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Infobox musical artist | name = Bobby Darin| image = Bobby Darin 1959.JPG| image_size = 220|caption=Darin in 1959.| landscape = No| background = solo_singer| birth_name = Walden Robert Cassotto| alias =| Born = birth date|1936|5|14|mf=y The Bronx, New York , U.S.| Died = death date and age |mf=yes|1973|12|20|1936|5|14 Los Angeles, California , U.S.| Spouse = marriage| Sandra Dee |1960|1967| instrument = Singer|Vocals , guitar , piano , drum kit|drums , harmonica , xylophone | genre = Big band , rock and roll , traditional pop|pop , American folk music|folk | occupation = Musician , singer-songwriter , actor | years_active = 1956–1973| label = Decca Records|Decca , Atco Records|Atco , Capitol Records|Capitol , Brunswick Records|Brunswick , Atlantic Records|Atlantic , Motown Records|Motown Bobby Darin (May 14, 1936& nbsp;– December 20, 1973), born Walden Robert Cassotto , was an United States|American singer, actor and musician.
Darin performed in a range of music genres, including pop, rock, jazz, folk and country. Although unknown to the public, his health was dangerously fragile and this motivated him to succeed within the limited lifetime he feared he would, and ultimately did, have.
In 1960 after romancing singer Connie Francis , and being run out of the house by her strict Italian father, with a shotgun, breaking her heart, Darin married " Gidget " actress Sandra Dee , whom he met while making his first film Come September (1961). They made a few more movies together at Universal Studios that were moderately successful. They had one son, Dodd Mitchell Darin (also known as Morgan Mitchell Darin) before divorcing in 1967.
He was also an actor, singer/songwriter and music business entrepreneur. His wish for a legacy was "to be remembered as a human being and as a great performer."cite web|url= http://www.bobbydarin.com/ |title=How he wanted to be remembered |publisher=Bobbydarin.com |date=1997-08-07 |accessdate=2010-09-03 Among his many other contributions, he became a goodwill ambassador for the American Heart Association .
Early years
Bobby Darin was born in The Bronx to a poor, working-class family of Italian descent. The person he believed to be his father (who was actually his grandfather, Saverio Antonio Cassotto) died in jail a few months before he was born. It was the height of the Great Depression , and Darin once remarked that his crib was a cardboard box, then later a dresser drawer. He was initially raised by his Anglo-American mother Vivian Fern (Walden) Cassotto, who was called Polly, and his sister Giovannina Juliette "Nina" Cassotto, subsisting on Home Relief until Nina later married and started a family with her new husband, Charlie Maffia. It was not until he was 32-years old, in 1968, when Darin, preparing to play a nightclub in New Jersey, was told by Nina, 19 years his senior, that she was, in fact, his birth mother, and that Polly, whom he thought was his mother, was really his grandmother. http://www.thebiographychannel.co.uk/biography_story/229:106/1/Bobby_Darin.htm Biography: Bobby Darin, The Biography Channel. Retrieved August 12, 2007. Also mentioned in the Bobby Darin episode of the Biography series. Nina refused to tell him the identity of his real father, other than that his birth father had no idea Nina was pregnant, and thus never knew that Nina gave birth to his son. Though Nina claimed she told him for her fear of the truth coming out by opponents if he considered entering politics, Darin would never forgive her for this deception and his remaining 5 years of life after this shocking revelation would never be the same again. Polly mothered him well, despite her own medical history resulting in her addiction to morphine . It was Polly who took the young Bobby to what was left of the old vaudeville circuit in New York and places like the Bronx Opera House, and the RKO Jefferson in Manhattan, where he received his first show business inspiration, and where he saw performers like Sophie Tucker , whom he loved. Bobby Darin, A Man in a Hurry a BBC Radio2 programme December 2008 presented by Tim Rice
Darin was frail and sickly as an infant and, beginning at the age of 8, was stricken with recurring bouts of rheumatic fever , an illness that left him with a seriously weakened heart. Overhearing a doctor tell his mother he would be lucky to reach the age of 16, Darin lived with the constant knowledge that his life might be short, which further motivated him to use his talents. He was driven by his poverty and illness to make something of his life and, with his innate talent for music , by the time he was a teenager he could play several instruments, including piano , drum kit|drums and guitar . He later added harmonica and xylophone . Darin's best friend during childhood was fellow singer, Dick Roman. Roman, who as a teen worked for the Borden milk company, got Darin his first job there as well. They worked there as office boys for $28 a week.
