April 12 Marks David Cassidy Birthday, A New Plaque and Bench Installed in Congress Park  

SARATOGA SPRINGS — A new public fixture in Congress Park celebrates the memory of David Cassidy. Saturday marks what would have been his 75th birthday.  

Cassidy was born April 12, 1950, and was a longtime Saratoga Springs visitor and eventual resident.  The popular singer and horseman died in November 2017 at the age of 67. 

Cassidy charted more than one dozen Top 100 hits in the early 1970s, both as a solo artist and in his role as a member of The Partridge Family – whose TV series aired on ABC from 1970 to 1974. 

For several decades, Cassidy was a frequent summer visitor to Saratoga Springs – the city in general and the racecourse specifically, purchasing his first yearling at Fasig-Tipton in 1974. Cassidy eventually purchased a house in the Spa City in 2001.

“This is my favorite place in the world, I played here in ‘72, ‘73, ‘74,” Cassidy said about the Saratoga Performing Arts Center, during a 2008 fundraising gala at the adjacent Hall of Springs. 

The bench fixed with a plaque honoring Cassidy stands in Congress Park just behind the Canfield Casino.  It was recently commissioned by Shelley Murphy and installed and reads, in part: In Loving Memory of David Bruce Cassidy.