Shaun Squad Society
The Shaun Squad Society Podcast is a podcast written, produced and hosted by three women who want to keep the Magic of a Midnight Sky alive!
Cindy, Dorese and Dame became friends at a Shaun Cassidy concert and immediately decided to form "The Shaun Squad." Soon after, the Shaun Squad Society Podcast was conceived to discuss and reminisce about all-things Shaun Cassidy, from his first years as a teen idol to his current career as a writer and producer.
This podcast brings together a community of Shaun's devoted fans, the ones who played his albums non-stop, and who tuned into The Hardy Boys Mysteries every Sunday evening. And now, 46 years later, Shaun's story-telling tour has delighted fans again. So, join us for the stories, fun-facts, and fascinating interviews as we take you down memory lane with our Teen Dream, Shaun Cassidy.
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Who wouldn't love to win a monkey from their favorite teen idol? Our special guest, Dawn from Pennsylvania, takes us on an exciting journey of her love for Shaun Cassidy that includes winning a monkey by entering a Tiger Beat magazine contest! She shares the extraordinary story that led her to a lifetime of memories.
As we jump into the world of collectibles, we learn the emotional significance these pieces hold. They are not just items, but tangible connections to our past and the joy we experienced during those times. Cindy tells us about her delightful experience attending a Shaun Cassidy concert in 1978, where she got a press package with background information about Shaun and 8x10 glossy photos! She shares how she got Shaun to sign a picture she drew him! This is one of her most treasured possessions. We also hear about Dorese’s poetry and papers she wrote in her high school days. Dame shares her favorite shadow box treasures with us.
Our episode concludes with a heartwarming reflection on the shared love and admiration we all have for Shaun Cassidy. Penny shares her story of how she got the napkin Shaun used to wipe his face at a concert in Nashville. Together, we have an incredible collection of Shaun Cassidy memorabilia--from posters to newspaper clippings--that has been gathered over the years. So, join us as we honor Shaun, and remember to share your favorite pieces of memorabilia on our social media accounts.
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Memorabilia and Winning Shaun Cassidy's Monkey
Speaker 1It said holiday gifts. You could either win the monkey from Sean or the teddy bear from Leif Garrett. So of course I wanted Sean's monkey. Who doesn't want?
Speaker 2Sean's monkey Right Right.
Speaker 3Now Michael Jackson's monkey. It's Sean's monkey.
Speaker 4Welcome to the Sean's Quest Society podcast with your host myself, penny, cindy Day, madonna and Doris, and I invite you to share our love and enthusiasm for all things Sean Cassidy, from his teen idol days to his recent adventure back on the road again. Please join us for our stories and memories that connected us to those happy days that helped create it, the Sean's Quest Society podcast. Wow, welcome back to season two. What a nice little break we had, and we want to thank our listeners for making season one a success, which made it possible for us to come back and have a season two. I'm telling you you're not going to be disappointed with season two. We have some surprises up our sleeve. What do you think, girls, we have?
Speaker 2so much fun coming your way, so many surprises. I said you don't want to miss a minute.
Speaker 4Not a single episode. This would be a great season. Yes, and if you're new to the Sean's Quest Society podcast, go back to season one so that you're ready for season two.
Speaker 3Yeah, you can catch up and listen to all our episodes?
Speaker 4Absolutely, and there's 10 episodes in season one.
Speaker 2Let's see yes.
Speaker 4And our first one. But yeah, wow, this is going to be a great season.
Speaker 2I'm looking forward to it. I am so happy to be back and I am looking very forward to season two.
Speaker 4We're going to be talking about memorabilia today, and while we're talking about our favorite pieces of memorabilia, we want you to think about yours, and we want you to share your favorite pieces or even write a little comment on our Instagram, facebook. Just let us know. We like interactions, so tell us about your favorite memorabilia. We all have treasures Lots of them. Lots of them, Lots of them. I can't even tell you what Cindy, Doreese and Dame have All mine History.
Speaker 3Oh history History.
Speaker 4Yeah, talk about memorabilia. We have a special guest today who has the ultimate memorabilia, so I would like to introduce Dawn from Pennsylvania. Hi Dawn, hi Dawn, hi everybody, hi Hi. Welcome to the Sean Squad Society podcast. Thanks for inviting me. So here's what we want to know how did you win the monkey from Sean Cassidy, from Tiger Beauty actually? Yeah Well, yeah, from Tiger Beauty, but Sean was holding it.
Speaker 2Sean was holding it, so yes, Well, before we find out how you want it, maybe you just want to give us a little rundown what magazine, what issue it was the Tiger Beauty which issue Dawn that said when this monkey or.
Speaker 1I believe it was like it said holiday gifts you could either win the monkey from Sean or the teddy bear from Leif Garrett. So of course I wanted Sean's monkey. No, who doesn't?
Speaker 2want Sean's monkey Right Right Now.
Speaker 3Michael Jackson's monkey. It's Sean's monkey.
