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Bobby Darin
DIR By: andra
Date: June 30, 2017, 9:57 am
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In 1958, after several forgettable recordings, Bobby came up
with his first big hit, "Splish Splash", which he claimed took
only 12 minutes to write. "Mack the Knife", climbed to the
top-ten music charts the following year. Bobby moved to
Hollywood in 1960, and met and later married his wife Sandra
Dee. He starred with her in Come September (1961) and received
an Oscar nomination for his role in Captain Newman, M.D. (1963).
In the mid-1960s Bobby made several movies (garnering especially
good reviews for his performance in the World War II drama Hell
Is for Heroes (1962)), toured college campuses and played in Las
Vegas. His song "If I Were a Carpenter", written by Tim Hardin,
shot to #8 in 1966. However, after his divorce from Sandra,
Bobby went into a career decline. In 1968 he worked tirelessly
for Robert F. Kennedy's presidential campaign, despite his heart
condition. After Kennedy was assassinated in Los Angeles in June
1968 Bobby, disillusioned with life in general and the state of
the world in particular, retreated from the entertainment world.
He sold his house and all his possessions, and lived in
seclusion in a mobile home in Big Sur. After a year away from
the public eye, Bobby realized that he couldn't deny his talent
to the public and returned to the recording industry in 1969,
and started his own record company, Direction Records, releasing
an album "Born Walden Robert Cassotto".
He married for the second time and returned to performing on the
Las Vegas stage, although he was less driven to it than he had
been because of his failing heart. In January 1971 he suffered a
mild heart attack and underwent open-heart surgery to have two
artificial valves planted in his heart. After spending most of
the year in ill health, Bobby gradually recovered and returned
to the stage. By 1973 his life seem to be back on track. In
December the artificial valves in his weakening heart
malfunctioned and he checked himself into Los Angeles' Cedars of
Lebanon Hospital for another round of open heart surgery for the
valves to be replaced. On December 20, 1973, the surgery began.
A five-man surgical team worked for over six hours to save his
life. But although the surgery was partially successful, Darin
died literally minutes afterward in the recovery room without
regaining consciousness. One of the doctors' diagnoses of
Bobby's death was that he was just too weak to recover. There
was no formal funeral ceremony. He willed that his body be
donated to the UCLA Medical Facility for research.
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Re: Bobby Darin
DIR By: Dazzal
Date: February 5, 2019, 9:19 am
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He had a really good voice. Too bad his life was cut short.
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Re: Bobby Darin
DIR By: andra
Date: March 3, 2019, 1:33 am
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Darin lived far longer than he should have.
That heart condition of his should have killed him in his teens.
I believe the love of his mother and his great strength of will
kept him alive until 37 years old.
Love the film "Beyond The Sea" that Keven Spacey made with the
cooperation of his family.
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