BOBBY DARIN - BULLMOOSE

BULLMOOSE

BOBBY DARIN

SONGWRITER: BOBBY DARIN

COUNTRY: U.S.A.

ALBUM: TWIST WITH BOBBY DARIN

LABEL: ATCO RECORDS

GENRE: POP

YEAR: 1961

Bobby Darin (born Walden Robert Cassotto; May 14, 1936 – December 20, 1973) was an American singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and actor in film and television. He performed jazz, pop, rock and roll, folk, swing, and country music.

He started his career as a songwriter for Connie Francis. He recorded his first million-selling single, "Splish Splash", in 1958. This was followed by "Dream Lover", "Mack the Knife", and "Beyond the Sea", which brought him worldwide fame. In 1962 he won a Golden Globe Award for his first film, Come September, co-starring his first wife, Sandra Dee.

During the 1960s he became more politically active and worked on Robert F. Kennedy's Democratic presidential campaign. He was present on the night of June 4/5, 1968, at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles at the time of Kennedy's assassination. During the same year, he discovered he had been raised by his grandmother, not his mother, and that the girl he thought was his sister was actually his mother. These events deeply affected Darin and sent him into a long period of seclusion.

Although he made a successful comeback (in television) his health was beginning to fail, as he had always expected following bouts of rheumatic fever in childhood. This knowledge of his vulnerability had always spurred him on to use his musical talent while still young. He died at the age of 37 following a heart operation in Los Angeles.

Did you hear the story 'bout old Bullmoose?

He played piano, really tore it loose.

Whenever his heart was filled with gloom

He'd beat out a song in the old lunchroom.

All the guys and gals would gather 'round

Just to hear that Bullmoose sound.

Sayin'...

Go Bullmoose!

Go Bullmoose!

Go Bullmoose!

Go Bullmoose!

Bullmoose playin' on a Friday night

Two bad boys got up to fight.

One old man yelled, "Hey, keep quiet!"

The next thing you know they started a riot.

While everybody was-a jumpin' around

All you could hear was that Bullmoose sound.

Sayin'...

Go Bullmoose!

Go Bullmoose!

Go Bullmoose!

Go Bullmoose, a-turn 'em loose!

Bullmoose goin' to a party one day

Everybody asked him, "Won't you sit down and play?"

When all of a sudden the room began to shake

"Whoops!" he cried, "It's a real earthquake."

While the people were fallin' into holes in the ground

All you could hear was that Bullmoose sound.

Sayin'...

Go Bullmoose!

Go Bullmoose!

Go Bullmoose!

Go Bullmoose, come on Bullmoose!

Let me hear it like it is, Bullmo...