A segment of Channel 7's "Kelly and Company" morning show from 1990 featuring teen heartthrob David Cassidy is up on youtube in multiple chunks, but it was the segment below that intrigued us, since Cassidy talks about the many gigs he remembers, including one at Detroit's Edgewater Amusement Park just before the park closed. Teased about closing the place, he points out that he at least opened another venue locally -- Pine Knob.
That's right, Cassidy was the first artist to play the summer venue when it opened in Clarkston in the early '70s.
On Kelly and Company, the most fun is when Cassidy is surprised by a woman in the audience who won a WKNR "Win a Date with David Cassidy" contest -- only she didn't get the date. She got to sit next to him briefly, and Scott Westerman of the website keener13.com advises us that a photo that flashes on the screen shows then-WKNR jock Pat St. John standing in between the girl and Cassidy. "Which one is me?" Cassidy queries, and indeed he and St. John have similar dark mops of hair.
The great Pat St. John can now be heard on New York's WCBS, and on the Blues channel on Sirius Satellite Radio.