An outstanding student, Darin graduated from the prestigious Bronx High School of Science and 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 nightclub s around the city with a musical combo. In the resort area of the Catskill Mountains , he was both a busboy and an entertainer.1st paragraph of Biography sketch. For the most part, the teenage Darin was a comedic drummer and an ambitious but unpolished vocalist.
Music career
Allegedly adopting the name Bobby Darin after seeing a Chinese restaurant sign reading "MANDARIN DUCK", what really moved things along for Darin was his songwriting partnership, formed in 1955 with fellow Bronx High School of Science student Don Kirshner , who later became a music promoter known as "The Man With the Golden Ear", and launched the careers of Neil Diamond , Carole King , and The Monkees . 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. Citation needed|date=July 2011 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 Francis in order to help jump-start her 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. Purportedly, Francis had a very strict Italian father who would separate the couple whenever possible. When Francis's father, who hated Darin intensely, learned that Darin had suggested the two lovers elope after one of her shows, he ran Darin out of the building while waving a gun and telling him never to see his daughter again. Citation needed|date=July 2011 Darin saw Francis only twice more - once when the two were scheduled to sing together on a television show, and again when Francis was spotlighted on the TV series This Is Your Life . Francis has said that not marrying Darin was the biggest mistake of her life.Autobiography ''Who's Sorry Now'' by Connie Francis She alluded to the title of "My First Real Love" (a Darin-Kirshner song she'd recorded and on which Darin had played drums) when she said, "Well, he was my first real love and I never stopped loving him all my life." Bobby Darin, A Man in a Hurry BBC Radio 2 Francis said too that she and Darin would sometimes go to the Apollo Theater to see artists like James Brown and Ray Charles & mdash;'We were the only white people in the audience' -- and when Darin first recorded for Decca early in 1956 it was with a piece of black music, pioneered by the Louisiana songster Leadbelly , " Rock Island Line (song)|Rock Island Line "& mdash;though the immediate inspiration was Lonnie Donegan 's skiffle version. He sang it that year on the CBS program Stage Show (TV series)|Stage Show & mdash;his TV debut& mdash;with the lyrics written on the palms of his hands in case he forgot them... which he did. But the songs recorded at Decca did very little business.
Darin left Decca to sign with Atlantic Records (ATCO), where he wrote and arranged music for himself and others. Songs he recorded, like Harry Warren 's I Found a Million Dollar Baby , were sung with an Elvis Presley|Elvis -like attack, but Darin was not fully equipped to be a teen idol: he worried about his appearance, he was losing his hair, and told Steve Blauner that when he looked in the mirror he saw "an ugly, small Italian man". Yet many attested that on stage he had "absolute charisma". There was talk of releasing Darin from his contract until Atlantic's Turkish-American co-founder Ahmet Ertegun stepped in. Darin's career took off in 1958 when he wrote and recorded " Splish Splash (song)|Splish Splash ", with Ertegun producing. The song was an instant hit, selling more than a million copies.cite web|url= http://www.bobbydarin.net/sn_041058.html|title=The Splish Splash Session - Session Notes by Dik de Heer, BobbyDarin.net/BobbyDarin.com|publisher=Bobbydarin.net|date=1958-04-10|accessdate=2010-09-03 "Splish Splash" was written with radio DJ Murray " Murray the K " Kaufman, who bet Darin that he could not write a song that started out with the words, "Splish Splash, I was takin' a bath", as suggested by Kaufman's mother. On a snow-bound night in early 1958, Darin went into the studio alone and recorded a demo of "Splish Splash", which featured the sound of Darin taking a bath, and became the first 8-track recording on vinyl. Darin and Kaufman eventually shared writing credit with Kaufman's mother. This was followed by more hits recorded in the same style. Citation needed|date=July 2011 In 1959, Darin recorded the self-penned " Dream Lover ", a ballad that became a multi-million seller. With it came financial success and the ability to demand more artistic control|creative control . Some at the label wanted a Fats Domino -ish album to follow, but Darin's devoted publicist and advisor Harriet "Hesh" Wasser campaigned for a "great, swinging, standard album"; as she later told it, she and Darin were walking down 57th street when Darin told her, "Hesh, don't worry, you'll get your album". His next single, " Mack the Knife ", was the standard from Kurt Weill 's The Threepenny Opera|Threepenny Opera , with Darin giving the tune a vamping jazz-pop interpretation. Although Darin initially opposed releasing it as a single,cite