Home is Where the Heart Is was the second album released on RCA Records by David Cassidy

David Cassidy

David Bruce Cassidy is an American actor, singer, songwriter and guitarist. He is best known for his role as the character of Keith Partridge in the 1970s musical/sitcom The Partridge Family. He was one of pop culture's most celebrated teen idols, enjoying a successful pop career in the 1970s, and...

. It was released in 1976 and was produced by Cassidy and Bruce Johnston

Bruce Johnston

Bruce Arthur Johnston is a member of The Beach Boys and a songwriter, remembered especially for composing "I Write the Songs". Johnston was not one of the original members of the band...

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The album is notable for a strong composing contribution from Gerry Beckley

Gerry Beckley

Gerald Linford "Gerry" Beckley is a founding member of the band America.Beckley was born to an American father, and an English mother. He began playing the piano at the age of three and the guitar a few years later. By 1962, Beckley was playing guitar in The Vanguards, an instrumental surf music...

 of the band America

America (band)

America is an English-American folk rock band that originally included members Gerry Beckley, Dewey Bunnell and Dan Peek. The three members were barely out of their teens when they became a musical sensation during 1972, scoring #1 hits and winning a Grammy for best new musical artist...

. Beckley also takes a few lines of lead vocals. Some tracks from this album are compiled on the 1996 collection, When I'm a Rock 'n' Roll Star

When I'm a Rock 'n' Roll Star

When I'm a Rock 'n' Roll Star is an album by David Cassidy. Released on Razor and Tie Records in 1996 as RE 2117-2, it is a compilation of songs drawn from his three RCA Records albums recorded between 1975 and 1977: The Higher They Climb The Harder They Fall , Home Is Where the Heart Is , and...

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Track listing

1. "On Fire" (David Cassidy, Bill House)
2. "Damned If This Ain't Love" (David Cassidy)
3. "January" (David Paton
   David Paton
   David Paton is a Scottish bass and guitar player, most notably with three different bands: Pilot, The Alan Parsons Project, and Camel. He has also worked as a solo artist, session musician, and sometime vocalist...
   
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4. "A Fool In Love"
5. "Tomorrow" (Paul McCartney
   Paul McCartney
   Sir James Paul McCartney, MBE, Hon RAM, FRCM is an English musician, singer-songwriter and composer. Formerly of The Beatles and Wings , McCartney is listed in Guinness World Records as the "most successful musician and composer in popular music history", with 60 gold discs and sales of 100...
   
   , Linda McCartney
   Linda McCartney
   Linda Louise McCartney, Lady McCartney was an American photographer, musician and animal rights activist. Her father and mother were Lee Eastman and Louise Sara Lindner Eastman....
   
   )
6. "Breakin' Down Again" (David Cassidy, Bill House)
7. "Run and Hide"
8. "Take This Heart" (David Cassidy, Gerry Beckley
   Gerry Beckley
   Gerald Linford "Gerry" Beckley is a founding member of the band America.Beckley was born to an American father, and an English mother. He began playing the piano at the age of three and the guitar a few years later. By 1962, Beckley was playing guitar in The Vanguards, an instrumental surf music...
   
   )
9. "Goodbye Blues"
10. "Bedtime"

Personnel

• David Cassidy - Guitar, Percussion, Keyboards, Vocals
• King Errisson - Percussion
• Jesse Ed Davis
  Jesse Ed Davis
  Jesse Edwin Davis was an American guitarist. He was well regarded as a session artist. His death in 1988 is attributed to a drug overdose.-Biography:...
  
   - Guitar
• Stephen Ross - Keyboards
• Bruce Johnston
  Bruce Johnston
  Bruce Arthur Johnston is a member of The Beach Boys and a songwriter, remembered especially for composing "I Write the Songs". Johnston was not one of the original members of the band...
  
   - Keyboards, Vocals
• Carl Wilson
  Carl Wilson
  Carl Dean Wilson was an American rock and roll singer and guitarist, best known as a founding member, lead guitarist and sometime lead vocalist of The Beach Boys...
  