Speaker 4Hey, I have a question though. What's that? Could you pick, like if you wanted to like win from Sean or win from Leif, or did it just go into a big like?
Speaker 1It went probably into like maybe a barrel or something. That's what I was trying to say and each one of them were was to take a name.
Speaker 2So did you have like the choice that you put on your entry Sean's monkey? So they separated, two separate entries.
Speaker 3Right, exactly yes, I believe it comes from the magazine right? You had to cut out a little coupon thing.
Speaker 1Yes, it was just like a little slip of a coupon and you put your name, your address and that was it. You send it in and Sean would pull a name out of the barrel and then Leif would pull a name out for the teddy bear and all of a sudden I figured OK, there's no way I'm going to win this. You know out of how many thousands of girls you know.
Speaker 2Well, I always used to say somebody's got to win, it Was it me.
Speaker 3Exactly it was Don. I didn't know if it was mine or not.
Speaker 2Back then I was so skeptical I'm like I'm not going to win. Yeah, I thought the same thing to him.
Speaker 3Like you know what they're going to get, so many I'm not going to try. But good for you, don. Yeah, well, it was so long ago.
Speaker 4I don't know if I did or didn't.
Speaker 3But, I'm glad I know the winner. Yeah. We always want to know who the winner was because you're like, do they really win this or not?
Speaker 1Yeah, yep, definitely. I've had him for 45 years.
Speaker 2Tell us about how you were notified, how you knew you won, your overwhelmed joy that I'm sure that you felt.
Speaker 1Oh yeah, they actually. That was called the Law Firm Company at the time, instead of just Tigerbeat. They sent me a letter and of course I saw this and I went ballistic, I went crazy. I mean I lived with my grandmother and I'm screaming around the apartment and she comes out and says what's the matter with you? And I said I just won Sean's monkey.
Speaker 2And I thought you lost your mind Right, exactly, and yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1And my grandmother. She just loved Sean as much as I did, so she was just ecstatic, she was going crazy, and if I could do cartwheels around the apartment, I would have.
Speaker 2How old were you, Don? You were probably like 15, 16, 17.
Speaker 1I think I was like. I think I was about 14 or something.
Speaker 2Okay, yeah. So, you still have your monkey today, correct?
Speaker 1Oh, I sure do.
Speaker 3Yeah, I never left her side when you got the monkey. What was in the back besides the monkey? Anything else?
Speaker 1Um, I think that was maybe about it, and they had just said that they wanted me to take a picture of the monkey and send it into Tiger Beat. I took the picture but never saw the picture in Tiger Beat.
Speaker 3Did Sean send you a note with it?
Speaker 1No, nothing.
Speaker 3No, no, no, no nothing.
Speaker 1It was all from the law for publication.
Speaker 2They had that contest under their control.
Speaker 3But at least he held onto it and took a picture with it, and you know he did hold onto it because there was a picture yeah exactly, yeah, exactly yeah.
Speaker 2What did you name the monkey?
Speaker 1You know, a lot of people asked me that, um, I was going to come up with a couple names. I was actually going to call them Cassidy, um, and then somebody said, well, why don't you name them Paul?
Speaker 2There you go, it's little name.
Speaker 1And then I was going to name him Sean, but I didn't want to, you know, give Sean that kind of a idea that he's a monkey. But it's from him.
Speaker 3So yeah, right, right right.
Speaker 2And what you want to. You know you can name him anything you want, yeah.
Speaker 4Yeah, basically so as of now, if he's still nameless. Basically yes.
Speaker 1I just wanted to say, sure, yeah, we should do a contest, what's?
Speaker 2your dog.
Speaker 4Yeah, name Don Smunky.
Speaker 2Like, do you dust them and shake them out and give them a little?
Speaker 3Is he sitting on your?
Speaker 1bed every night. Actually, he's on a shelf in the room and he has the fan club's memorabilia, the buttons.
Speaker 2So you know, Janet, the fan club, you mean the Sean Cassidy group yes, yes.
Speaker 3There are a lot of people that you didn't have a fan club back then. Right, right, yeah, that's right?
Speaker 2Well, it's so amazing that you I do that too. I have stuff and we're going to talk later. We all do that. We've talked for decades, decades longer than some marriages, I'm telling you.
Speaker 3Yeah, that's her joke.
Speaker 2How near and dear this stuff was to us, and no one was ever going to pry that monkey away from you, I'm sure.
Speaker 1Oh no, let them try yeah.
Speaker 3Don, is that your favorite memorabilia from?
Speaker 1Yes, definitely, Absolutely. And when I went to his concert in 2019 at Washington DC, I brought that monkey with me. And where did the monkey go? Backstage?
Speaker 3Did you get backstage?
Speaker 1Well, kind of, yes, a friend of mine from another group. She actually knew Sean and she spoke to Tracy. She actually spoke to the kids Marin and Lila at the time and when you say Tracy.
Speaker 2I hate to keep doing this, but not everyone knows, so Tracy Sean's wife, sean's wife daughter. Marin and his daughter Lila.
