Shaun Cassidy needed to relearn his personal songs for comeback tour after 45 years

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Former teen idol Shaun Cassidy is embarking on his first main tour in 45 years.

The 66-year-old son of Oscar-winning actress Shirley Jones, 91, and the late Tony Award-winning actor Jack Cassidy rose to fame within the mid-to-late Nineteen Seventies as a pop star after following within the footsteps of his late half brother, David Cassidy.

On the identical time, Cassidy additionally discovered success as an actor, starring as Joe Hardy within the hit ABC collection "The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries."

Nevertheless, he stepped again from the highlight many years in the past to deal with a profession behind the scenes as a tv author and producer. Now, Cassidy is returning to the general public eye as he launches his first enviornment tour since 1980.

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Shaun Cassidy is launching his first main tour in 45 years. ( John Atashian/Getty Pictures; Brad Elterman/Getty Pictures)

Throughout an interview with People magazine, Cassidy revealed that he has been brushing up on his guitar expertise and relearning his personal hits as he prepares to hit the highway as soon as once more.

"I actually needed to take guitar classes. I hadn't performed guitar in so lengthy," he stated. "I needed to relearn songs I had written. I did not know play them."

For his upcoming tour, Cassidy informed the outlet that he's taking the recent problem of taking part in bass as a substitute of guitar. He additionally shared that his old songs really feel new to him after his decadeslong hiatus from performing.

"As a result of I have never been singing them for 40 years, they are not useless to me. They really feel new, and I am solely singing the songs I actually preferred again then that really feel applicable to me singing now," Cassidy stated. "I can sing higher than I sang after I was 20 as a result of I have never been singing. I believe I did not burn my voice out for 40 years."

Cassidy's 50-city "The Highway to Us Tour," the longest of his profession, will kick off Sept. 13 on the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville, Tennessee. The singer informed Those that the tour will span his full profession, that includes traditional hits, new music and private tales.

The previous teen idol admitted that he needed to take guitar classes and relearn his personal songs. ( Brad Elterman/FilmMagic)

The setlist will embody Cassidy's cowl of "Da Doo Ron Ron," initially a 1963 music by the woman group The Crystals. "Da Doo Ron Ron" was the primary single launched from Cassidy's self-titled debut album in 1977. The music turned Cassidy's first main hit, topping the Billboard Scorching 100 chart and serving to him earn a Grammy Award nomination for greatest new artist.

Nevertheless, Cassidy informed Those that "Da Doo Ron Ron" wasn't his selection for the one that might launch his music profession.

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"I preferred the music. It was my concept to document it," Cassidy stated.

"However that wasn't the music I wished to be the primary single off my album," he continued. "I did not get a vote, and I suppose they had been proper. It went to No. 1. It was a giant document, however there have been like three or 4 different songs I'd've most well-liked or chosen. And by the best way, that is been the case with each document I’ve made."

Cassidy's tour will kick off on Sept. 13 on the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville. (Emma McIntyre/Getty Pictures for TCM)

Regardless of being raised in a show business family, Cassidy admitted that he was by no means actually comfy within the limelight throughout his time as a teen heartthrob.

"I've by no means loved being a public determine. I do not like all the eye. I am mainly an introvert. I do not actually like being well-known," he informed Individuals. "However the one factor extra ridiculous than being well-known is being previously well-known, since you're nonetheless well-known, however lots of people do not essentially know why anymore. And if it had been as much as me, I might want neither of these issues."

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"For years, I used to be like, I do not need to [tour] as a result of I will simply be making an attempt to duplicate some model of myself at 20, which I all the time thought can be embarrassing and why strive?" Cassidy stated.

"However I found, and the viewers informed me this, that I did not want to do this as a result of I had really all these different playing cards I might play," he added. "Now I am a storyteller."

Cassidy has labored as a TV author and producer for many years. (Emma McIntyre/Getty Pictures for TCM)

By the mid-Nineties, Cassidy had shifted nearly fully to behind the scenes in Hollywood. For the previous few many years, he has labored as a tv author and producer, launching exhibits together with "American Gothic," "Roar" and "New Amsterdam."

Whereas talking with Individuals, Cassidy acknowledged that the trajectory of his profession was uncommon.

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"It is a bizarre résumé," he stated. "I do not know anyone else that performs the Houston Astrodome for 55,000 folks, says, ‘Goodnight and see you quickly,’ after which would not present up once more for 40 years, however that is form of what I did."

"I believe I am the luckiest particular person on the planet that I can do this," Cassidy added.

Ashley Hume is an leisure author for Fox Information Digital. Story suggestions might be despatched to ashley.hume@fox.com and on Twitter: @ashleyhume