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Bobby Darin (born Walden Robert Cassotto, May 14, 1936 – December 20, 1973) was one of the most popular American big band performers and rock and roll teen idols of the late 1950s and early 1960s. Darin performed widely in a range of music genres, including pop, jazz, folk and country. Although unknown to his public, his health was dangerously fragile and strongly motivated him to succeed within the limited lifetime he feared he had. He was also an actor, singer/songwriter and music business entrepreneur. His wish for a legacy was "to be remembered as a human being and as a great performer." Among his many other contributions, he became a goodwill ambassador for the American Heart Association.
In 1973, Darin`s ill health took a turn for the worse. After failing to take medication prescribed after a dental visit, he developed blood poisoning, weakening his body and clotting one of his heart valves. On December 11, 1973, Darin entered Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles to repair two artificial heart valves received in a previous operation. Despite this, Bobby Darin died on December 20, 1973 after eight hours on the operating table. No funeral was held for Darin, and his body was donated to UCLA for medical research. Shortly before his death, he divorced his second wife, Andrea. His first wife, Sandra Dee, never re-married. Biography Credit: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Darin |
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BiographyFriends and FamilyNina [Mother] (he was raised to believe Nina was his sister)Trivia and QuotesQuotes I don`t know what it is to love the way they love-they would jump off a bridge for me. I can`t do that. I can only say, I owe you. This marriage is no one`s business but our own. Show me any top entertainer or top business executive, and I`ll show you a guy who has mapped out his life from the very start. Who am I that I have to sing under an umbrella? These people are my fans, and if they can stand in the rain to hear me sing, I can stand in the rain. If you don`t try, if you don`t do something for yourself, you won`t get anywhere. I realized that I needed to be anonymous on the street and somebody else on the stage. I had tried to put my street self on the stage, but what they want is an actor on stage. Mr. Burns comes out and flips cigar ashes on his shoes, and makes up about 90 percent of what you hear. It was as though all my hostilities, anxieties, and conflicts were in one ball that was flying away into space, farther from me all the time, leaving me content with myself. Nearly everything I do is part of a master plan to make me the most important entertainer in the world. I`ve done a lot of things and I`ve been a lot of people, but now I`ve come to realize who I am. Everybody thinks I`m at death`s door, but I`m not. There`s nothing seriously wrong with me, and my heart is in 100 percent working order. Anything else you may hear is a damn lie! I am now a turtle. Virtually everything I own is on my back and suffice it to say I am one ton lighter and therefore 2,000 pounds happier. All houses are gone. My family comes first. Maybe that`s what makes me different from other guys. I`m more married to Sandy now than when we were married with the legal document. We`re still married as parents. My philosophy is to take one day at a time. I don`t worry about the future. Tomorrow is even out of sight for me. Everybody, sooner or later, will have to go under the knife. Let`s hope they make out as well as I did. The Democratic Party of California is ready to sponsor me. All I have to do is find the right office to run for. I drilled holes in the floor of the club, and it`s sinking. I dazzle you with that footwork. I`m a singer who moves like a dancer. The sex element is the most important in the business. You must sell sex. There are certain times I don`t want my picture taken. If my wife`s stepping out of a car and it looks like it`s going to come out an indecent picture, don`t I have a right to object? My entire life has been a lie. You`re either sexy or you`re not. I`m very self-conscious about my physiognomy. I had these shoes made and 2 to 3 inch lifts inside and the heel was another 2 and half inches. I walked around that way, wherever I could without falling over. My goal is to be remembered as a human being and as a great performer. I could have a roomful of awards and it wouldn`t mean beans. My whole life has been a lie. It isn`t true that you live only once. You only die once. You live lots of times, if you know how. When I come out and sing the first few bars of Bill Bailey, it`s very exciting. I don`t want to be able to see the audience. I think Flip Wilson is a brillant comedian. A comedian`s body is funny as well as his mind being funny, his whole personage is funny. Sure my career means a hell of a lot, but it will never come before Sandy and my son. Mr. Burns is a father symbol to me, and you can omit the word symbol. I don`t care if I never do another TV show in my life. A group or an artist shouldn`t get his money until his boss gets his. George Burns was the father I never had. I want to make it faster than anyone has ever made it before. I`d like to be a legend by the time I`m 25. Just call me a family man and an actor who digs his whole scene, side interests and all. Just say I feel mighty good at the ripe old age of 27. Any fool knows that bravado is always a cover-up for insecurity. That`s the truth. And on that note, I`ll say goodnight. God love you. Maybe I should quit the business. There`s no one left for me to love. Mama`s dead. Mr. Burns couldn`t care less about me. What`s left? I decided I was going to give up singing and concentrate on acting, and a result of that, I didn`t do another film for two to three years, and I don`t blame it on anybody but myself. I want to do drama, light comedy, the whole range. I have worked with a great many comedians as opposed to comics, although I have worked with comics as well, I make the distinction. It happens to the best of them. You lay off singing and your throat gets out of practice. No excuses. I blew it. Conceit is thinking you`re great; egotism is knowing it.Trivia Inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1999. Was portrayed by Kevin Spacey in Beyond the Sea (2004). He signed Wayne Newton to his record producing company (TM Music) and had him record "Danke Schoen", which was originally supposed to be recorded by Darin himself. His #1 hit song, "Mack the Knife", had a strange connection with the number "59": it was the 59th #1 single of the rock era, it entered the Billboard charts at #59, and was the second biggest-selling record of 1959. He lost his hair in his early 20s and wore a toupee thereafter. Italian-American. Elected to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1990. Rather than internment, his body was donated to the UCLA Medical Center. | ||
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