Bobby Darin - sexy

He's not the most attractive man, but he has great hand movements and is sexy.

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by Anonymousreply 40April 6, 2022 10:48 PM

Better than sexy is that Darin had real talent and knew how to sing a song and make you feel like he meant it. I guess you could say that quality made him sexy as well.

by Anonymousreply 1October 24, 2021 3:30 PM

Check out the video of Darin singing a duet with Petula Clark on his old TV show. It was "All I have to do is Dream." This was back when men & women knew how to sing a love song together. No crotch grabbing or F*** Y** in the lyrics like we've got today. I'm glad I grew up in this era.

by Anonymousreply 3February 13, 2022 1:12 AM

^ "I'm glad I grew up in this era. "

Obviously

by Anonymousreply 4February 13, 2022 1:16 AM

Bobby didn't have an easy life. He found out that the woman he always considered his sister was actually his mother. He also was aware that he had health issues that could lead to an early deat (which it did).

by Anonymousreply 5February 13, 2022 1:16 AM

He did some really great stuff in the late 60s after his popularity had waned.

He's so cool - effortless performance >

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by Anonymousreply 6February 13, 2022 1:25 AM

He was also an Oscar nominee.

by Anonymousreply 7February 13, 2022 1:27 AM

So you think Kevin Spacey is sexy too then. Got it.

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by Anonymousreply 9February 13, 2022 1:34 AM

R5 I've seen Dodd, Darin's son with Sandra Dee, say his dad died as much from the shock of learning the woman he thought was his mother was really his grandmother as he did from the actual heart disease. Ten years after Bobby died Dodd found a piece of paper that he had put in storage after he took everything home that Bobby had while he was in the hospital the last time. He had scribbled on a piece of paper that Nina, his real mother, had robbed him of his dream to always show "mamma" what he could do. The grandmother was always mother to him as he hated his sister. Nothing changed that after he learned she was his real mom.

The grandmother took a downturn in health at the same time that Bobby was born. Bobby always blamed his late in life birth for her poor health afterwards. This was what the two women couldn't have known when they switched roles during a time when an unmarried woman having a baby caused lifelong stigma & shame.

by Anonymousreply 10February 13, 2022 1:36 AM

Obviously having a slut for a mother has consequences.

by Anonymousreply 11February 13, 2022 1:37 AM

R9 Spacey is beyond disgusting.

by Anonymousreply 12February 13, 2022 1:38 AM

R12, saying "Trumpian" will spare you two syllables.

by Anonymousreply 13February 13, 2022 1:41 AM

HIs greatest hits really are the greatest: Splish Splash, Queen of the Hop, Dream Lover, Mack the Knife, Beyond the Sea, Lazy River, Down With Love, Clementine, Bill Bailey, Artificial Flowers, Skylark.....even his Auld Lang Syne.....and on and on....

Loved him since I was a kid in the 60s and still listen to him today. Truly timeless.

by Anonymousreply 14February 13, 2022 1:42 AM

There are days when I play all my Darin CDs, and I'm so glad Bobby put out so much quality work. He knew he wouldn't live long so he did what George Michael started to do as well by crossing genres. I wish I had the same amount of George Michael material as there is of Darin. Bobby could sing it all effortlessly and that's really a false statement to put it that way. It wasn't effortless. It just sounded that way because of his talent. During live shows the public never knew that in between songs Bobby had to be given oxygen. He might have had a few more years if he had not been a smoker. Such a shame he died at only 37. I guess you can say the same thing about Sam Cooke as he didn't even make it to that age.

by Anonymousreply 15February 13, 2022 1:45 AM

I liked his music, but I wouldn't want to have known him personally. He seemed to be such a show biz asshole.

by Anonymousreply 16February 13, 2022 1:45 AM

This is one of my favorite segments of the great variety shows of the 1960s. Bobby looked great, very sexy, and funny. A great performance by all three.

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by Anonymousreply 17February 13, 2022 1:51 AM

There's an uncropped picture of his performing Splish Splash in the shower for a television show that gives away the goods, so to speak.

by Anonymousreply 18February 13, 2022 2:06 AM

He had a least one illegitimate child.

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by Anonymousreply 19February 13, 2022 2:10 AM

Very talented, but the slick, phony, Vegas delivery was always a turnoff for me and I'm glad that era is gone.

by Anonymousreply 20February 13, 2022 2:11 AM

R3 would rather have Jim Crow laws than someone singing about sex.

