Re: OT: An appreciation of the late Bobby Darin
Date: June 10, 2019 00:04
I heard Splish Splash on hit radio, then went forward and back from there.
Caught between two generations, huge movie star moments with American icon
Sandra Dee was all the 'entertainment' and other news talked about....
....i was way too young to go to those movies but i heard the hits on the radio and he did a lot of live tv.
there's something about him so soulful and natural and he was bursting with all kinds of talent; i was so brokenhearted when i saw that Kevin what's his name vanity project. this is one of the major rock and roll guys to me. he had 'swing' in his phrasing and a confident, original approach that was amazing.
His heart was with the times and culture that blew his kind of 'Sammy Davis' nightclub stuff,
out of the young record buying public,
but i was also, and still am, a fan. When he stopped wearing a toupee and would sing acoustic folks songs; well, i'm not saying it's Segovia or Caruso; or maybe not even Dean Martin; but a great, great vocal sound; a very decent multi-instrumentalist; OK, that's show-off stuff in a club act; but he was a real musician who felt it and wanted to be in the band too....
Splish Splash knocked the hell out of me. I was born 51, I'm old like Rockman, and don't remember when they came out; but i got that single and played it ten thousand times...
...for me it was maybe what Freddie Cannon's Palisades Park, or was it, Tallahassee Lassie, the rough 'out there' rhythm-party sonic
that was what Mick Jagger claimed was sorta in his head when he was writing Brown Sugar on electric guitar (with portable headphones in the Outback on electric guitar).
Darin obviously not the rock star, he went the way of Dion and other favorites
of mine when the UK Invasion, which I adored and supported vigorously, came to radio. But I always bought his stuff, listened; dug the way he got into things, and cared about what he was up to creatively; i didn't know about the illness and personal dynamics; the stuff of the Exploitation papers of the day.
But it SCREAMED FROM EVERYWHERE; it imprinted like the Eddie Fisher Debbie Reynolds drama ....and the birth of sadly departed Carrie, such a great writer and fun actress in the Blues Brothers trying to blow them up; i guess Star Wars too....
the Sandra Dee stuff was BIG BIG BIG like Elvis and Priscilla;
speaking of the Bill thread, she was, ulp, ....
never mind...
stay away from that movie; EVERYTHING about it is wrong.
Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 2019-06-10 00:38 by hopkins.