David Cassidy on the Web
The award waits for … Cassidy
December 10, 2012
By Suzanne Carbone
www.theage.com.au
THERE must be uncollected lay-bys gathering dust in shops and unreturned library books gathering cobwebs on bookshelves but this scenario beats them all. In 1973, Partridge Family heart-throb David Cassidy won the ''most popular overseas singer'' award at the TV Week King of Pop Awards at the Logies, but he wasn't at the ceremony and still doesn't have the statue. As the story goes, music identity Lee Jolley was supposed to take the statue to a barbecue and give it to Monkees cutie Davy Jones, who was a guest presenter at the awards, and he was supposed to take the statue back to the US and give it to the TV spunk named Keith Partridge. That never happened because South Yarra publicist Di Rolle has the statue and here's how the Seinfeld episode continues. In 1974, Cassidy returned to Oz for the Logies, sharing the stage with Bert Newton, who made trademark gags about the singer's flashy white tuxedo with rhinestone lapels and matching boots. Cassidy returned home without the statue. Then in 2002, Cassidy toured Australia again and his publicist was Rolle, so Jolley sent her the statue to give to him … but … he didn't take it. It has been at her home ever since. ''I'm keeping it in its little box,'' Rolle said, very much enjoying starring in the 39-year-old tale of the partridge that never flew home. Incidentally, during Cassidy's 2002 media conference at the Como Hotel in South Yarra, he stopped the questions to tell a journalist how much he loved her velvet dress. It was Partridge maroon.
