Monday 8 April 2019

Here Comes Bobby - BOBBY SHERMAN***

Easy Come Easy Go/She's A Lady/Come Close To Me/July Seventeen/The Lady Is Waiting/Turtles & Trees/La La La (If I Had You)/Two Blind Minds/Make Your Own Kind Of Music/Hey Honey Bun/Fun & Games

Here Comes Bobby was the quick follow up album from lightweight vocalist Bobby Sherman, whose fan base consisted almost entirely of young teen girls. It didn't take the music industry long to discover that more quick bucks could be made promoting artists for their good looks rather than their musical talent. Includes the US top ten hits Easy Come Easy Go and La La La (If I Had You). (US:10)

"A pleasurable album of lightweight pop from congenial teen idol Sherman. Possessed of a not particularly interesting but nonetheless quite inoffensive singing voice, Bobby manages to pull off a couple of giddy pop gems in Easy Come, Easy Go and Hey, Honey Bun, worth the price of the album no matter what you pay. Otherwise I found the rest of the album quite enjoyable. You can feel that bright smile shining through the music."

"One look at a Bobby Sherman LP and you pretty much know it's gonna suck. With the right material though like, say, not covering a Bob Dylan song, as on Sherman's first album, this grinning teen idol's records can offer up a decent sugary marshmallow or two."

"On this album, Sherman's own song, Two Blind Minds is surprisingly rocking. Or it rocks as much as his easy-listening backing group can manage, at least. Sherman also gives us a good version of Danny Janssen's La La La (If I Had You), which bubblegum fans might know from the Josie and The Pussycats album.”

"This music is great. Its from a happy-go-lucky era that quite frankly doesn't exist anymore. For those of us who remember his show, and when these songs came out, they are just as great now as they were then. They make me happy and allow me to forget some of the horrors of this age."

"Bobby was a teen idol back in the late 60s-early 70s.I didn't really remember him, but I enjoy catchy pop, especially from the early 70s that speak of innocence and wonder."

"This is evidence that anyone can have a singing career if enough money is spent promoting it to a target audience of teenage girls. He can't sing, the songs are embarrassingly stupid and he was just another teenage idol for mindless little girls."

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