american pop culture in those years, often gracing the cover of teen magazines, sometimes all of them. tonight, the news that he has died of an organ failure at 67. cnn s stephanie elam looks back at david cassidy s incredible career. it s one of those nights reporter: david cassidy was the ultimate teenage idol. known for his role as keith in the 1970s hit tv series the partridge family, his fresh face, wide-eyed charm captured the hearts of millions of girls worldwide. you re taking auto shop? me, too. reporter: the partridge family, about a family in a rock n roll band, gave cassidy a national audience for his own music. i think i love you, the show s first single, topped the bill board 100 in 1970 and sold over 5 million copies. i was always a musician, it
a new study from a team of london researchererings is the most comprehensive analysis ever attempted for american pop music. they ran every single that charted on the bill board 100 over the past 50 years to search for a recurring trend. they found that american pop music s evolution has been defined by distinct moments of musical revolution and that america s most influential revolution eclipsed even the 1960s british rock and roll invasion led by bands like the beatles and the rolling stones. according to the researchers the explosion in popularity of hip-hop in 1991 was the single most important event that has shaped the musical structure of the american charts. of course that s probably old news to long-time hip-hop heads but what makes the study unusual is it looked at digital analysis rather than stories and history to uncover the cultural influences of pop music.
we ll hear from that later. let s start off with a rocking duothat gets people on the feet. it is topped the bill board 100 from the sixth avenue fox news stage. heart of manhattan. trace atkins honky tonk badonka donk. it is a tender love song. it really is. that s what i am talking about. shooting over the eight ball. at the wall. feeting 10 feet tall. here she. hope she doesn t.
we ll hear from that later. let s start off with a rocking duothat gets people on the feet. it is topped the bill board 100 from the sixth avenue fox news stage. heart of manhattan. trace atkins honky tonk badonka donk. it is a tender love song. it really is. that s what i am talking about. shooting over the eight ball. at the wall. feeting 10 feet tall. here she. hope she doesn t.
we ll hear from that later. let s start off with a rocking duothat gets people on the feet. it is topped the bill board 100 from the sixth avenue fox news stage. heart of manhattan. trace atkins honky tonk badonka donk. it is a tender love song. it really is. that s what i am talking about. shooting over the eight ball. at the wall. feeting 10 feet tall. here she. hope she doesn t.