Things & Other Things
Released: July 1962
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Released: July 1962
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The tossed-off title of Bobby Darin's final LP for Atco betrays the circumstances surrounding its release. "Things" was one of Darin's final recordings for the label, a bittersweet swinger with one...
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18 Yellow Roses
Released: July 1963
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Released: July 1963
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The title track of this 1963 LP was a Top Ten hit and a most worthy Darin foray into country-pop, bearing a slight similarity to Roy Orbison's early-'60s work. Both it and its lost gem of a B-side,...
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Earthy!
Released: July 1963
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Released: July 1963
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Earthy! was the first of two folk LPs Darin released in 1963 (the other, Golden Folk Hits, would follow four months later). It's a solid folk-pop effort, though the arrangements and singing can get...
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Golden Folk Hits
Released: November 1963
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Released: November 1963
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Golden Folk Hits was Bobby Darin's second collection of folk songs. Guest musicians included Glen Campbell, Phil Ochs, and Roger McGuinn of the Byrds. The songs Darin selected include many...
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It's You or No One
Released: June 1963
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Released: June 1963
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It's You or No One is a strange album in Bobby Darin's catalog. For some reason, the record was recorded in 1960 but held for three years before its June 1963 release. It is another concept record...
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You're the Reason I'm Living
Released: February 1963
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Released: February 1963
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The title track of You're the Reason I'm Living was a number three hit single, generating an album that, like that hit, mined the soul-tinged country-pop that Ray Charles had plumbed successfully...
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Clementine
Released: 1964
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Released: 1964
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Clementine was released by Clarion Records in 1964, three years after The Bobby Darin Story. The company licensed ten previously released songs from Atco for this collection, though it is not...
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Winners
Released: June 1964
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Released: June 1964
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Even after having parted ways with the Atlantic Records subsidiary Atco some two years earlier, Bobby Darin's continued successes encouraged the label to issue any and all usable recordings that...
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Venice Blue
Released: May 1965
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Released: May 1965
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Venice Blue was released in May of 1965 and was Bobby Darin's follow-up to the artistically (but not financially) successful From Hello Dolly to Goodbye Charlie. Surprisingly, Darin stuck with his...
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