Doesn't Somebody Want To Be Wanted

Written By - Wes Farrell, Jim Cretecos and Mike Appel.

I go downtown and roam all around

But every street I walk I find another dead end

I'm on my own but I'm so all alone

I need somebody so I won't have to pretend

I know that someone's just waiting somewhere

I look around for her but she's just not there, oh!

Doesn't somebody want to be wanted like me?

Where are you?

Doesn't somebody want to wanted like me...just like me

I'm runnin' free but I don't want to be

I couldn't take another day like yesterday

I'm dead on my feet from walkin' the street

I need somebody to help me find my way

I've gotta get out of this town

Before I do I'll take a last look around, though

Doesn't somebody want to be wanted like me?

Where are you?

Doesn't somebody want to wanted like me...just like me

Spoken:

'You know, I'm no different than anybody else

I start each day and end each night

It gets really lonely when you're by yourself

And where is love?

And who is love?

I gotta know'

Doesn't somebody want to be wanted like me?

Where are you?

Doesn't somebody want to wanted like me...just like me

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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.

"Doesn't Somebody Want To Be Wanted" - Part of original recording

"Doesn't Somebody Want To Be Wanted" - altered to reflect David’s true voice.

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On: Up To Date, At Home With Their Greatest Hits, Gold Disc, David Cassidy and the Partridge Family: The Definitive Collection, The Partridge Family Greatest Hits -Arista, David Cassidy's Partridge Family Favorites, The World of the Partridge Family, That's David Cassidy 12 Original Super Classics