web|url= http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc19762/m1|title=Show 13 - Big Rock Candy Mountain: Rock 'n' roll in the late fifties. Part 3& #93;: UNT Digital Library|publisher=Digital.library.unt.edu|last=Gilliland|first=John|authorlink=John Gilliland |work= Pop Chronicles |date=1969-04-27|accessdate=2010-09-03 the song went to No. 1 on the charts for nine weeks, sold two million copies, and won the Grammy Award for Record of the Year in 1960. Darin was also voted the Grammy Award for Best New Artist that year. "Mack The Knife" has since been honored with a Grammy Hall of Fame Award . Ironically, Darin's childhood friend Dick Roman (who was signed to Paramount Records) was offered "Mack The Knife" first, but turned it down because Paramount's Don Costa didn't like the fact that the song was arranged by rival Dick West. Darin followed "Mack" with " Beyond the Sea (song)|Beyond the Sea ", a jazzy English-language version of Charles Trenet|Charles Trenet's French-language|French hit song " La Mer (song)|La Mer ".
Both tracks were produced by Atlantic founders Ahmet Ertegün|Ahmet and Nesuhi Ertegün with staff producer Jerry Wexler and featured brilliant arrangements by Richard Wess. Propelled by the success of "Mack the Knife" and "Beyond the Sea", Darin became a hot commodity. He set all-time attendance records at the famed Copacabana (nightclub)|Copacabana nightclub in New York City, where it was not unusual for Darin fans to line up around the block. The Copacabana had to fill the dance floor& mdash; normally part of the performance area& mdash;with extra seating to accommodate Darin's fans. Darin also headlined at the major casino s in Las Vegas Strip|Las Vegas .
Sammy Davis Jr. , an exceptionally multi-talented and dynamic performer himself, was quoted as saying that Bobby Darin was "the only person I never wanted to follow" after seeing him perform in Las Vegas. Davis was among those who appeared on the 1959 telecast of This Is Your Life , along with George Burns and relatives and friends, that surprised and honored Darin at NBC 's Burbank, California studios. Darin had a significant role in fostering new talent. Richard Pryor , Flip Wilson and Wayne Newton opened his nightclub performances when they were virtually unknown. Early on, at the Copacabana, he insisted that black comic George Kirby be his opening act. His request was grudgingly granted by Jules Podell , the manager of the Copacabana. Citation needed|date=July 2011 In the 1960s, Darin also owned and operated a highly successful music publishing and production company (TM Music/Trio) and signed Wayne Newton to TM, giving him a song that was originally sent to Darin to record. That record went on to become Newton's breakout hit, " Danke Schoen ". He also was a mentor to Roger McGuinn , who worked for Darin at TM Music and played the 12-string guitar in Darin's nightclub band before forming The Byrds . Darin also produced Rosey Grier 's 1964 LP album|LP , Soul City , and Made in the Shade for Jimmy Boyd . Citation needed|date=July 2011 In 1962, Darin also began to write and sing country music, with hit songs including " Things (1962 song)|Things " (US #3/UK #2) (1962), " You're the Reason I'm Living " (US #3), and "18 Yellow Roses" (US #10). The latter two were on Capitol Records , which he joined in 1962 before returning to Atlantic four years later. It was in 1966 Darin had his final UK hit single with a version of Tim Hardin's " If I Were a Carpenter (song)|If I Were A Carpenter ", which peaked at #9. He performed the opening and closing songs on the soundtrack of the 1965 Walt Disney film That Darn Cat! "Things" was sung by Dean Martin in the 1967 in television|1967 TV special '' Movin' With Nancy '', starring Nancy Sinatra , which was released to home video in 2000.cite video|people=Nancy Sinatra|title=Movin' with Nancy|medium=Song listing|publisher=Image Intertainment|location=Chatsworth, CA|date=2000
Acting career
Darin became a film actor. In 1960, he appeared twice as himself in NBC 's short-lived crime drama Dan Raven , starring Skip Homeier and set on the Sunset Strip of West Hollywood, California|West Hollywood . In 1960, he was the only actor ever to have been signed to five major Hollywood film studio s. He wrote music for several films and acted in them as well. In his first major film, Come September , a romantic comedy designed to capitalize on his popularity with the teenage and young adult (psychology)|young adult audience, he co-starred with 18-year-old actress Sandra Dee . They fell in love and were married in 1960. The couple had one son, Dodd Mitchell Darin (born 1961), and later divorce d in 1967. Wanting his acting to be taken seriously, Darin took on more meaningful movie roles, and in 1962, he won the Golden Globe Award for "New Star Of The Year - Actor" for his role in Come September . http://www.goldenglobes.org/browse/member/28453 The following year (1963) he was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for "Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama" (Best actor) in Pressure Point (film)|Pressure Point .
