Best Live Darin CD

This is Maximum Bobby ... this is Bobby before his heart started really giving out, before his personal life started taking a toll on him ... this is very ripe Bobby Darin totally committed to the audience. The song selection is perfect - this is before his slight diversion to folk, so no "Michael Row the Boat Ashore" - and shows us exactly what made him the Legendary Bobby Darin.

Darin at the Copa = Perfect Live Cd

This cd is perfect, You feel as if its 1960 and you are sitting in the third row at the Copa with your lady and your beverage of choice listening to the next Frank Sinatra with some pop,rock and standards throw in for good measure. From "Come Home Bill Bailey to the live standards between. This CD is the closet live setting you can actually feel. This is a MUST FOR ALL DARIN FANS.

Darin Was Truly One In A Million

At age twenty-two Darin had the magneticism, showmanship and musical syncopation that niether Sinatra nor Tony Bennett possessed at sixty. Because Darin also delved into rock and roll a lot of old fartsy purists don't give him the recognition he deserves as a great vocalist of American classic popular songs. But these old farts aside, Darin had more natural rhythm and uptempo style than Sinatra and Bennett combined. Listen to "Beyond the Sea," A Nightengale Sang in Berkeley Square," and "Mack the Knife," and then compare them with Frank's or Tony's renditions. No contest. Furthermore, Darin could sing (with ease) rhythm and blues, gospel, folk, jazz, and county & western like a natural. No other popular singer--male or female--has been able to conquer all of these musical genres so convincingly. Darin had real talent and the panache and style that comes along only once in a long, long while. Tis a shame he died so young, and an even greater shame that so many old farts think that far less talented singers like Dick Haymes and Tony Bennett are superior to Darin simply because the latter performers remained "true" to the 1940s sound---as if there is some intrinsic virtue to singing within the confines of one musical genre while it is a "sin" to possess the talent to master multiple genres. To be fair, there are many among the WWII generation who recognize Darin as an incomparable talent. And that's how he should be remembered---as a truly great talent whose career was tragically cut short.