Speaker 1Yes, Right, she had talked to Tracy and Tracy said to her yeah, sure you could come backstage because Sean and Nancy were friends throughout the years, back in their days. So I'm shaking inside. Okay, I'm about ready to cry. I think we all cried once. But I see that I got to hold it together when we met Sean.
Speaker 3That's a normal reaction of us fans, right yeah.
Speaker 1Right, right, right. So we got back there and my eyes are just fixed on him. I bet I couldn't look at anything else.
Speaker 3Yeah, they're Sean. Like they're Sean In your head. You're like they're Sean. He's right in front of me, there he is.
Speaker 4Yeah.
Speaker 1And I wanted to get a picture of him with the monkey and myself, but after a little while they had to go and because the kids had to go to bed and whatever. So I just didn't get my chance to get a picture with them.
Speaker 2Well, you know what Memories of whatever you had are your memories, and that's as good as it gets, in my opinion.
Speaker 1Oh right.
Speaker 2I have a couple of photo ops myself, but I have the memory and it lives in my head and there it is.
Speaker 3Yeah, we're doing favorite memorabilia today. Yeah, favorite memories, do you have any?
Speaker 4other memorabilia that you've kept all of these years.
Speaker 1That, I think, is basically it. I think that was basically the major, major one. That's huge.
Speaker 2I never thought I would meet the lady Virtually, or however, who won that monkey? I still have that tiger beat.
Speaker 3I do, I do, I do, I do.
Speaker 2In the magazine with my name and everything. I never sent it.
Speaker 3Oh, I better check my goodness.
Speaker 2Because I just didn't feel like you know what all these thousands and thousands of entries.
Speaker 3It's hard to figure out, but somebody wins. And when you did win and send your picture back to them, did they put you in the magazine With your picture?
Speaker 1No, they were supposed to, but they didn't. I never saw it.
Speaker 3I would go back and follow up and look for that, but you don't think they did.
Speaker 1I don't think so, because all I know it was probably the Christmas issue. I want to say well, I won it in 78, so it was in December. So I would think they would have done it January of 79. Oh, want to go back and look. I'm thinking either that issue or the next issue after that.
Speaker 2Right, they wouldn't have gone too far Right.
Speaker 1Right.
Speaker 3What other contest was there for him? Did he do any other contests that you can remember?
Speaker 4There was a contest. I know, remember and I know I sent this one in that. Sean would come to your city and spend a day with you. Oh, okay, and I had it all planned out what we were going to do, and where we were going to eat and where we were going to shop and, of course, my dad was going to have to drive us around.
Speaker 2Of course, Sean and I are going to get the back seat Of course you're a man, not Sean's people.
Speaker 4My dad would have been driving us around and you know we'd be in the back seat together. Hold the hands. Yeah hold the hands, of course, but that one I do remember sending in.
Speaker 2Well, don, this was so much fun.
Speaker 4Yes, Thanks for sharing that story, and I'm so glad to finally talk to you, you know, vocally.
Speaker 1Yeah, yes, me too, me too.
Speaker 2Sean Cassidy fan convention Facebook group all the time.
Speaker 3Right and don't give up on getting that sign that monkey signed for him because he's still around. Yeah, oh, I know.
Speaker 1Yeah, I'm still hoping that I'll get that picture one day. Don't hope. Yeah, he's still touring.
Speaker 3Believe it.
Speaker 1Believe it. Yeah, you know achieve it yeah.
Speaker 5Keep bringing that monkey with you.
Speaker 3You never know, oh yeah.
Speaker 2Thank you so much for your support and everything on our podcast. I read your comments and thank you very, very much for all of your support.
Speaker 4Oh, you're very welcome. Thank you for having me. Yeah Thanks, yeah Thanks for taking time out of your day to spend a few minutes with us. We really appreciate it.
Speaker 1Oh, definitely Okay.
Speaker 3Have a great rest of your day. Don Take care of that, monkey.
Speaker 1Okay, oh, I will.
Speaker 3Okay.
Memorabilia and Special Possessions
Speaker 4I know. Thanks, bye-bye, bye. I'm going to flip a quarter and think you might have the most, or maybe the most organized. Maybe we're closer to the most organized. Yeah, most organized I'm going to go with. So tell us about yours.
Speaker 3All right, Of course I have all the posters and the records and everything like that, of course, but my favorite memorabilia has to be from the concerts I went to, because that's where I got things that I don't know if everybody would have. I went to the Chicago concerts back in 78 and I met just before another podcast. My friend got backstage pass and she went backstage. I didn't know she did, but she brought me back this press package I guess it's called, where you hand out to the people with the press at the concert.
Speaker 3Maybe they thought she was, yeah, maybe they thought she was with the press. But it's a packet, it's a folder and it has different press releases in it. You know how he sets records. Sean Cassidy sets first US tours weekends to be spent in 12 cities. That was another section. There's another one called Cassidy gold where they talk about his gold records. And then there's just a general background of Sean and his life and how he became who he was now. And it also came with some black and white pictures of the band, which is nice. I've never seen this before. And then a 8 by 10 glossy of Sean. Just a you know photo.
