 | Bobby Darin sings "Mack the Knife"
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Bobby Darin performs his classic hit, "Mack The Knife," to a live audience. Performance clip taken from Bobby Darin "Seeing Is Believing" (DVD). DVD available everywhere at Record Stores and DVD Retailers. Order direct online from HYENA RECORDS @ www.HyenaRecords.com.
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 | Bobby Darin sings "Beyond the Sea"
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Bobby Darin performs his classic hit, "Beyond The Sea," to a live audience. Performance clip taken from Bobby Darin "Seeing Is Believing" (DVD). DVD available everywhere at Record Stores and DVD Retailers. Order direct online from HYENA RECORDS @ www.HyenaRecords.com.
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 | Bobby Darin - Beyond the sea
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Bobby Darin
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 | Dream Lover - Bobby Darin
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Cruisin' Oldies
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 | Bobby Darin - Mack the Knife
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Bobby Darin - Mack the Knife
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 | Bobby Darin "If I Were A Carpenter" Live 1973
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This is from a TV special recorded 9 months before Bobby Darin's death at age 37. He jokes around and then sings a spellbinding version of "If I Were a Carpenter."
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 | Bobby Darin - Splish Splash
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Bobby Darin was born to a poor, working-class Italian-American family in the Bronx, New York. His father disappeared a few months before he was born. It was the height of the Great Depression, and he once remarked that his crib was a cardboard box, later a dresser drawer. As a result, his mother had to accept Home Relief to take care of her infant son. It was not until he was an adult that he learned that the woman he thought to be his sister Nina, 14 years his senior, was in fact his mother, and the woman he thought to be his mother was his grandmother. He never knew the identity of his birth father.
An outstanding student, with a genius-level IQ, Darin graduated from the prestigious Bronx High School of Science and then went on to attend Hunter College on a scholarship. Wanting a career in the New York theater, he dropped out of college to play small nightclubs around the city with a musical combo. In the resort area of the Catskill Mountains, he was both a busboy and an entertainer.
In 1956, his agent negotiated a contract for him with Decca Records, where Bill Haley & His Comets had risen to fame. However, this was a time when rock and roll was still in its infancy and the number of capable record producers and arrangers in the field was extremely limited.
A member of the now famous Brill Building gang of once struggling songwriters who later found success, Darin was introduced to then up-and-coming singer Connie Francis. Bobby's manager arranged for Darin to help write several songs for Connie in order to help jump-start her singing career. Initially the two artists couldn't see eye to eye on potential material, but after several weeks Bobby and Connie developed a romantic interest in one another. Purportedly, Connie had a very strict Italian father who would separate the couple whenever possible. When Connie's father learned that Bobby had suggested the two lovers elope after one of Connie's shows, he ran Darin out of the building while waving a gun telling Bobby to never see his daughter again.
Bobby saw Connie only two more times after this happened, once when the two were scheduled to sing together for a television show and again later when Connie was spotlighted on the tv series This Is Your Life. To date, Connie has said that not marrying Bobby was the biggest mistake of her life.
Darin left Decca to sign with Atlantic Records (ATCO), where he wrote and arranged music for himself and others. There, after three mediocre recordings, his career took off in 1958 when he wrote and recorded "Splish Splash". The song became an instant hit, selling more than a million copies.[6] "Splish Splash" was written with radio DJ Murray Murray the K Kaufman, who bet that Darin could not write a song that started out with the words "Splish Splash, I was takin' a bath", as suggested by Murray's mother. On a snow bound night in early 1958, Darin went in the studio alone and recorded a demo of "Splish Splash". They eventually shared writing credits with her. This was followed by more hits recorded in the same successful style.
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 | Bobby Darin - Simple Song of Freedom
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Bobby Darin cramped everything into the mere 37 years he lived. He was a multi-talented man who played the drums, piano, harmonica, guitar and what not. He was a successful actor, energetic entertainer, and a superb singer. Of course he is known mostly for his interpretations of "Mack The Knife", "Beyond The Sea", his early hits "Splish-Splash" and "Dream Lover". But among the many songs he wrote, arranged and produced, he also wrote and recorded great folk songs. He did a great version of Tim Hardin's "If I Was A Carpenter", his last real hit. After the assasinations of Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert Kennedy, who's campaign he promoted, he wrote more politically motivated songs. They wouldn't become hits, but they are still great songs.
"Simple Song of Freedom" is just that and unfortunately has lost none of it's topicality. Seems like politicians haven't learned much since the 1960s. This is taken from a 1970's TV Special "A Night With Bobby Darin" and can be found on the DVD of the same name (Umbrella Entertainment), which also has a nice 43 min. biography.
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 | Bobby Darin * MULTIPLICATION *
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Bobby Darin
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 | Bobby Darin sings "Got My Mojo Working"
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Bobby Darin performs the song "Got My Mojo Working" to a live audience. Performance clip taken from Bobby Darin "Seeing Is Believing" (DVD). DVD available everywhere at Record Stores and DVD Retailers. Order direct online from HYENA RECORDS @ www.HyenaRecords.com.
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 | Bobby Darin + Sandra Dee's courtship
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A sequence about the courtship and marriage of Bobby Darin & Sandra Dee from my A&E Biography on Bobby Darin. A note of trivia: the very brief home movies of Bobby and Sandra on the set of "Come September" as seen from far above were actually shot by their co-star Rock Hudson.
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