirs with humorous titles. I am a fan of celebrity memoirs. Marilyn znd Billy Davis Jr. did a good memoir in 2004 and "Solid Gold" gets many mentions.
Glad you enjoyed my arrangement for Shaun and Marilyn. I remember it being a particularly fun day in the studio recording with Shaun (we did the backing track at United Western Studios in Hollywood). I had already known his family prior to that. In early 1980, I was the Musical Director for an off Broadway (very off-Broadway, since it was in LA!) musical play called “Faces on the Wall“ written by Tina Landau (daughter of the film producers, Edie and Eli Landau). Starring in the play was a high school student named Patrick Cassidy (Shaun‘s brother) which is how I met the family, including Shirley Jones - I even went to a Johnny Mathis concert with them at the Hollywood Bowl at one point.
@@bigeyezzzzzzz Yes, Shaun and Marilyn harmonized particularly well on that popular Willie Nelson song, "You Were Always On My Mind". I remember the old United Western Studios in Hollywood.
As for Shirley Jones and the entire Cassidy family, Shirley was wonderful on Broadway productions, including Rodgers and Hammerstein's "Oklahoma" in the 1950s. It was ironic that she received her Academy Award for playing against her usual image for the 1960 movie "Elmer Gantry".
It is further ironic that she had been considered for the role of Carol Brady in "The Brady Bunch" by its creators, but turned it down because she did not want to do series television at that time, it has been reported. It is further ironic that Florence Henderson, who did get the part of Carol Brady, on my favorite early 1970s Paramount television show,, "The Brady Bunch", also had a connection to Broadway early on and was also a singer as well.
"The Partridge Family" had David Cassidy and Shirley Jones, son and stepmother, working together. David Cassidy was talented as the character Keith Partridge and both that show and "The Brady Bunch" toured during the 1970s as real musical acts. Both shows are known for being originally on nearly simultaneously and still popular in reruns. I liked them both.
David Cassidy took a very serious role as a Los Angeles police officer working undercover in a gang-plagued Los Angeles high school in a 1978 movie.
The Cassidy brothers were a talented lot and it is good that Shaun Cassidy is back in music. I thought he did well with Parker Stevenson on "The Hardy Boys Mysteries". I liked the books and television series.
Shirley Jones performed at the 1986 Hollywood Bowl Easter Sunrise Service and sang "Let There Be Peace On Earth". It was widely covered in the local media.
Johnny Mathis is still going strong in concerts. He was the first musical artist to release a greatest hits collections and it was one of the best-selling albums ever. He was a favorite of my mother and was from her era when he began to become widely known in the 1950s.
Your arrangements on "Solid Gold" were always very excellent. I recently read on the Internet Movie Database that you had done some musical arrangements for "The Carol Burnett Show" in the late 1970s era of that show. Carol used to have a lot of musical guests, even The Jackson Five during a real earthquake.
Anyway, the "Solid Gold" arrangements carried a unique flair.
Thank you, kind, sir, for your ever-informative comments and your always positive words!
P.S. - another fun fact to add to what you wrote: when I was a senior at UCLA, I was hired to do all the arrangements for an album for Florence Henderson (Mrs. Brady), which was released on ABC Records. At that time in my life, people often said I looked like Barry Williams (Greg Brady), so, as you can imagine, Florence and I had a lot of fun together! Another fun fact: that album was produced by Charles Koppelman, who, at the same time was also producing Barbra Streisand, Dolly Parton and Mac Davis (which is how I ended up writing a song with Mac and earning a gold record for it).
@@bigeyezzzzzzz That is a fun fact about Florence Henderson. Charles Koppelman worked with big names in entertainment- Barbra Streisand, Dolly Parton, Mac Davis, and Florence Henderson. I did get a chance to see Florence Henderson and Robert Reed in person. That was in early 1989 and I was 16 years old. They were doing a play at the La Mirada Civic Theatre in La Mirada, near the Los Angeles-Orange County line. It was called "Alone Together". The premise was about parents settling in for an empty nest only to have their "boomerang" adult children return home in their early 20s. One of those who played one of the "boomerang kids" was Craig Bierko.
He later went on to an NBC-TV comedy that co-starred Julie Warner in the mid-1980s. One night he was a guest on the NBC "Late Night With Conan O'Brien" show and mentioned the play "Alone Together", the La Mirada Civic Theatre, Florence Henderson and Robert Reed, and that was his first acting gig.
At the time of the play, it was just slightly after the 1988 "A Very Brady Christmas" television movie.
You mentioned ABC Records was the label for Florence at the time that you had worked with her on her album. That must have felt really ethereally special, as you mentioned the Barry Williams comparison.
I recall that Marilyn McCoo and Billy Davis Jr. had some of their post-Fifth Dimension music on ABC Records as well. I do not know if ABC Records was related to ABC-TV at the time, but that was the network of the original "Brady Bunch" series, so it was a likely fit for Florence at the time, if it were.
There was a "Brady Bunch" disco-type hour-long show on ABC-TV in 1976 or 1977. Years later, in 2004, Barry Williams was on the PBS "My Music" disco music special and mentioned that he had a satellite radio show on disco music.