Speaker 2Yeah, yeah, are they signed, are they signed?
Speaker 3No these are not signed. These are all 8 by 10 glossies and they, those were all in that packet. It's all in the packet that you give to like radio stations magazine press magazine yeah newspaper newspaper. That was their press release. And there's one of him in concerts. I'm another headshot. And then there's well, this one might be extra with Sean and Parker.
Speaker 4Parker yeah.
Speaker 3That might be for something else, but this hit all Sean in it. So that was my prized possession that I still have, and yeah, well, not in surprise, because not everyone has a press package. I've never seen anybody have it before, so I hold onto this one. This is very special. Even though I didn't get to go backstage, I got the press release.
Speaker 4Well, that's a treasure in your in itself, Like you said, yeah yeah, and then my backstage pass I still have from back then.
Speaker 3I also have a backstage pass from Alpine Valley. Alpine Valley was special because I got to meet him at that one and I got to go backstage and my prized possession from that one is this picture I drew of him. Oh my God, so you drew that.
Speaker 2Yeah, there's a yeah, did you sign it Stendi yes.
Speaker 3I drew this picture in high school and I always want to be ready when I go to a concert. I didn't know if I was going to meet him or not, but I brought the picture with me not knowing, and for some reason my friend's sister got us some backstage passes, so I took this picture that I drew and he signed it.
Speaker 4Wow, was he impressed with that? He would have had to have been so impressed.
Speaker 5He was, but he wanted to keep it. I thought he wanted to keep it Well.
Speaker 3I actually. I actually drew two. I gave him one and I got one signed. But he was very rushed back there. He couldn't like sit and have conversations with you, so I put it in front of him and he said, oh, is this mine? I said no, and then she gave him a copy.
Speaker 3I said, no, but I have a copy here in this envelope. So I gave that to him. But yeah, that's my prized possession from there, because I had no idea I was going to meet him. But I was ready. That was in 78.
Speaker 2Well, one second, missy, exactly Right. I'm honored that you do our podcast with us and I love every minute of it. But with that artistic ability, what in the world were?
Speaker 3you Okay. Well, I'll back up in our class we were supposed to do this project where you took a picture out of a magazine and you wrote uh, you did vertical lines to make the picture. So I did a fair faucet picture and I thought if I could do half the page, I could do the whole page and I'm thinking, well, I don't even need the lines, I'm going to try to just draw a picture from looking at the picture. So I would flip it up and draw underneath it what I saw and that's how it came to have Sean's picture.
Speaker 4I mean, you get it.
Speaker 3I just like them.
Speaker 4Every feather you get, every feather you get in this hair, you know it's perfect. I mean seriously.
Speaker 5So many times I've asked Cindy you know, because she's always going out of her way for us and I ask her if I can give her something that Sean has signed maybe that I bought on eBay or something and she'll tell me no, no, I already have a signature. So she's very proud of that particular. Yeah, I never needed it again after he signed this. She loved that I never, needed it again.
Speaker 3Yeah, so I have that, and then, of course, my backstage pass from Alpine Valley too, which I've always kept. So those are special to me, plus the concert memorabilia you get. There's him in the newspaper I've kept. I kept the newspaper articles, which was pretty cool.
Speaker 4That one is so cool I have all of those.
Speaker 2You're going to help me organize. Oh, I will, yeah.
Speaker 3This was March 27, 1978, chicago Tribune. There was an article, a huge article, about him. I mean, this picture of him is big in there, don't you think?
Speaker 2Yeah, that's the picture that came out after he did his international amphitheater show. This is the international amphitheater show.
Speaker 3No, I just said that oh yeah, yeah, this is okay. Yeah, this is dated Monday, so I guess I went on Saturday. Yes, yeah.
Speaker 4Wow, and it's titled Sean.
Speaker 3Sean, they cried. And then the other page showed a different perspective from Sean being on stage to everybody in the audience. But of course I can't find myself in this picture, so Well, you can't be seen in every picture there, no, but it was just on the cover right now.
Speaker 3This place was packed. So lots of good memories with that. And then one more special one that I have is my pillowcase, which I think I mentioned in another podcast. I got from the record store at Montgomery Wards it was a promo and they had stuff hung up of his first album and there was a pillowcase hanging from it. And I don't have the other posters anymore, but I kept that silk pillowcase. It's a little bit worn but it's the original. I mean, I didn't use it. It's a little bit old and I was going to say, cindy, we don't need to go there. I never used it on my pillow.
Speaker 3I always kept it safe in a box, but it's just old now so it's just kind of worn from ages.
Speaker 5Yeah, hers looks good, mine looks worn out.
Speaker 3Yeah, it's old, so what do you expect? So that's really the special stuff I have, but what's your? Stuff Dame.
