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Bobby Darin: Seeing is Believing
by C. Michael Bailey
Bobby Darin Bobby Darin: Seeing is Believing Hyena Records 2006
Bobby Darin: Seeing is Believing is the follow-up to Hyena's previously released CD/DVD collection of rare appearances Aces Back to Back (2004). Darin (1936-1973) has been the subject of considerable interest as evidenced by Aces Back to Back and the Kevin Spacey biopic Beyond the Sea (2004).
Born Walden Robert Cassotto on May 14, 1936, Darin was raised by his ...
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by Jim Santella
Bobby Darin was a real swinger. He entertained with soul and spirit. Over the years, his performance was adapted to fit the changing times. This reissued album documents his February 6, 1971 appearance at the Desert Inn in Las Vegas. With backup singers, a powerful rhythm section and a large jazz orchestra, the popular singer gave us some of his best material.
This was back when big bands still worked for a living at places like the Desert ...
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by Daniel Kassell
Kevin Spacey Beyond the Sea Lions Gate 2004
The diminutive Bobby Darin first drew attention as a teen idol singer-songwriter with Splish Splash." Confident of his talent as a Bronx, NY pianist, guitarist and drummer he then insisted on doing an album of standards That's All that reflected his admiration of Louis Armstrong and made Mack the Knife" another hit.
In Beyond the Sea producer Kevin Spacey's biopic of Bobby Darin's life, ...
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by David Rickert
Bobby Darin Aces Back to Back! Hyena Records 2004
For a time Bobby Darin's reputation rested solely on two songs: Splish Splash" and Mack the Knife." Taken together, they represent Darin's transition from the teen market to the adult market, something that very few were able to do. But they are also emblematic of the genre-hopping that the singer would explore his whole life. It has been said that in adding folk ...
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by Dr. Judith Schlesinger
Bobby Darin Aces Back to Back! Hyena Records 2004
Joel Dorn and his Hyena Records have done it again: another binless wonder. ("Binless" is my term for music that defies categorization, specifically at the few brick-and-mortar record outlets that remain, where employees would struggle to find the right file for it, assuming that they cared.)
The Frank and Joe Show was a triumph, and it continues to be so on CD and ...
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
We tend to think of Bobby Darin as the last old-school pop singer before the American songbook was submerged by the rock-and-soul surge of the 1960s. And in many respects he was. But just as Darin was rising as the heir to Frank Sinatra, Nat King Cole and Tony Bennett, he became meaningless almost overnight. One day he was a finger-snapping swinger and the next he was caught leaning in the wrong generation. But if you listen to Darin's many ...
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New York West Village Jazz Septet Takes On the Music of Bobby Darin
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All About Jazz
"Splish Splash" is Bobby Darin's pivotal 1958 party hit. The Bronx-born musician is best remembered as a crooner from the '50s and '60s. Made famous again by the 2004 film Beyond the Sea," starring Kevin Spacey. But when the jazz septet Waverly Seven dives into his music, Darin's big band beginnings are apparent. It seemed like a cool idea to do the music of Bobby Darin," says Waverly Seven's Joel Frahm. About a year ago, these seven young New York-based ...
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Bobby Darin - Seeing Is Believing: 19 Song DVD Collection on Hyena Records
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All About Jazz
BOBBY DARIN SEEING IS BELIEVING: 19 CLASSIC PERFORMANCES OF THE LEGENDARY ENTERTAINER AVAILABLE FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER ON DVD
Featuring His Biggest Hits Like Mack The Knife," Dream Lover," Splish Splash" and Beyond The Sea" Plus Duets With Connie Francis and Bobbie Gentry
Of the handful of people who could do it all, nobody did it all the way Bobby Darin did. And when it came to singing, any kind of song he wanted to sing, he could sing." ...
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