In 1963, Darin was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role as a post-traumatic stress disorder|shell-shocked soldier in Captain Newman, M.D. . At the Cannes Film Festival , where his records& mdash;in particular "Beyond the Sea"& mdash;brought him a wide following, he won the French Film Critics Award for best actor.
Later years
quote box | quote="Now my attitude is very simple: I must do what artistically pleases me."|source=Bobby Darin, 1967 Pop Chronicles interview.Darin's musical output became more " folk music|folky " as the 1960s progressed and he became more politically active. In 1966, he had another big hit record, but this time with folksinger Tim Hardin 's " If I Were a Carpenter (song)|If I Were a Carpenter ", adding another style to his vast repertoire. The song secured Darin's return to the Top 40|Top 10 after a two-year absence. Jim (Roger) McGuinn, the future leader of the Byrds, was part of his performing band in the early 1960s. Darin traveled with Robert Kennedy and worked on the politician's 1968 presidential campaign. He was with Kennedy the day he traveled to Los Angeles on June 4, 1968, for the California primary, and was at the Ambassador Hotel later that night when Kennedy was assassinated. Darin was devastated. Citation needed|date=July 2011Darin sold his house and most of his possessions and lived in seclusion in a trailer near Big Sur for nearly a year. Coming back to Los Angeles in 1969, Darin started another record company, Direction Records , putting out folk and protest music. He wrote the very popular "Simple Song of Freedom" in 1969. This song was recorded by Tim Hardin, who sang only three out of the four verses of the song. He said of his first Direction album, "The purpose of Direction Records is to seek out statement-makers. The album is solely composed of compositions designed to reflect my thoughts on the turbulent aspects of modern society." http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/b/bobbydarin314910.html dead link|date=September 2010 During this time, he was billed under the name "Bob Darin", grew a mustache , and stopped wearing a hairpiece . Within two years, however, all of this ceased. At the beginning of the 1970s, he continued to act and to record, including several albums with Motown Records and a couple of films. In January 1971, he underwent his first heart surgery in an attempt to correct some of the heart damage he had lived with since childhood. He spent most of the year recovering from the surgery. Citation needed|date=July 2011 In 1972, he starred in his own television variety show on NBC , The Bobby Darin Amusement Company , which ran until his death in 1973. Darin married Andrea Yeager in June 1973. He made TV guest appearances and remained a top draw at Las Vegas, where, owing to his poor health, he was often administered oxygen after his performances. Citation needed|date=July 2011 Darin was an enthusiastic chess player.Cite web|title=Bobby Darin & Terry Kellman|publisher=bobbydarin.net |url= http://www.bobbydarin.net/kellman.html|accessdate=2011-01-08 His television show included an occasional segment in which he would explain a chess move.Cite web|title=Bobby Darin's Last Shows| publisher = tvparty.com|url= http://www.tvparty.com/darin.html|accessdate = 2011-01-08 He arranged with the United States Chess Federation to sponsor a Grandmaster (chess)|grandmaster tournament, with the largest prize fund in history,Cite web|title=Announcing the First Annual Bobby Darin International Chess Classic|publisher=bobbydarin.com|url= http://www.bobbydarin.com/chess73.htm| accessdate = 2011-01-08 but the event was canceled after his death.Cite web|last=Wall|first=Bill|authorlink=Bill Wall|title=Hollywood and Chess|publisher=Chessville|url= http://www.chessville.com/BillWall/HollywoodAndChess.htm|accessdate=2011-01-08
Death
In 1973, Darin's ill health took a turn for the worse. After failing to take medication to protect his heart before a dental visit, he developed an overwhelming systemic infection, otherwise known as sepsis . This weakened his body and badly affected one of his heart valves. On December 11, Darin entered Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles for surgery to repair two artificial heart valves he had received in the previous heart operation back in January 1971. On the evening of December 19, a five-man surgical team worked for over six hours to repair Darin's damaged heart. Darin died minutes afterward in the recovery room on December 20, 1973, at the age of 37 without regaining consciousness. There were no funeral arrangements. Darin's last wish in his will was that his body be donated to science for medical research, and his remains were transferred to UCLA Medical Center shortly after his death.
