Sunday, April 04, 2010

Remember Former Teen Idol Bobby Sherman?


Back in the late 60's into the early 70's, Bobby Sherman was all the rage with the TIGER BEAT Magazine set. He was a huge star at the time with a number of top ten hit singles that did well on the charts. But, the road to fame actually took many years for Sherman, who started recording singles as early as 1962 such as "Judy, You'll Never Know", which sold poorly. Around 1964, Sherman got a small break by appearing as a singer on the teen-oriented music show, SHINDIG.


In 1968, Sherman got another big opportunity when he was cast as the handsome, but bashful logger, Jeremy Bolt, in HERE COME THE BRIDES. Bobby Sherman also managed his first true breakout hit single, "Little Women" in 1969 while appearing on the show. Suddenly Sherman was a star.


HERE COME THE BRIDES was a strange sort of variation on the Western show, in that it was part drama and part comedy. This very lightweight sort of Western wasn't really very popular with too many fans of the Western genre, and show struggled on for just two years to find an audience before cancellation. But, Bobby Sherman became the breakout star from the show. David Soul also later emerged as a popular entity as well.


Most of Bobby Sherman's biggest hits were from 1969 to 1970, as in 1971 his appeal started to quickly fade as other teen idols began to replace him in TIGER BEAT and the other teen fan magazines. But Sherman continued to record singles, but with less and less chart action


Many of Sherman's singles seemed to be strangely reflective not only of love, but that his popularity would someday disappear, such as "Easy Come, Easy Go", "Cried Like A Baby", "Is Anybody There?", "Mr. Success" and "Our Last Song Together", his final 1975 single recorded for Janus Records. Sherman's last new studio album, REMEMBERING YOU was released in 1976 on a small record label.


As his musical and acting career began to fade, Bobby Sherman became a celebrity volunteer for the Los Angeles Police, with CPR and other life saving skills. Sherman saved many lives. And later, Sherman became a deputy sheriff with the San Bernardino County Sheriff. Sherman was always a very decent man, and his humanitarian efforts have been given many awards.


Sherman loved Disneyland's Main Street so much that he built a 1/5 scale model of the famous fictitious avenue at his home.


Today, at age 66, Sherman continues to do humanitarian and volunteer work. Sherman humbly adds, "I've been bestowed a mountain of blessings. I felt a need to start giving back".

2 Comments:

At 7:19 AM, Blogger Unknown said...

Very interesting to read this information on B. Sherman. We have a channel called "Retro TV" and his show came on and it brought back a lot of memories. Not having heard of him in a lot of years, I decided to Google him to see what he looks like now and what he has been up to. I really enjoyed reading about what a great guy he is. Thanks. Donna
http://mylife-in-stories.blogspot.com

 
At 7:46 AM, Blogger Unknown said...

Little Woman

 

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