Speaker 5Oh well, I have too many things, as you guys all know, from my closet, but I actually have four things that mean a lot to me. There's stories with these four. The first one, of course, is my little toy guitar. I took it with me the last time I went to Arlington and that's where I met Sean and that's where I got this little guitar sign.
Speaker 5Well, when I met him, I was so nervous and I was shaking that I offered the little guitar to him and I said you can give this to your kids?
Speaker 5And he said no, no, save it for your family. And at that time I realized you know what he really is a kind person to even say that, because I could just take it and I thought it was was priceless. And then what really meant a lot to me is when it came back, signed after the manager took it back to him. Well, the manager actually came back and he goes no, no, sean doesn't want to sign anything Because he knows that you'll sell it on eBay. And I told the manager. I said I will not go back and ask him again. So he went back and asked him and this time it came back to me and it said Exo loves Sean and I wanted to melt. It was so special, and so I like that, that guitar, so much, even though it's a toy, that my husband went and framed it for me and put some of my other favorite things around it. So I know, I know that's a little ridiculous, but no, it's not precious, that sounds so precious, dame I think you sent us a picture of
Speaker 4it. Yeah well, that's what I was going to say to Cindy when she was talking about her pillowcase. She should put it like in a shadow box or something, so that it does save or stay preserved?
Speaker 3Yeah, well, I did do some steaming to it to get wrinkles out today, but yeah, yeah, it's good to frame these things.
Speaker 5I have mine in my office while I'm teaching.
Speaker 3I'll ask my husband if I can frame it.
Speaker 5Yeah, there you go, have him do it for you.
Speaker 4It's right above our headboard.
Speaker 3Right Special occasion.
Speaker 5Well, actually, speaking of that, one of my favorite things is I wake up in the morning. There it is, it's framed.
Speaker 4Well, that's really cool.
Speaker 5One of my favorite posters, and not just the magic of the Midnight Sky ones. I have those framed and signed too, but it's the one that I had from when I was a kid. But I'll tell you guys about that one in a couple of minutes. But my next favorite piece you guys want to hear another one Sure, okay, yeah, it's my blue satin jacket and I've talked about that on my James closet. It's one of the things that fell out.
Speaker 5I think I remember, yeah, yeah, I liked it so much as a child. Well, I lived in Northern California and I was fortunate to live by the ocean. But my parents were very poor, they were hippies, they lived off the land and I only got two new outfits a year. But I had neighbors that had property near our property and they would come to visit from LA and when they would come to visit they would bring me boxes of hand-me-downs of clothes. And it just happened to be that there was a jacket in there that had Sean's picture on the back. It was a satin jacket and I remember wearing that to school and the kids looked at me like how did you get that? Where did you get that? It?
Speaker 3was your lucky day. Yes, it was.
Speaker 5Oh, and I loved that piece so much that when I lost it somewhere through my life I knew I had to replace it. And when I found it on eBay, I wanted it really bad, so bad that I had to buy three of them. Oh, dang Three, three of them. Well, they're my favorite. It's my favorite piece of clothes.
Speaker 2I used to want that jacket more than anything, when I was a kid? Yes, I wanted that. Me too. I don't have three of them.
Speaker 5dang, I have three of them, and there's one that almost fits me. Actually, these are different sizes. Yes, one is like for 10, 12 and the other one's for like size 14. Oh really, and the size 14? I can almost get on. So I may take a picture with it and say, nope, this is really me. I actually have it on, but I did take a picture of it.
Speaker 5I know one of my students wearing one and I have that in my set of pictures. My kids are so sick of hearing about Sean Cassidy that there was another concert going on and the mother to the kids asked me if I wanted to go to this musical with them and her child said no.
Speaker 3No, all Miss Dame likes is Sean Cassidy, as far as singers yeah, so that's one you're going to.
Speaker 5Yeah, yes, and they like wearing my little Sean Cassidy jacket. So, that's a very special piece.
Speaker 4Have you played your cassette for them yet?
Speaker 5Well, I play songs for them, but my cassette, my little cassette, my favorite little piece, it's actually in that shadow box with my guitar.
Speaker 4Oh, okay. Well, that's a great place for it, yeah.
Speaker 5It had to be in there. So you want to hear more about that? Well, sure, okay. Well that when I was a child, as I already told you, I didn't have a lot and I thought it was talk about a lucky day For Christmas, I received one of those little players. You know that you hold the handle, you walk around with yes, it was a box a little square.
Speaker 4Yes, yeah, we all had one of those.
Speaker 5Yeah, but that was a big deal for me to get one of those and my parents liked Bob Dylan I actually have a picture of them in Bob Dylan's house, but they like Bob Dylan, so I had to get a Bob Dylan tape, but I didn't really like it as much as I did my Sean Cassidy tape. So I had two tapes. The other one was Sean Cassidy and so I took that player and I went with one of my best friends and we used to walk around with that tape playing and I thought I was really cool when I played it.
Speaker 5Well, you were For some reason I remember walking around thinking I was big stuff.