Legacy
In 1990, singer Paul Anka made the speech for Darin's induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame . In 1999, he was voted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame . He has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame .
The Righteous Brothers refer to Darin in their song, "Rock and Roll Heaven", a tribute to late musicians released months after Darin's death. As well, Darin's former pianist, Roger Kellaway , has recorded two albums of Darin's music.
In 1998 PBS aired the acclaimed documentary, Bobby Darin: Beyond the Song , produced by Henry Astor and Jason Cilo.
In a 2003 episode of the NBC television series American Dreams , Duncan Sheik portrays Darin and performs "Beyond the Sea" on American Bandstand . Brittany Snow 's character, Meg Pryor, is assigned as Darin's liaison during the show.
On Monday, May 14, 2007, Darin was awarded a star on the Las Vegas Walk of Stars to honor his contribution to making Las Vegas the "Entertainment Capital of the World" and to acknowledge his reputation as one of the greatest entertainers of the 20th century. The sponsorship fee for this star was raised entirely by fan donations.
In December 2007, Darin was inducted into the Hit Parade Hall of Fame.
Darin had a custom car built called the " DiDia 150|Dream Car ", designed by Andy DiDia; http://www.bobbydarin.net/dreamcarart.html Dream Car Art the car is on display at the St. Louis Museum of Transportation . http://www.transportmuseumassociation.org/automobile.html Transport Museum Association
On December 13, 2009, the Recording Academy announced that Darin would receive a posthumous Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2010 Grammy Awards ceremony.
Biopic
Main|Beyond the Sea (film) As early as 1986, director Barry Levinson intended to direct a film based on Darin's life, and had begun preproduction on the project in early 1997. Eventually, he abandoned the project. Subsequently, actor and lifelong Darin fan Kevin Spacey & mdash;along with Darin's son, Dodd& mdash;acquired the film rights . The resultant biopic, "Beyond the Sea", starred Spacey as Darin, with the actor using his own singing voice for the musical numbers, as well as co-writing, co-producing and directing. The film covers much of Darin's life and career, including his marriage to Sandra Dee , portrayed by Kate Bosworth . With the consent of the Darin estate, former Darin manager Steve Blauner, and archivist Jimmy Scalia, "Beyond the Sea" opened at the 2004 Toronto International Film Festival. Though Dodd Darin, Sandra Dee, and Blauner responded enthusiastically to Spacey's work and the film was strongly promoted by the studio, "Beyond the Sea" received mixed-to-poor reviews upon wide release, and box office results were disappointing. Some critics praised Spacey's performance, largely owing to his decision to use his own singing voice, and Spacey did receive a Golden Globe Nomination for Best Actor—Motion Picture Musical or Comedy, but he lost to Jamie Foxx. http://www.imdb.com/event/ev0000292/2005
The film also spurred a renewed interest in Darin, resulting in the issue of previously unreleased Darin music.
