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Bobby FreemanNot in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame | |||||||||||||||||
Eligible since: 1984First Recording: 1958Previously Considered? No what's this? |
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Essential Songs (?) | Wikipedia | YouTube | |
Do You Want To Dance (1958) | ☆ | ☊ |
Bobby Freeman @ Wikipedia
Will Bobby Freeman be inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame? "Musical excellence is the essential qualification for induction." |
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2 comments so far (post your own)"Do You Want To Dance". The vocal is not nuanced at all, and the piano playing is more like piano banging. But that apparently was its charm, as this primal sound swung its way up to #5 pop/#2 R&B in 1958. I'm guessing because the original was so perfectly flawed, that everyone felt they could cover it. Some shouldn't have (Sonny & Cher, Sandy Nelson), some had their own hits with it (the Beach Boys), some added it to their repertoires as crowd pleasers (the 4 Seasons, Cliff Richard & the Shadows, Jan & Dean) and some took the song in a completely different direction that actually embraced the lyrics (the Mamas and the Papas, Johnny Rivers, Bette Midler). Posted by Charles Crossley Jr on Thursday, 05/26/2016 @ 10:23am |
RIP Bobby Freeman Posted by Roy on Thursday, 02/2/2017 @ 20:46pm |
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