Speaker 2That was cool to walk around with Sean playing right there.
Speaker 4Yeah, I mean Mike, your blue satin jacket, your pink cassette player, your Sean cassette tape.
Speaker 5Well, and I told you a little bit about the poster Okay, the poster. I liked that poster so much and the kids at school knew that I was the one out of the whole public school that liked Sean Cassidy the most. Well, my favorite, other favorite piece of memorabilia that poster and I have looked and looked on eBay for it, but I did find it and this was the poster I used to keep on my wall that I'd wake up to every day Is it the full lady poster no, I have that one too, but the one that I like the most reminds me of my childhood, and I had a hard childhood at times and I remember Looking at that poster and it just looked angelic almost to me.
Speaker 2Well, tell us which poster, give us a little description.
Speaker 5Well, I can. You know the box that the the Joe Hardy comes in. You know, on the back there's a poster, a picture of Sean yes, and he's like in this Hawaiian shirt, type of thing.
Speaker 2Oh, yes, yes, that poster has been on magazines.
Memorabilia and Teen Idols
Speaker 5Yes, yes, okay, I love that poster. Well, this one is a huge poster. I don't know how to describe the size, but it's much bigger and eight by ten, about three, four times that size, and I went and had it framed. But the embarrassing part was that after I bought it and I went to check out to pay for it, my son was standing there with me and the lady asked me if that was a picture of my son.
Speaker 5Oh my god that was a little weird, but it's still up on my wall and I do have, like I said, the two of Magic, of the Midnight sky, and those are signed. I hope he signs More posters for his future concerts, but I was fortunate to get a couple of those. So those are on my wall. But I also have the one of when he was my son's age on the wall because of the memory from when I was a kid.
Speaker 5Those are great memories, definitely my husband memories rolled his eyes when he knew how much I paid to have it framed.
Speaker 4Listen poster. Hey, but those are great memories and you want to keep them safe, that's sure and it's.
Speaker 5It's up there with a camp. The cat can't mess with it. Nobody else can either. It's up there for good.
Speaker 4Yeah, it is safe. It's staying there yeah, well, I think Doris is gonna share some of her memorabilia with us right now.
Speaker 2Okay, well, my memorabilia it's not really Anything from a magazine or a newspaper. Well, it is from newspapers, but when I was a kid, any time in school, any time, and I was in high school. So this is a little embarrassing for me, cuz you? You hear now that all the girls, all the women, are saying oh, I was eight, I was ten, I was in love with Sean Cassidy when I was 12, I was 12 and I'm like I was eight, 15 16?
Speaker 3me too, because even Sean is no time. Were you eight or nine? I'm like, no, I was 14.
Speaker 2So it's a little embarrassing, but not much cost. Hey, there I was, and at my school, every time I'm in modern history class, they asked us to write an article. My article was about Sean Cassidy. Why not? I kid you not, because I saved all of my modern history class Papers and I brought them today and I have the original newspaper article, cindy Carita Headline, and they're all yellow too.
Speaker 3So you know how old it is.
Speaker 2Cuz I can't preserve as well as you send it, you're gonna have to help me. Oh, I wanted yellow. I wanted girls to put on those gloves you wear at the museum.
Speaker 3When those like I'll hold it delicately, so so doesn't crumble. You can read the first one and Okay, let me read the heading of it. Yeah, stevenson, worried about being a star.
Speaker 2now that's Parker, right, right, but Sean sent a picture with them, so it was about Parker, which is kind of related to Sean exactly, and there's our six degrees for the day.
Speaker 4What did I get on that paper you got.
Speaker 3Where is the open it back up right there Plus no, a plus B plus, I thought that was.
Speaker 5Oh, I did too, oh you did too.
Speaker 2Okay, yes, cuz on this page it says a well done, a well done and then I have one From Sean, sean Cassidy, two careers at the age of 18, and that was from Tuesday August, the second in the Chicago sometime, and I got a B plus on that one. I don't know why she didn't like me so much, but a plus just so. You guys know. We had to cut the article out and then we had to write a little Synopsis, okay, and that's what I did. And then the last one I have that touched the ground, the last one I have is really not about Sean, but it's from the same year, it's from November's 1977, and it's called David Cassidy comes back to pursue an acting career, and that's also from the Chicago Sometimes, and it's got the article and I wrote my little paper on the back, I wrote my paragraph or two and I don't have a grade on that one.
Speaker 4I'll give you an a look at Mr One on the back.
Speaker 5No any plus.
Speaker 2Anyway, I used to write all of my newspaper articles about the Cassidy's and I saved every one of them. But then I got to write a Narrative. They wanted us to write a narrative in school and my narrative was called my teen idol. And this thing is like a hundred pages long.
Speaker 4Yes, it is long. We're trying to read it. And she wrote small. Yeah, and I had to write things like that. I made sure it was big. Take a broom.
Speaker 2This handwritten and I really Kind of damn feel embarrassed because there I was writing about Sean Cassidy In high school but I got an A on it.