   - Vocals
• Jim Keltner
  Jim Keltner
  James Lee "Jim" Keltner is an American drummer known primarily for his session work. He has contributed to the work of many well-known artists...
  
   - Drums
• Richie Furay
  Richie Furay
  Richie Furay is an American singer, songwriter, and Rock & Roll Hall of Fame member who is best known for forming the bands Buffalo Springfield with Stephen Stills, Neil Young, Bruce Palmer, and Dewey Martin, and Poco with Jim Messina, Rusty Young, George Grantham and Randy Meisner...
  
   - Vocals
• Jim Gordon
  Jim Gordon (musician)
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   - Drums
• Ned Doheny - Guitar
• Cyrus Faryar - Vocals
• Philip Austin - Vocals
• Gerry Beckley
  Gerry Beckley
  Gerald Linford "Gerry" Beckley is a founding member of the band America.Beckley was born to an American father, and an English mother. He began playing the piano at the age of three and the guitar a few years later. By 1962, Beckley was playing guitar in The Vanguards, an instrumental surf music...
  
   - Vocals
• Dewey Bunnell - mVocals
• Homer Diltz - Harp
• Ricky Fataar
  Ricky Fataar
  Ricky Fataar is a South African multi-instrumentalist of Malay descent, who has performed as both a drummer, and a guitarist. He gained fame as an actor in the comedic television movie, The Rutles: All You Need Is Cash, a spoof on the actual history of The Beatles, and for his performance as a...
  
   - Drums
• Bryan Garofalo - Bass, Guitar
• Emory Gordy, Jr.
  Emory Gordy, Jr.
  Emory Gordy, Jr., born December 25, 1944, in Atlanta, Georgia, is an American musician and music producer. Since 1989, he has been married to country music artist Patty Loveless. Gordy was inducted into the Georgia Music Hall of Fame in 1992...
  
   - Bass
• Gloria Grinel - Vocals
• Tom Hensley - Keyboards
• Kenny Hinkle - Vocals
• John Hobbs - Keyboards, Vocals
• Bill House - Guitar, Steel Guitar, Vocals
• Stan House - Drums
• Steve House - Vocals
• Bill Hudson - Vocals
• Brett Hudson - Vocals
• Mark Hudson - Vocals
• Jon Joyce - Vocals
• Howard Kaylan
  Howard Kaylan
  Howard Kaylan is an American rock and roll musician, best known as a founding member and lead singer of the 1960s band, The Turtles, and "Eddie" of 1970's rock band Flo & Eddie.-Early days:...
  
   - Vocals
• Danny "Kootch" Kortchmar - Guitar
• John Raines - Percussion
• Harry Robinson - Banjo
• Jim Seiter - Percussion, Vocals
• Curtis Stone - Bass
• Trish Turner - Vocals
• Ron Tutt - Drums
• Mark Volman
  Mark Volman
  Mark Volman is an American rock and roll singer, best known as a founding member of the 1960s band The Turtles. At times during his career he has used the pseudonym "The Phlorescent Leech"...
  
   - Vocals
• Willie Weeks
  Willie Weeks
  Willie Weeks is an American bass guitarist. He has gained fame performing with famous musicians in a wide variety of genres. He has been one of the most in-demand session musicians throughout his career. Weeks has also gained notoriety touring with many of rock's heavyweights throughout his career...
  
   - Bass
• Gary Mallaber
  Gary Mallaber
  Gary Mallaber is a Los Angeles session drummer, percussionist and singer. He got his start playing drums in a band from Buffalo, New York, known as Raven....
  
   - Drums
• Leland Sklar
  Leland Sklar
  Leland "Lee" Bruce Sklar is an American musician, singer-songwriter and film score composer. A prominent bass guitarist, Sklar has contributed to thousands of albums as a session musician...
  
   - Bass
• Steve Douglas
  Steve Douglas (saxophonist)
  Steven Douglas Kreisman , better known as Steve Douglas, was an American saxophonist, flautist and clarinetist. Douglas is best known as a Los Angeles session musician, a member of The Wrecking Crew, who worked with Phil Spector, Brian Wilson and The Beach Boys...
  
  - Saxophone