Bobby Darin Highlight (LP, 10inch, Ltd.)

(1)

Listen to sample now:

0:00

$22.58 * $28.24 * (20.04% Saved)

* incl. VAT / plus shipping costsDepending on the country of delivery, the VAT at checkout may vary.

Ready to ship today,
delivery time** appr. 1-3 workdays

catalog number: BAF11029
weight in Kg 0.3

P Secure bonuspoints now

BEAR FAMILY Vinyl Club Exclusive - limited collector's edition 1-LP 10inch (limited to 500... more

Close menu

Bobby Darin: Highlight (LP, 10inch, Ltd.)

BEAR FAMILY Vinyl Club Exclusive - limited collector's edition

1-LP 10inch (limited to 500 copies - green vinyl), 12 tracks.

1:1 reproduction of an extremely rare Japanese pressing as limited collector's edition!
Probably first released in 1961 - no details are known.
Originals are sold for more than $500 ... if you see one offered!
Original Atco recordings from 1959 to 1961.
A total of four bonus tracks, including Eden Ahbez's great composition 'Nature Boy' as well as 'You Must Have Been A Beautiful Baby', 'Queen Of The Hop' and 'Mighty Mighty Man'.
Bobby Darin's repertoire was never limited to straight rock & roll, he liked timeless swinging pop and jazz numbers like 'Beyond The Sea' or 'Mack The Knife'.
Carefully remastered for superior sound quality and pressed on high-quality vinyl!
Limited to 500 colored copies!

Bobby Darin was born in New York City in 1936 and first appeared in local coffee houses in the mid-1950s. A first single from that time, 'My First Love', went down without causing much attention.

Connie Francis' manager got him an appearance in the 'Tommy Dorsey Show' and also got him a record deal with Decca Records. His debut single for the label, a cover version of 'Rock Island Line', and other releases between 1956 and '58 left no trace. It was only with his move to Atco Records and the 1958 'Queen Of The Hop', which sold millions of copies, that his career took off. In the following years he landed a total of four Top 10 hits, including the number one hits 'Dream Lover' (USA) and 'Mack The Knife' from the Threepenny Opera (UK) - awarded with a Grammy!

Bobby Darin died in California on December 20, 1973. In 1990 he was inducted into the 'Rock and Roll Hall of Fame' and nine years later into the 'Songwriters Hall of Fame'. Finally, in 2010 his life's work was honored with a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award.

With the exact reproduction of an extremely rare Japanese 25cm LP - strictly limited to 500 colored copies - Bear Family releases twelve recordings from his most successful recording period!

Video von Bobby Darin - Highlight (LP, 10inch, Ltd.)

Article properties: Bobby Darin: Highlight (LP, 10inch, Ltd.)

Interpret: Bobby Darin
Album titlle: Highlight (LP, 10inch, Ltd.)
Genre Rock'n'Roll
Label Bear Family Records
Preiscode BAF
Geschwindigkeit 33 U/min
Record Grading Mint (M)
Sleeve Grading Mint (M)
Edition 2 Limited Edition
Vinyl record size LP (10 inch)
Artikelart LP
EAN: 5397102110290
weight in Kg 0.3

Darin, Bobby - Highlight (LP, 10inch, Ltd.) LP 1
01	Oe-Ee Train	Bobby Darin
02	Lazy River	Bobby Darin
03	Somebody To Love	Bobby Darin
04	Mack The Knife	Bobby Darin
05	Nature Boy	Bobby Darin
06	You Must Have Been A Beautiful Baby	Bobby Darin
07	Clementine	Bobby Darin
08	I'll Be There	Bobby Darin
09	Beyond The Sea	Bobby Darin
10	Dream Lover	Bobby Darin
11	Mighty Mighty Man	Bobby Darin
12	Queen Of The Hop	Bobby Darin

Bobby Darin The Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame – the list of performers, not the museum... more

Close menu

"Bobby Darin"

Bobby Darin

The Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame – the list of performers, not the museum in Cleveland – has often generated its share of controversy; most often having to do with the credentials of one inductee or another. More specifically, "was that artist 'rock 'n' roll'?"