Speaker 3I was wearing the t-shirts and you were doing all the writing, writing, so combination, we covered it all.
Speaker 4That's what I was thinking, yeah, and I was just wanting to be a singer price possession.
Speaker 2You guys, when I was a kid I used to want to write poetry. So I used to say one. These days I'm gonna learn how to write poetry and I think writing those newspaper Synopsis all through high school was my lead up to being a poet in my own rights. So one day in 1977, after the Hardy Boys debuted, I wrote a poem and I saved it from all of this time. It was the very, very first poem I wrote. I woke up in the middle of the night, I, and turned the light on in my room. I shared the room with my sister. She was like turn the light off. I'm like nope, not right, got it, right, got it right.
Speaker 4So we have an artist and a poet in the podcast.
Speaker 2Yeah, that's true, that is amazing and I am a published poet, but not so much that is so great. But my very first poem. I'm going to read it to you guys really, really fast, and this is why I think it's kind of silly because it's a 1978 me writing this and the poem is called Sean and it starts on the 27th day of September in 1958.
Speaker 2A child was born a little too late. I first saw him in January of 1977. When I looked at his face I thought I was a heaven. Yes, my mother thinks it's crazy to be in love with him, but as far as mothers go, who really listens to them? He is the most beautiful person I ever did see and I watch him every week on a Hardy Boy's mystery. Not only does he act, but he sure can sing. And when I never leave my seat when I hear teen dream, you see his face on every, on almost every magazine cover, and most people identify him as David's younger brother, even though he lives miles and miles away. I would really love to meet him someday. I'm not the only girl who's in love with this guy, why, there's lots of girls who think the same as I. Not only do I think of him, I dream of him too, especially the one when I turn to this guy and say I do In recent interviews he said I plan to be around for a long, long time.
Speaker 2He won't have to worry about fans love, because he'll always have mine. Who is this guy that I'm writing this poem on? Well, you should have guessed that his name is Sean.
Speaker 3Oh, that's very nice. I love that. I couldn't have wrote that, no, yeah.
Speaker 4And what were your 14? You said I wrote this in 78.
Speaker 2So I was a little older than your 10.
Speaker 4No wonder yeah.
Speaker 3Can I read you a line from your my teen idol paper? Why not, Cindy? I like this line it says, but I still find myself looking for certain characteristics in guys who asked me out. Yes, Characteristics that Sean had. He was my best friend for four years.
Speaker 4Yes, very nice. I love that.
Speaker 5OK, well, when I was in high school, poor guys I had to know you guys I would date were the ones that had feathered hair, and I think it was the Sean thing, even when I was a child, as as I would grow up, I didn't care how cute they were, they better have the feathered hair, the Sean Cassidy haircut. I actually dated somebody and I told him how to do his hair and he told me to this day he still does his hair that way. Oh dear.
Speaker 4Well, it's almost back in style. I don't know, it wasn't style back then. Well, it was a big deal to me.
Speaker 5There was one boy I dated and they made him cut his hair very short because in the Academy I went to they had to have short hair. Well, after I saw his new hair I wouldn't even sit by him In the lunchroom.
Speaker 4Oh, dear oh dear.
Speaker 3Look was gone.
Speaker 2Yeah, I think we all, we all and I know I did it because I wrote about it in my paper we all put ourselves in a position to try to find guys that were like Sean.
Speaker 4Oh yeah.
Speaker 2That impactful one.
Speaker 5Yeah, had to have the eyes, the hair, the look, the swing.
Speaker 3My first boyfriend didn't look like him, but I got my first boyfriend because of Sean, because everybody teased me in school. He was the only one that protected me from the teasing from the T shirts.
Speaker 4Yes, From my constant T shirts every day.
Speaker 3He's like I like Sean Cassidy. There's nothing wrong with that. Can I? Can I walk you home? And then he became my boyfriend. Oh, that's cute too, yeah.
Speaker 4So he always supported my, my team dream. That was nice, that was really cute.
Speaker 2Well, Penny, I'm sure you have some great memories or memorabilia stuff.
Speaker 4Well, I don't have what you guys have from my childhood. Who knows, who knows? I think it got maybe trash between husband one and two or something, but or even in a move, I don't know. Right, yeah, I lost some of my mind in a move too, yeah, but I mean I do have. You know, like we talked about before, you know, cindy gave me some albums, dame had given me the, and I brought him with today.
Speaker 3I gave you the doll.
Speaker 4Joe, what is it, Joe Hardy?
Speaker 3Joe Hardy doll, no that's a Sean Cassidy doll.
Speaker 4I think it's a Sean Cassidy Dame, isn't it? I didn't market the doll as the Hardy boys, I don't know. Yeah, I think it's.
Speaker 5I gave you the Sean, yeah, the Sean Cassidy doll. I think there is a Parker doll.
Speaker 3I think I saw that somewhere there is a Parker doll.
Speaker 4Yeah.
