Bob's Yer Late Uncle: Remembering Bobby Sherman
Celebrating a Deathday™: Oscar-winning songwriter Robert B. "Bobby" Sherman took his final curtain call on this day, March 6, 2012 in London. He was 86'd. Together with conjoined brother Richard M. "Marky" Sherman, Robert Sherman brought the world a string of classic show tunes from award-winning musicals and films including "The Aristocrats," "Winnie the Pooh-Bah," "Mary Pops In (For An Extended Stay)" and "Chitty Chitty Gang Bang." They also wrote the amusement ride theme, “It’s a Small World (After All Is Well Said And Done)”, credited as being the most played song in all of recorded history, outside of that Chuck Mangioni flugelhorn thingy that still haunts my dreams. Remarkably, “Bobby” — and his namesake "Bob" hair style — also enjoyed goodly success as an actor and singer, first coming to fame in the Millard Romney-esque fable “Here Comes the Brides,” alongside bride beater David "Blue Eyed" Soul. Bobby and his puka shells went on to "guest star," which is to say "appear briefly" in the usual shows of the era — The Mod Squad, Ellery the Queen, The Man called U.N.C.L.E. C.H.A.R.L.I.E. and I-Spy-The-Brady-Bunch-Mum-and-Sisters, where he shared screen time and salivary fluids with Marcia or Carol Brady (either way, it wasn’t luckless middle sister Jan). I seem to recall Robert being the voice of the robot on Lost in Space, but don’t quote me on that or I’ll toss you in the virtual lockup. Sherman was, indeed, no slouch as a lisp-singer, climbing the pop charts with "Jennifer Juniper," “Julie, Do Ya' Love Me (In The Biblical Sense)?” — she did, with great haste to the great shame of her father — and “Easy Come, Easy Go.” His easy pop stardom fueled a desire to make more meaningful music, hence teaming with his brother on songs for singing bears, artistocratic felines and flying motorcars. He went from studded, fringed shirts to Bob Fosse tails with equal aplomb, if not Eve Plumb, and one hopes is pounding the keys in the heavens. Happy Anni-hearse-ary™ to Robert B. Sherman!
Celebrating a Deathday™: Oscar-winning songwriter Robert B. "Bobby" Sherman took his final curtain call on this day, March 6, 2012 in London. He was 86'd. Together with conjoined brother Richard M. "Marky" Sherman, Robert Sherman brought the world a string of classic show tunes from award-winning musicals and films including "The Aristocrats," "Winnie the Pooh-Bah," "Mary Pops In (For An Extended Stay)" and "Chitty Chitty Gang Bang." They also wrote the amusement ride theme, “It’s a Small World (After All Is Well Said And Done)”, credited as being the most played song in all of recorded history, outside of that Chuck Mangioni flugelhorn thingy that still haunts my dreams. Remarkably, “Bobby” — and his namesake "Bob" hair style — also enjoyed goodly success as an actor and singer, first coming to fame in the Millard Romney-esque fable “Here Comes the Brides,” alongside bride beater David "Blue Eyed" Soul. Bobby and his puka shells went on to "guest star," which is to say "appear briefly" in the usual shows of the era — The Mod Squad, Ellery the Queen, The Man called U.N.C.L.E. C.H.A.R.L.I.E. and I-Spy-The-Brady-Bunch-Mum-and-Sisters, where he shared screen time and salivary fluids with Marcia or Carol Brady (either way, it wasn’t luckless middle sister Jan). I seem to recall Robert being the voice of the robot on Lost in Space, but don’t quote me on that or I’ll toss you in the virtual lockup. Sherman was, indeed, no slouch as a lisp-singer, climbing the pop charts with "Jennifer Juniper," “Julie, Do Ya' Love Me (In The Biblical Sense)?” — she did, with great haste to the great shame of her father — and “Easy Come, Easy Go.” His easy pop stardom fueled a desire to make more meaningful music, hence teaming with his brother on songs for singing bears, artistocratic felines and flying motorcars. He went from studded, fringed shirts to Bob Fosse tails with equal aplomb, if not Eve Plumb, and one hopes is pounding the keys in the heavens. Happy Anni-hearse-ary™ to Robert B. Sherman!