Bobby Darin - Long Line Rider (The Dean Martin Show)

[CBSEye]

Bobby Darin was a musical genius - a man who went his own way. You can pick your favorite phase of his career and be entertained all you want. His "protest" period is one of his best. Congrats to Dean Martin and Greg Garrison who let him sing "Long Line Rider" on their show and thumbs down to Jackie Gleason Enterprises who nixed it earlier. Bobby Lives on YouTube!

[javadude54]

They just don't make them like Bobby Darin anymore. I've never heard him sing a song I didn't like.

[DiamondTreasures]

@ckhthd...Very cool..Joey did in fact mention your cousin Barry many times when we played together as well as other members of Bobby's band. The last time Joe and I worked together was in 1979 when we worked in Anchorage together. He was my favorite guitarist!...Thanks for the comment!

[bossyboots55]

does anyone hve any clips of bobby darin on the flip wilson show. he made a few appearances. it was fantastic when he started to sing.

[bossyboots55]

He looked older than his 36 years .....

[DiamondTreasures]

@puddleg..This guitarist is Joey Lemon who I was in a band with and also good friends with. We worked in several places together in Reno,Nevada.

[ckhthd]

@DiamondTreasures The bass player is my cousin Barry Abernathy

[diannagrana1]

bobby , you are cooler than Sinatra !

[nightimelady]

fantastic fantastic!

[vidnut67]

He only went back to the tux and toupee because he was broke didn't want to "stand in line for medical treatment," which sadly he needed very badly at the time. However, though he went back to the old look, he kept the more gritty material in his act. To me, Darin sounded more like a blue-eyed soul singer at the time of his untimely death.

[chefdj09]

@vidnut67 You are incorrect, he wasn't broke it was about image and people were not use to the new age of BD, for a while he was using Bob Darrin as a stage name! He was probably the most sucessful business man of his time and he never let his tallent go to waste!

[vidnut67]

@chefdj09 I must correct you on your statement about his being broke. Not long after Bobby Kennedy's death, he sold everything he had and lived in a trailer at Big Sur, California. What money he had left he spent making a movie that was never released. He even sold the rights to songs that had been some of his biggest hits, and when the company he sold them to went under the songs were sold off at auction and he never got them back.

[vidnut67]

@chefdj09 Watch the documentary "Beyond the Song". Both the documentary and the song verify what I said. Also, I never said or implied that he wasted his talent; far from it, so an apology is owed to me on that misrepresentation!

[vidnut67]

Bobby could have made a lot more money sticking to his earlier style; Tom Jones and Engelbert Humperdinck were doing a similar style and were very big in the late 1960s. However, it took a lot of guts for Bobby to take the path that he traveled late in his life. Listen to his boxed set, "As Long as I'm Singing." The fourth disc, "The Folk and Country Years," will make you forget the other three.

[puddleg]

Does anyone know the names of the musicians here? His guitarist in on fire. The band are not credited on the LP, Born Robert Walden Cassato.

[dlagrua]

This was Bobby Darins attempt at doing the rock n roll style of the day. While the music was good Bobbys 1950 fans were growing older and did not appeciate it and the teen thought it square. After a short time Bobby put his suit back on and returned to doing the standards and older styleof music that made him popular.

[darinworld]

@cjhardee No it wasn't.

[perana73]

and now they use this song to advertise anchor milk in New Zealand

[tikijane]

@cjhardee I think this was before '72. I remember the song in late 1968 and Bobby on Dean Martin when I was still in high school, about 1969. This story and song were really big deals then. IIRC, the story broke about the time LBJ was deciding not to run in the '68 elections which is referenced in the song (the 68 election cycle, not so much LBJ).

[MOJOPIN1960]

Love it ! Great performance and DYNAMITE song !

[sierria64]

@MOJOPIN1960 funky ... boy this guy was funky

[GoRetroGirl]

Another brilliant Darin performance. It's interesting that this was performed on Dean Martin's show - he was not a fan of rock and roll and modern music of the time.

[chriscarneywatch]

Thank you .. Bobby was an amazing talent.

[josephdupont]

what year was this?

how many years before he died?

[chefdj09]

@josephdupont 4 years He died in Decemeber 1973

[arckick]

The movie "Brubaker" was based on this incident, as I recall...

[tranurse]

@arckick which is a great movie. one of my favorite redford films.

[krobinson95]

i think Bobby Darin's political songs were some of his best. it showed evidence of a active fertile mind and heart. He was unable to stick his head in the sand. I'd listen to him sing the Freedom song anyday and especially now.

A wikipedia article on the Thomas Murton, the criminologist who uncovered the murders and horrific conditions of the prisons mentions this song and said on one show censors wanted Bobby to omit the line about "not in an election year." He refused on walked off the set.

[lildoozcoop]

The Arkansas incident was the subject of Robert Redford's excellent 70's film 'Brubaker'. Bobby Darin was always way ahead of his time.

[Djeispark]

Bobby was the King of Mult-Genre Music. No one can do what he did and no one will ever get that close.

Long live Bobby D's Spirit...its still and always will be inside me and you..

[titofrancona]

ratings had nothing to do with Bobby's switch in styles. Anyone who followed his career knows he jumped around alot and it never had anything to do with trends. He had four ro five rock n roll hits and decided to record an album of standards. He was a Vegas contemporary of Sinatra and decided to do folk albums. He did folk rock at a time when it cost him nite club gigs. He was a brilliant artist guided by his heart, not his wallet

[lildoozcoop]

Hear, hear.

[merri0071]

my fav,of all time. but i live in a jingle jangle jungle, and I'm a ruthless oppurtunist. x

[SwooningCrooner]

though i think this song is great and Bobby is great as well, i just think he should have stayed true to his original style. Like Dean and Frank did. This is like converting to a Beatles sound at the time, which i understand, for ratings reasons, but I will always remember bobby as the original bobby.

[liverpoolishgirl]

Actually Bobby suffered lower sales and fewer gigs. He just wasn't a one-dimensional act. Nobody insisted that the Beatles sing yeah, yeah, yeah on Sgt. Pepper - why wasn't BD allowed to grow and develop, too?

[THEJONESPACK]

What a fantastic performance!!!

[HickoryRose]

This is an amazing performance by Bobby Darin. The song recounts a true incident at a prison farm where convicts were murdered in cold blood and buried.

[liverpoolishgirl]

So, why a -1 rating?