I watched the Bobby Darin Show when I was a sophomore in high
school. I loved his singing. He could do anything, blues, standards, rock, folk,
country, you name it. I loved the duets he sang with his various musical guests.
I also enjoyed his comic bits as the Godmother, being interviewed by a man who
could barely look at Darin in his Godmother costume (gray wig and black dress)
without laughing. Darin also did great impressions of Clark Gable, Burt
Lancaster, and a very funny Robert Mitchum. He just had a magnetism about him
that was incredible. I did not know that he was actually quite ill while this
show was being produced (you wouldn't have known from watching him), and I was
saddened to hear that he died shortly after open-heart surgery about 6 months
after the show ended. Darin was truly an original, and I hope to be able to see
episodes of this show sometime in the future.
--Bobby's girl
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