Bobby Sherman first appeared on television in 1964 as a house singer on the TV show Shindig, where he would sing other performers’ hits if they were unable or unwilling to appear on the show. While on Shindig, he released a few singles in an attempt to have a recording career, but he did not have much luck at that time.
Here is a commercial for milk that Bobby Sherman made while on Shindig:
He landed a role on the televison series Here Come the Brides, based on the film Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, as Jeremy Bolt (David Soul - Hutch on Starsky & Hutch - played his older brother). The show aired on ABC for 2 seasons (1968-70) with a total of 52 episodes.
After the success of Here Come The Brides, Sherman went on to record several hit records, earning seven gold singles and five gold albums. In 1969 he peaked at #3 on the Billboard charts and spent nine weeks in the top 20, with the song “Little Woman.” He released four million-selling songs between 1969 and 1970, and during his career he sold more than 10 million records. The television series and the hit songs (as well as a flashy smile and shag haircut) made him a hit with teenage girls, and he was heavily featured in a number of teen idol fan magazines such as Tiger Beat, 16 Magazine, Flip and Fave.
One of my first records was a Bobby Sherman record from the back of a box of Post “Frosted Rice Krinkles” cereal. My sister and I had to put the record in a book to flatten it after we cut it out. We also had to balance a quarter on the stylus of our record player in order to weigh it down enough so the tone arm wouldn’t go flying off when we played it. I remember that when we finally got the record to play, due to the fidelity of the cardboard record, the songs sounded as if they were recorded on old Edison wax cylinders.
Bobby Sherman also had his image featured on a number of items, such as trading cards, pins, watches, comic books and lunch boxes:
After an appearance on The Partridge Family, he was given his own show on ABC, called Getting Together. It was a Partridge Family spin-off show about a pair of struggling songwriters who live in an antique shop. The show ran for only one season, and was never very popular.
In the early 1970s he married Patti Carmel, and in 1979 she left him to marry David Soul, his TV brother from Here Come the Brides (Soul ended up physically abusing her and she eventually divorced him).
Bobby Sherman was never associated in any way with the sixties counterculture or made any political stands, and instead focused on building a one-fifth scale model of Disneyland’s Main Street (entirely by hand) in his yard at home.
He continued to do guest starring roles on shows such as Fantasy Island, Love Boat and Murder She Wrote through the 70’s and 80’s. He also appeared on several episodes of “Emergency” where he became interested in that type of work. He soon volunteered with the Los Angeles Police Department, focusing on paramedic, CPR, and first aid classes as a medical training officer. He currently serves as a member of the San Bernardino County Sheriff, as an Emergency Medical Technician. He is married to Brigitte Poublon, who is the president of the Bobby Sherman Volunteer EMT Foundation, though for some reason he has tried to keep their marriage a secret.
In 1970 Bobby Sherman released a Christmas album, creatively titled “Christmas Album.” He sings on one of the cuts, “Christmas Is (Make It Sweet),” with two young boys named David and Sean. They are not his own sons (they were born several years later), and it is never fully explained exactly who these two mystery boys are. Later, when the songs were repackaged for the CD “My Christmas Wish,” they were also remastered with way too much reverb, making most of the vocal tracks sound like they’re coming from the bottom of a well.
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One of the best parts of your blog is your memories of these “artists” from your youth. This has become one of the sites I visit on a daily basis.
And they sure do sound like they’re at the bottom of a well. “Precious?”
great song