The question has been raised relative to soul men and women, folk artists, country singers, rappers, and Miles Davis. Not to slight their contribution to music, generally, but do they belong in the same Hall of Fame as (say) Chuck Berry, Jerry Lee Lewis and Elvis Presley?

Steve Blauner, Bobby Darin's long-time manager and even longer-time friend, heard that question often, stemming from Darin's induction in 1990 – the same year as The Who, Hank Ballard, The Kinks, The Platters, The Four Tops, The Four Seasons, and Simon & Garfunkel.

You see the problem? Even more than some of the others, Darin stood out: Mister Mack The Knife, wasn't he? The man who, during a very brief 37 years on Earth, made his greatest and arguably most lasting mark as a tuxedoed finger-snapper, fronting a big band and wowing adult audiences at New York's Copacabana and in Las Vegas?

Well, it's a little more complicated than that.

"He almost didn't get into the Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame," says Blauner, "because put on a bow tie. But all of those people back then wanted to be Bobby – he was their Sinatra." And by "back then," Blauner is talking about before Mack The Knife, when Bobby Darin was scuffling the New York streets, looking for a hit; any kind of hit.

In fact, Bobby Darin was singing and playing before rock 'n' roll even existed. This compilation gathers several – but hardly all – of Darin's more rocking sides, a mere sampling of a musical career that went from calypso to rock 'n' roll; from Sinatra-styled pop to country and folk. And all before Darin died from a defective heart at the age of 37 on December 20, 1973.

The Calypso Years

Bobby was raised by the women he knew as his mother, sister and brother-in-law in Manhattan's Delancy Street projects. That was, friends, say, a key to his ambition; another was a lifelong heart condition that began with rheumatic fever in his infancy (Nina, the woman Darin introduced as his 'sister' was, in fact, his mother; his 'mother,' his grandmother. Bobby did not know this, though, until he was 30. Charlie Maffia, Nina's husband, was, though not Bobby's father, highly influential in his life).

"He was raised in the slums under the Triborough Bridge," explains Steve Karmen. "His struggle was not so much to have a hit as to escape his background."

When Karmen met Darin, both were attending the Bronx High School of Science, and it was the early '50s. "I was playing my saxophone in a school recital, and Bobby approached me; he wanted to form a band," says Karmen. "The swing era was coming to a polite end and rock 'n' roll was just coming in." The group also included pianist Eddie Ocasio, Dick Behrke on trumpet, and guitarist Walter Raim. Everybody sang. "We were all learning our instruments, really," Raim told Jeff Bleiel. "Bobby was a talented, musical kid. He decided that he would be the drummer, then he learned to play…"

"We played up-tempo blues with a heavy backbeat," Karmen elaborates, in addition to stock arrangements that were available to anybody – though, Karmen admits, "When you can't read music, it's hard to be a musician.

"In those days," he continues, "we'd learn ten songs, then when we'd run through all of those, we'd repeat 'em."

The band split when Darin graduated. "Dick and Walter wanted to be serious musicians," explains Karmen. "Bobby and I wanted to be entertainers.

I learned mandolin and guitar, and Bobby picked up some piano. When Harry Belafonte started becoming successful, we started doing his act – only wearing suits and ties."

Karmen and Darin played professionally, if only just so; gigs included shows in Catskill Mountain resorts, opening for or between featured acts. They started in the summer of 1951, making $35 per week.

Somewhere down the line, Don Kirshner entered the scene.

"I was working as a bellhop in Atlantic Beach, and had just written my first song. One day I was at a candy store near my house in Washington Heights, and a girl I knew walked in with Bobby – who was working as a janitor in the neighborhood. He was impressed because I was big-time; I'd just had my first song ['In All Of My Dreams'] published. We walked over to the girl's place, where she had a piano. Bobby proceeded to play me five songs; I said 'Let's team up, and we'll be the biggest thing in the business'."

Bobby Darin Bobby Darin - Bobby Rocks
Read more at: https://www.bear-family.com/darin-bobby-bobby-darin-bobby-rocks.html
Copyright © Bear Family Records

Read, write and discuss reviews... more

Close menu

Customer evaluation for "Highlight (LP, 10inch, Ltd.)"