My quest - to list those things I like that everybody else probably doesn't - continues.
I started with the movie 'Mission Impossible 3' and moved on to (God help us) this song. So now here's number three and it's a singer.
I think I may be off-the-mark, this time though. I mean, really, how could anyone not love this:
(turn the volume up a bit)
I love Bobby Darin.
Sorry I can't help it. I'm not an authority on him or anything and I don't own his entire back catalog either. In fact, I only have one CD of his work - a sort of a greatest hit compilation but, dammit, if I feel bad and want to feel a bit better then Bobby can do that for me and he never seems to fail.
So if you want to know everything about Bobby Darin, go look him up on Wikipedia or something. I'm only hear to tell you he's great and to play a few tunes for you.
There's one thing about Bobby that I don't like (sorry Bob). I really don't like looking at him. He was just so darn 'busy' on stage, it even gives me the jitters to YouTube him. Perhaps it's also a factor that he was so 'hip' and 'cool' that images of him now seem so much more dated than those artists who weren't trying so hard to be on the cutting edge all the time.
People might put him down 'just as a pop singer' but he was innovative and creative too. He took that song from the Threepenny Opera and made it his own in a very special way. Everybody in the world has recorded it - some versions may be better and many are doubtless worse but it's Bobby's version that sets the standard. I don't think the archive footage captures what it must have been like to hear Bobby sing 'Mack The Knife' live but I think this clip from Kevin Spacey's biopic goes some way to doing that.
Have a Look by clicking here.
I like loads of dear Bobby's songs. (Truth? I wish I could sing like that, I do).
But my absolute favorite was derived from Charles Trenet's wonderful song, 'La Mer'. Here's Charles himself doing it like the French do.
Bobby took this lovely song and he did this wonderful thing with it:
I like Bobby Darin. So you don't have to.
You really should though.
I started with the movie 'Mission Impossible 3' and moved on to (God help us) this song. So now here's number three and it's a singer.
I think I may be off-the-mark, this time though. I mean, really, how could anyone not love this:
(turn the volume up a bit)
I love Bobby Darin.
Sorry I can't help it. I'm not an authority on him or anything and I don't own his entire back catalog either. In fact, I only have one CD of his work - a sort of a greatest hit compilation but, dammit, if I feel bad and want to feel a bit better then Bobby can do that for me and he never seems to fail.
So if you want to know everything about Bobby Darin, go look him up on Wikipedia or something. I'm only hear to tell you he's great and to play a few tunes for you.
There's one thing about Bobby that I don't like (sorry Bob). I really don't like looking at him. He was just so darn 'busy' on stage, it even gives me the jitters to YouTube him. Perhaps it's also a factor that he was so 'hip' and 'cool' that images of him now seem so much more dated than those artists who weren't trying so hard to be on the cutting edge all the time.
People might put him down 'just as a pop singer' but he was innovative and creative too. He took that song from the Threepenny Opera and made it his own in a very special way. Everybody in the world has recorded it - some versions may be better and many are doubtless worse but it's Bobby's version that sets the standard. I don't think the archive footage captures what it must have been like to hear Bobby sing 'Mack The Knife' live but I think this clip from Kevin Spacey's biopic goes some way to doing that.
Have a Look by clicking here.
I like loads of dear Bobby's songs. (Truth? I wish I could sing like that, I do).
But my absolute favorite was derived from Charles Trenet's wonderful song, 'La Mer'. Here's Charles himself doing it like the French do.
Bobby took this lovely song and he did this wonderful thing with it:
I like Bobby Darin. So you don't have to.
You really should though.