As far as your resemblance to him in the time you were working with Florence Henderson as a student at UCLA, I thought the same thing when I saw some early "Solid Gold" photos of you in a striped shirt. That was because in some of the episodes of "The Brady Bunch", the Greg Brady character, played by Barry Williams, wore a lot of those shirts with the large horizontal stripes.
I bought a copy of his book, "Growing Up Brady", that had first been published in 1992 with a Foreaard by Robert Reed and then the updated 2000 edition.
The Brady Bunch Kids were talented in singing on the show, from the many versions of their opening theme song, "Here's The Story" after they replaced the Peppermint Trolley Company on the theme and also.in an episode in which they appeared on a television show within the series as The Silver Platters. People still recall the Peter Brady-inspired song, "When It's Time To Change", as his voice was changing due to adolescence and the name they used for their group The Silver Platters, had been hastily chosen by Greg Brady, as they went on a television talent show within their own episode to compete to win money for a wedding anniversary present for their parents.
When Alice (Ann B. Davis) saw them on TV, she yelled to Carol and Mike (Florence Henderson and Robert Reed) "Come quick!!! The kids are on television!!!" , Carol said "Who's kids?" Alice responded by saying, "Yours, no, ours!!!" What an episode that had been.
The song that won them the prize was "We're Gonna Keep On Dancing Through The Night", which to me, nearly presaged the arrival of "Solid Gold" and The Solid Gold Dancers slightly more than 5 years after the last of "The Brady Bunch" first-run episodes went off the airwaves.
The music on that show, interlude and change-of-scene music, was by Frank DeVol, and just as with "Solid Gold", I watched the end credits with the end theme music, in this case, all instrumental, and the boxed-squares end credits all the way through to the then-current Paramount mountain, just like on "Solid Gold", but they used a rectangular-shaped logo with the stars around the Paramount mountain, but not the blue Paramount mountain logo with stars surrounding it, as that had not been used by Paramount until 1979.
Paramount seemed to have the best shows, logos, and logo music.
Thanks, Michael, for the Florence Henderson story. She was often seen in the audience of "Dancing With The Stars" and was a contestant on the show in 2010. Early in life, she overcame a well-publicized hearing issue and went on to become a wonderful entertainer and a beloved entertainer.
She was one of the first "Today Show" weather girls in the 1950s and would always be on their major anniversary shows, eventually returning to co-host "Later Today" from 1999 to 2000.
She was the first female guest host chosen by Johnny Carson for his "Tonight Show",in the 1960s and 1970s.
Florence Henderson then had her own television talk show on The Nashville Network in the 1980s. She was a unique entertainer and, again, thank you, Michael, for sharing that and about Barry Williams as well.
Thank you for all that information! I knew I could count on you for yet another preliminary glimpse into your upcoming book about me and Solid Gold! 😅
Shaun Cassidy was a huge Teen Idol in the late 70s. I remember he was in direct competition with Teen singing sensation Leif Garrett. Them both battled it out to be the hottest Teen Idol...imo Leif Garrett took over! 😮
Beautiful duet! Now those dancers during the closing credits...pretty bad lol
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Et il y a une raison pour laquelle je me sens si haut
Doit être la saison
Quand cette lumière d’amour brille tout autour de nous
Alors laissez ce sentiment vous saisir au plus profond de vous
Et vous envoyer sous le choc, là où votre amour ne peut pas se cacher
Et puis aller voler
À travers les nuits au clair de lune avec votre amoureux
Laissez simplement votre amour couler comme un ruisseau de montagne
Et laissez votre amour grandir avec le plus petit des rêves
Et laissez votre amour se manifester
Et vous comprendrez ce que je veux dire, c’est la saison
Laissez votre amour voler comme un oiseau sur une aile
Et laissez votre amour vous lier à tous les êtres vivants
Et que votre amour brille
Et vous comprendrez ce que je veux dire, c’est la raison pour laquelle
Il y a une raison pour les nuits chaudes et douces
Et il y a une raison pour les lumières des bougies
Doit être la saison
Quand ces lumières d’amour brillent tout autour de nous
Alors laissez cette merveille vous emmener dans l’espace
Et vous mettre sous son étreinte aimante
Sentez simplement le tonnerre qui réchauffe votre visage
Vous ne pouvez pas vous retenir
Laissez simplement votre amour couler comme un ruisseau de montagne
Et laissez votre amour grandir avec le plus petit des rêves
Et laissez votre amour se manifester
Et vous comprendrez ce que je veux dire, c’est la saison
Laissez votre amour voler comme un oiseau sur une aile
Et laissez votre amour vous lier à tous les êtres vivants
Et que votre amour brille
Et vous comprendrez ce que je veux dire, c’est la raison pour laquelle
Laissez simplement votre amour couler comme un ruisseau de montagne
Et laissez votre amour grandir avec le plus petit des rêves
Et laissez votre amour se manifester
Et vous comprendrez ce que je veux dire, c’est la saison
Laissez votre amour voler comme un oiseau sur une aile
Et laissez votre amour vous lier à tous les êtres vivants
Et que votre amour brille
Et vous comprendrez ce que je veux dire, c’est la raison pour laquelle