Old Republicans are hilarious

by Anonymousreply 21February 13, 2022 2:12 AM

When he guest starred on the show Run For Your Life he made homophobic jokes about male dancers on the show

by Anonymousreply 22February 13, 2022 2:14 AM

Late Bobby Darin 1972.

Listen to what he does with his voice here. The control. A gorgeous/schmaltzy tune that he sings flawlessly.

No one can sing like this today. And no more tunesmiths like Michel Legrand.

Our popular culture has lost so much.

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by Anonymousreply 23February 13, 2022 2:15 AM

R20 I can agree with your Vegas comment. Darin is back there in the Rat Pack era of Sinatra, Martin, Sammy Davis, etc. Darin had this side to his live performance. I can never understand how Sammy Davis could tolerate the racial "jokes" when he was with the others in the Pack. That crap was just acceptable back then, unfortunately. In any case when Darin recorded in the studio the Vegas stick was gone, and it's just his talent that comes through. As long as we're back with the old singers the picture just a few posts ago reminded me of Andy Williams who was another very nice singer. I remember he had his own show for awhile too. As I recall the Osmonds got their start there, and now even Donny & Marie are up there in age.

by Anonymousreply 24February 13, 2022 2:21 AM

R21 You're funny. I'm a life long Democrat who loves sensual, erotic and yes sexy music. Hate to break it to you that crotch grabbing is none of those things.

by Anonymousreply 25February 13, 2022 2:26 AM

R11, you’re a misogynistic cunt.

by Anonymousreply 26February 13, 2022 2:31 AM

He was a dick to poor Sandra Dee. Just came home one day, said he was leaving and walked out the door. She died a penniless, anorexic, alcoholic.

by Anonymousreply 27February 13, 2022 2:31 AM

Mack the Knife. Greatest song ever.

by Anonymousreply 28February 13, 2022 2:36 AM

There's a poignant interview Sandra Dee did with Sally Jessye Raphael not long before she died if you can find it on youtube.

by Anonymousreply 29February 13, 2022 2:43 AM

R27 It's true that Bobby was not a nice person in many ways. Poor Sandra had a ton of issues before she ever hooked up with him. I think she was sexually abused by her father or someone in her family when she was young. It's a long time now since I read about it. She miscarried five times after she had Dodd due to her anorexia. No one had a clue about that illness back in those days. Darin was a womanizer which was unfortunate.

by Anonymousreply 30February 13, 2022 3:02 AM

[quote]Very talented, but the slick, phony, Vegas delivery was always a turnoff for me and I'm glad that era is gone.

He was so much more.

Could do rock, the standards, folk, jazz and blues. All well.

His folky period 1967

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by Anonymousreply 31February 13, 2022 3:10 AM

He was married to that NUT JOB Sandra Dee.

by Anonymousreply 32February 13, 2022 3:23 AM

I heard rumors that he was gay or bisexual.

by Anonymousreply 33February 13, 2022 3:25 AM

A nice rendition of If I Were A Carpenter from 1973.

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by Anonymousreply 34February 13, 2022 3:27 AM

r30 It was her stepfather; her mother knew it was happening and turned a blind eye. Her mother lied about her age so she could work as a child model, which started the starvation diets. Sandra was pulling in $75k per year as a child model,1950s money. She never went to a real school and had no friends her age. They really fucked her over and then dumped her like yesterday's trash when she became an adult. Then Bobby walked out on her and their son.

by Anonymousreply 35February 13, 2022 3:27 AM

R35 Thank you. I knew it was something horrendous in her youth and not just one thing either. I know when she passed someone who knew her said she was a completely lost soul. Very sad what happened to her.

by Anonymousreply 36February 13, 2022 3:36 AM

R34 It is very nice. Bobby's folk album is excellent. One thing is he was deeply impacted by RFK's assassination. If I recall he stayed by the gravesite the night after the funeral. I think he sort of dropped out for awhile after that and spent time in Big Sur.

by Anonymousreply 37February 13, 2022 3:40 AM

Sandra Dee talks about the sexual abuse in that Raphael TV interview, as well as the humiliation of her downfall as a perpetual teen idol virgin ("Look at me, I'm Sandra Dee!").

by Anonymousreply 38February 13, 2022 3:55 AM

Bobby Darin is criminally underrated. Might not have had the voice Frank did, but had 10x the versatility. And was FUN to watch on stage/on screen. Really knew how to sell a song...a real showman like Sammy Davis.

by Anonymousreply 39April 6, 2022 10:35 PM

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