Speaker 5I have the Parker doll too.
Speaker 4Hey, I do have to go back to Deree's poem real fast because where you mentioned a boy came a little too late in the poem, you know on September 20.
Speaker 2On September 20, 1958, a child was born a little too late.
Speaker 4I read when I was doing research and stuff that Sean actually came a month late His oh, I read that too. Yeah that he came a month later than his expected due date. Well, that would be a big baby, I read that.
Speaker 2So, and the reason I wrote it is because he always told us when he did born late, he felt he was born late, he should have been a 50s, kid Right the 60s music yeah.
Speaker 4Oh yeah, I know why you wrote it, but yeah, I just like it. I remember reading that when I was doing some research that I was that.
Speaker 2yeah, you know that when you were 14.
Speaker 4Yeah, yeah, but back to some of my favorite things. You know, besides what the girls have gifted me and everything, I mean, I have my towel that I got in.
Speaker 3We were all witness to that. Yeah, very special. Yeah, what happened with the towel?
Speaker 4I mean, you guys probably heard the story Besides, well, you guys were there Over there who took your pictures?
Speaker 5You took the pictures of you.
Speaker 4Well, a lot of people did, but I know Jerry did take some and you know the girls in the audience, some of the girls in the audience.
Speaker 2We have video. Okay, guys, we have followers who have no idea what you're talking about, so you have to tell us.
Speaker 4I'll tell, we were in Nashville and Sean had just, I don't know, did his solo show, his solo show. But in the middle of it he's like, well, these lights are hot and there's no stack of towels here. So I'm like, oh, wait here. And I had a napkin, you know, because we were sitting at round tables, I think, and they had him set because we could order food. So I tossed napkin up to him and he's like, oh, thank you. So he's wiping his face and his hands and everything. And I go to sit down and he goes oh, don't sit yet here, you can have it back.
Speaker 2And I tossed it back to me. I think we all felt the same way, like what you can have it back.
Speaker 4Yeah, and I didn't expect that at all. I mean, that was just like. That was a shocker.
Speaker 2Oh yeah, that was like frosting on you.
Speaker 4You know that was frosting on the cake. But at the first show in Chicago, at the City of Winery, I, he was walking by shaking hands and I told this story before, so I apologize to keep repeating and I asked him for a selfie and he said yes. So those are two, two stories that will stay with me forever. And then, where is your napkin to this? Yeah, where's your home, in a special place.
Speaker 5Yeah, he needs to sign it for her. Don't clean the house with it.
Speaker 4No, no, no, no, I have it sealed and everything and with some other stuff. You know, I have ticket stubs and you know from. But you don't get ticket stubs really anymore. You get a print off if you, if you print it at all, you know. So now you don't get keepsakes like that.
Speaker 2You can go to the box office. I actually asked them to give you.
Speaker 4I never thought of that. We'll have to do that. Yeah, and they will.
Speaker 5You know, and then I have those in my shadow box.
Speaker 4Yeah, you know. So I have a handful of magazines and someday I might start going on eBay or something and buying a few things, but but I kind of feel like I don't need to because I can live.
Speaker 3I have all my original posters that were in my room back then. They were all put in a folder. Now I have them organized. They're all in plastic sheets protected. I have all those posters that were in my room. My whole room was covered in the ceiling.
Speaker 4Oh my God, I remember. Yeah, because you know, my sister and I shared a room and we had bunk beds and so, like, on one side of the wall I had like Parker and Scott Bale and a few other people, but on the ceiling I, you know, say Sean, you know so, like. So I was. Wherever I rolled, you know I did to see Sean. So if I rolled over, he was on the right, he was on the left and he was, you know on top.
Speaker 2But yeah, I have all of that stuff that you have, cindy, but it's just in a big, huge box.
Speaker 4I know we're going to have a party, Doris. We're going to have a party. We're going to get it all organized If we talked about all our memorabilia.
Speaker 3we'd be here for hours, for hours, oh, yes. I mean, that's how much we have, yeah.
Speaker 5My kids are tired of it, but that's OK, they understand.
Speaker 3But you know, pick out a few special things that mean something to you.
Speaker 4Makes mom happy.
Speaker 3Keep it close to your heart.
Speaker 4Well, that was fun talking about everybody's memorabilia it was great. I know, you know it's going to be really fun reading everything, reading all the comments, when the listeners you know write in and tell us about their favorite, you know or even send us an email Send us an email, and what's your email, doris?
Speaker 2Subscribe to society at gmailcom.
Speaker 4Yes, it is, and then also send us pictures with your memorabilia. We'd love to see those yes and unique item. Do you have that Right? Just her dawn, from Pennsylvania, just told us her story with her favorite memorabilia. I think I'm still jealous. Oh, so jealous. I mean, when's the monkey, sean's monkey? Maybe she'll hold it one day, I don't know, I don't know. Well, I mean, you know she's so far out east and then we're, you know, right in the middle of the Midwest. You know, for us to even United a concert.
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