{"id":15770,"date":"2012-10-03T01:04:01","date_gmt":"2012-10-03T05:04:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=15770"},"modified":"2012-10-03T01:04:01","modified_gmt":"2012-10-03T05:04:01","slug":"shaun-cassidys-wasp-credit-where-credits-due","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/shaun-cassidys-wasp-credit-where-credits-due\/","title":{"rendered":"Shaun Cassidy&#8217;s <em>Wasp<\/em>: Credit Where Credit&#8217;s Due?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-15782\" title=\"Shaun_Cassidy_Wasp\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Shaun_Cassidy_Wasp.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"280\" height=\"279\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Shaun_Cassidy_Wasp.jpg 280w, https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Shaun_Cassidy_Wasp-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 280px) 100vw, 280px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Remember teen-hearthrob <strong>Shaun Cassidy<\/strong>&#8216;s play for musical credibility, an album called\u00a0<em>Wasp<\/em>? On this 1980,\u00a0<strong>Todd Rundgren<\/strong>-produced album the younger half-brother of David (and star of <em>The Hardy Boys\/Nancy Drew Mysteries<\/em> TV series),covered songs by David Bowie, The Who, The Animals, Ian Hunter, Talking Heads, and more. Cool songs. Rundgren and <strong>Utopia<\/strong> back young Shaun.<\/p>\n<p>As mind-blowing as the thought of this album was when it came out, I never heard a lick of it&#8230;until now. Have you ever heard the entire album? Check out the following tracks and let me know if Shaun Cassidy belated deserves credit where credit is due.<\/p><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_mIfJt8QrrE?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><p><!--nextpage--><\/p>\n<p>Here are some more covers of interest.<\/p><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KhOGuja-CBQ?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/J1aMdteIL00?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><p>Ready for a little more? I thought so&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><!--nextpage--><\/p><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KHdw6y2u-dQ?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/56GHn3nRmYA?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><p>This would be Shaun Cassidy&#8217;s final album. I say <em>Mad props!<\/em> to the guy for trying something interesting. In 2 minutes of extensive research in preparation for this piece I did not find an interview with the artist regarding his thoughts on this effort, but I did find a <a href=\"http:\/\/digivinyltal.blogspot.com\/2007\/08\/shaun-cassidy-1980-wasp.html\" target=\"_blank\">blog piece placing blame squarely on Rundgren&#8217;s shoulders for messing up Cassidy&#8217;s fine efforts<\/a>. Since I still hold Rundgren responsible for messing up <strong>XTC<\/strong>&#8216;s <em>Skylarking<\/em>, I heartily concur with the writer&#8217;s opinion.<\/p>\n<p>I believe Cassidy finally gained some artistic credibility in the early &#8217;90s as producer of some highly regarded TV shows that I never watched. More power to him.<\/p>\n<p>Now, whatever happened to <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/images2.wikia.nocookie.net\/__cb20080516080521\/hardyboys\/images\/2\/26\/Nancy_Drew_Pamela_Sue_Martin_1.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">Pamela Sue Martin<\/a><\/strong>?<\/p>\n<nav class=\"page-links\"><strong>Pages:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/shaun-cassidys-wasp-credit-where-credits-due\/\" class=\"post-page-numbers\"><span class=\"page-num\">1<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/shaun-cassidys-wasp-credit-where-credits-due\/2\/\" class=\"post-page-numbers\"><span class=\"page-num\">2<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/shaun-cassidys-wasp-credit-where-credits-due\/3\/\" class=\"post-page-numbers\"><span class=\"page-num\">3<\/span><\/a><\/nav>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember teen-hearthrob Shaun Cassidy&#8216;s play for musical credibility, an album called\u00a0Wasp? On this 1980,\u00a0Todd Rundgren-produced album the younger half-brother of David (and star of The Hardy Boys\/Nancy Drew Mysteries TV series),covered songs by David Bowie, The Who, The Animals, Ian Hunter, Talking Heads, and more. Cool songs. Rundgren and Utopia back young Shaun. As mind-blowing <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/shaun-cassidys-wasp-credit-where-credits-due\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[61,264,66,309],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15770"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15770\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}