;"Early In The Morning": :Darin approached Brunswick Records with "Early In the Morning." Brunswick was impressed, but as Darin was still under contract to Atlantic Records' subsidiary, Atco, the song was released by 'The Ding Dongs'. New York deejays liked the record and Atco soon discovered the deception. Brunswick was forced to turn over the masters to Atco which released the record under the name, 'The Rinky Dinks'. In the UK where it had to compete with a version by Buddy Holly, rush released by Brunswick, the single was released under Darin's own name.cite web|url= http://www.bobbydarin.net/sn_042458.html |title=Session notes by Dik de Heer: "Early in the Morning" |publisher=Bobbydarin.net |date= |accessdate=2010-09-03
Albums
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1960
Bobby Darin
Atco 33-102—1958 Issued only in mono
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''That's All
Atco 33-104 (Mono) SD 33-104 (Stereo)
7
9
16
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This is Darin
Atco 33-115 (Mono) SD 33-115 (Stereo)
6
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7
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Darin At The Copa
Atco 33-122 (Mono) SD 33-122 (Stereo)
9
6
12
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For Teenagers Only
Atco 1001& ndash;1960 (Mono) Issued only in mono
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38
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''It's You Or No One
Atco 33-124 SD 33-124& ndash;1960
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The 25th Day of December
Atco 33-125 SD 33-125& ndash;1960
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1961
Two Of A Kind (Bobby Darin & Johnny Mercer)
Atco 33-126 SD 33-126& ndash;1961
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38
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The Bobby Darin Story
Atco 33-131 SD 33-131& ndash;1961 Originally issued with white album cover, reissued in 1962 with black album cover. These issues were pressed with Bobby Darin's autograph in the run-out groove plate on Side 2; later reissues do not include the autograph
18
11
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Love Swings
Atco 33-134 SD 33-134& ndash;1961
92
49
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Twist with Bobby Darin
Atco 33-138 SD 33-138& ndash;1961 Original copies of the above Atco albums were originally pressed with yellow "harp" labels. In 1962, these were re-released with gold/ dark blue labels (mono copies) and purple/ brown labels (stereo copies), which were also used for the forecoming Atco releases
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45
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1962
Bobby Darin Sings Ray Charles
Atco 33-140 SD 33-140—1962
96
41
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Things and Other Things
Atco 33-146 SD 33-146—1962
45
43
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Oh& #33; Look at Me Now
Capitol T(Mono) ST(Stereo) 1791—1962
100
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1963
Earthy
Capitol T/ ST-1826—1963
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''You're the Reason I'm Living
Capitol T 1866 ST 1866—1963
43
19
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18 Yellow Roses"
Capitol T 1942 ST 1942—1963
98
69
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Golden Folk Hits
Capitol T/ ST 2007—1963
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1964
Winners
Atco 33-167/ SD 33-167—1964
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''As Long As I'm Singing
Capitol T/ ST 2084—1964 Unreleased, but rare stereo acetates are known to exist
Dodd Darin & Maxine Paetro: Dream Lovers: the Magnificent Shattered Lives of Bobby Darin and Sandra Dee . New York: Warner Books 1994. ISBN 0-446-51768-2
References
Reflist
External links
Portal|Biography
Official website|1= http://www.bobbydarin.com
IMDb name|0201239
http://www.fundacionjoseguillermocarrillo.info/sitio/muspopular_bobby_darin.php International Jose Guillermo Carrillo Foundation
http://www.rockhall.com/hof/inductee.asp? id=87 Hall of Rock
http://www.jimmyscalia.com/ Jimmy Scalia: The Official Bobby Darin Archivist
http://darinland.com/Bobby-Darin-Discography.html Bobby Darin Discography: Complete Details on all Darin LPs
Watch
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0363473/ "Beyond the Sea" (2004) Hollywood movie on the life of Bobby Darin
Listen
http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc19762/m1/ Bobby Darin interview recorded 11.5.1967 http://www.library.unt.edu/resolveuid/24bc6899959ba29ac6feca22c5ad8ed9 on the Pop Chronicles
Grammy Award for Best New ArtistGrammy Award for Record of the Year 1960s Persondata| NAME = Darin, Bobby | ALTERNATIVE NAMES = | SHORT DESCRIPTION = | DATE OF BIRTH = May 14, 1936 | PLACE OF BIRTH = | DATE OF DEATH = December 20, 1973 | PLACE OF DEATH = DEFAULTSORT:Darin, Bobby Category:American crooners Category:American male singers Category:American pop singers Category:American rock singers Category:American film actors Category:Grammy Award winners Category:Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award winners Category:Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees Category:Songwriters Hall of Fame inductees Category:Decca Records artists Category:Atlantic Records artists Category:Motown artists Category:People from the Bronx Category:People from Staten Island Category:The Bronx High School of Science alumni Category:Hunter College alumni Category:American musicians of Italian descent Category:American jazz musicians of Italian descent Category:Deaths from surgical complications Category:1936 births Category:1973 deaths
