As you might have guessed from the title of this post the theme for this years Mayhem’s 12 Days Of Christmas is, once again, the classic Christmas song “The Twelve Days Of Christmas”. What did the protagonists beau give on the first day of Christmas? It was of course a Partridge in a Pear Tree. So with a rather tenuous link, todays song is by David Cassidy and it is “The Puppy Song”. Cassidy had played Keith Partridge in US sitcom ‘The Partridge Family’ (I told you the link was tenuous). “The Puppy Song” was released as a double A side with “Daydreamer” in 1973 when it went to the top of the UK charts. This was possibly peak Cassidymania period.
Harry Nilsson wrote and recorded the song for his 1969 album ‘Harry’. The song came about after Paul McCartney asked Nilsson to write a song for Mary Hopkin in 1968 after she became one of the first signings to the Beatles Apple label. Her version featured on her 1969 album ‘Post Card’. I was never a fan of David Cassidy, but I think some of his stuff has aged well, particularly this track! There will be a playlist of all twelve songs when we get to the final one? What do you think tomorrows song will be?
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