Once " I Think I Love You " became a hit, Cassidy began work on solo albums as well.

Cassidy also became an instant drawcard with spectacular sellout concerts successes in major arenas around the world.

Her real-life twenty-year-old stepson David Cassidy, who was an unknown actor at the time, played Shirley Partridge's eldest son, Keith, and became the hottest teen idol in the country.

'" Cassidy discussed his relationship with his stepmother on the show: " She wasn't my mother, and I can be very open, and we can speak, and we became very close friends.

David Cassidy, Jack's only child from his first marriage to actress Evelyn Ward, became her stepson.

The 1969 film Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid featured Thomas performing the Burt Bacharach / Hal David song " Raindrops Keep Fallin ' on My Head ", which won the Academy Award for best original song that year, became the number one song on the Billboard Hot 100 in January 1970.

" Hey Deanie " also became a Top 10 hit for Shaun Cassidy.

Cassidy was re-elected with an increased majority in the 1975 election, in which the NDP under Stephen Lewis reduced the Conservatives to a minority government and became the official opposition in the legislature.

The Hopalong Cassidy lunch kit, or " Hoppy ," quickly became Aladdin ’ s cash cow.

Some also see a resemblance between Nevada Smith and William Boyd, who became famous as Hopalong Cassidy.

As a member of X-Force, James became more calm and controlled and struck up a close friendship with his teammate Theresa Rourke Cassidy.

On June 24, 1949, Hopalong Cassidy became the first network Western television series.

She became the second female solo artist to have 3 consecutive UK # 1 albums, after Madonna achieved this in 2000, however it could be said that Eva holds this record solo, because one of Madonna's albums was the soundtrack to Evita which featured other vocalists as well as her, whereas Cassidy holds the full credit for all three of her albums.

On 26 October 2011 he succeeded former Newcastle United star Tommy Cassidy and became player manager of Whitby Town F. C.

* Black Manta also became a part of the Legion of Doom in Challenge of the Super Friends voiced by Ted Cassidy.

Cassidy founded the band Spirit and Kelley became a member of his cousin Chris Hillman's band the Byrds in 1968, and played on their seminal Sweetheart of the Rodeo album.

He then became a second unit director, working on numerous majors films such as Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid ( 1969 ), Patton ( 1970 ), and The Man Who Would Be King ( 1975 ).

After The Archies, produced by Filmation, became a huge pop hit, Hanna-Barbera started releasing several cartoon TV shows with the adventures of rock bands, such as Josie and the Pussycats, The Cattanooga Cats, The Impossibles, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kids, Jabberjaw, and others.

The song became a top forty Hot 100 hit again in 1977 when Shaun Cassidy released his cover as a single.

Michael Lloyd became the Vice President of A & R at MGM, aged 20, in 1969, and went on to win a Grammy Award with Lou Rawls, to produce hits for the Osmonds, Shaun Cassidy and Leif Garrett, and to produce the best-selling soundtrack to Dirty Dancing.

As a child, Cassidy took to tumbling, competing and eventually became a cheerleader for the California Flyers, a competitive team.

While in elementary school, Cassidy became interested in show business and participated in several community theatre productions beginning at the age of 7, and as a teenager studied with an acting coach.

Cassidy became Chief of Engineers on July 1, 1965.

* 1949 – The first television western, Hopalong Cassidy, is aired on NBC starring William Boyd.

* June 24 – The first television western, Hopalong Cassidy, airs on NBC.

The first observation of di-positronium molecules — molecules consisting of two positronium atoms — was reported on 12 September 2007 by David Cassidy and Allen Mills from University of California at Riverside.

* Paul Adam's Escape from Shadow Island, first published in 2009, features young escapologist Max Cassidy.

He has the distinction of being the first actor to portray outlaw Butch Cassidy in the film Three Outlaws, opposite Alan Hale, Jr. as the Sundance Kid.

His 2001 album Then And Now went platinum internationally and returned Cassidy to the Top 5 of the UK album charts for the first time since 1974.

The series pilot first aired as a two-hour episode of another show, Police Story, which featured Cassidy playing an undercover police officer.

Dr. William Cassidy, a Toronto medical doctor, was ordained as the Christian and Missionary Alliance's first missionary preacher.

Christie starred in two other films released in 1965, first appearing as Daisy Battles in Young Cassidy, a biopic of Irish playwright Seán O ' Casey, co-directed by Jack Cardiff and ( uncredited ) John Ford.

Shortly after production on the first album and TV show began David Cassidy was promoted by Wes Farrell to lead singer.

In 2004, Shirley returned to Broadway in a revival of 42nd Street, portraying diva " Dorothy Brock " opposite her son Patrick Cassidy — the first time a mother and son were known to star together on Broadway.

Jones was friends with her late co-star Gordon MacRae and his ex-wife Sheila, and he was named godfather to her first son, Shaun Cassidy.

Leon Cassidy of the Pretzel Amusement Ride Company patented the first single-rail electric dark ride in 1928.

The trio began recording together, but their first single, " Rock Me Baby ", due to be released at the end of 1972, was cancelled due to the release of the song by David Cassidy.

Cooder first attracted attention in the 1960s, playing with Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band, after previously having worked with Taj Mahal and Ed Cassidy in the Rising Sons.

The word butch, meaning " tough kid " may have been coined by abbreviating the word butcher, as first noted in George Cassidy's nickname, Butch Cassidy.

Teams from this era featured standouts such as Frank Tripucka, Reggie Whitehouse, Ken Carpenter, Mike Cassidy, player-coach Frank Filchock and Cookie Gilchrist who was the first Roughrider player to rush for 1, 000 yards in 1958.

Alongside the X-Men, he first fights his cousin Black Tom Cassidy and the Juggernaut.

Though each of the X-Men formed some sort of relationship with the " Widow " MacTaggert, Moira and Sean Cassidy ( Banshee ) hit it off immediately, forming an on-and-off relationship that would last for the remainder of her life ( ironically, before meeting her, Sean had assumed she would be " eighty years old, ugly as sin " and received the shock of his life when he saw the attractive young lady for the first time ).

The album included collaboration with Michael Edwards, Patrick Cassidy, Pieter Bourke and James Orr and was the first release to come from Gerrard Records.

In 1950, Aladdin Industries created the first children's lunch box based on a television show, Hopalong Cassidy.

His first attempt was Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid with McQueen starring alongside Paul Newman but 20th Century Fox did not want Foster as part of the deal.

A notable attendance record was set in the early 1970s by David Cassidy, in his first tour of Great Britain in 1973, when he sold out six performances in one weekend.