Have a listen
Did You Know??
Although Bobby
didn't appear in the movie Because They're Young, his song "Swingin'
School" was a part of the soundtrack. It hit the billboard top 40 on
May 16,1960 and stayed for 8 weeks peaking #5.
Did You Know??
A) Bobby spent 3 weeks performing for the troops in Viet Nam in 1966.
B) Academy Award winning actor James Dunn (1945 Best Supporting Actor) co-starred with Bobby Rydell in a network television pilot
"Swingin' Together"
Did You Know??
Tidbit #1:
In 1963 Bobby played Private Gifford Tyler on "Rockabye the Infantry". He
was a young Army enlisted man, who decides that he could make a little extra
cash running a babysitting service on post.
Tidbit #2:
Bobby appeared on Bandstand for his 16th birthday with his mother and
father and they had a three tiered cake that said, "Happy Birthday Bobby, whoa, yeah"
Did You Know??
When Bobby was on the The Paul Whiteman TV Teen Club he won his family's first TV set! It was an RCA Victor.
He also won a RCA 45 rpm record player and a crate of Tootsie Rolls on the same show!
Did You Know??
That singer George Clinton is coming out with an album 9/08 featuring a cover version of Bobby's "Kissin' Time"
Did You Know??
Bobby Rydell was the first artist to release an entire album for Cameo Parkway records. During his tenure with the label (1959-1964), he released 16 albums with the label (including compilations and collaborations with Chubby Checker;not including reissues of material with various other C-P label artists). -source: bsnpubs.com-"The Cameo Parkway Story."
Did You Know??
Did you know that in 1966 when Bobby appeared at the Copacabana night club
in NYC that Danny Thomas made a guest appearance there just for Bobby? Danny Thomas went around to all the tables and was saying nothing but great
things about Bobby!!!!
Sent in by a fan who was there that night as her high school graduation present &
witnessed it!
Did You Know??
That Frankie Avalon had a band when he was 15 and asked
neighborhood pal, Bobby Ridarelli a/k/a Bobby Rydell, to fill in at a gig when his drummer was sick. Today, they still hang out on stages
together. That same night Bobby met his soon-to-be manager, Frank Day.
Did You Know??
Billboard lists Bobby Rydell as earning 34
Top 40 hits, making him one of the Top 5 artists of his era.
Did You Know??
In the movie Parent Trap (1961 with Haley Mills) the walls at the camp are adorned with
posters of Bobby Rydell and Elvis.
Did You Know??
Bobby had 3 questions about him in the Baby Boomer Edition of Trivial Pursuit
1. What early rocker appeared in the film version of Bye Bye Birdie?
2. Whose last big hit was 1963's Forget Him?
3. What city spawned Bobby Rydell, Frankie Avalon and Fabian?
Did You Know??
In Bob Dylan's autobiography, "Chronicles, Volume I" Dylan, whose real
name is Bobby Zimmerman, said he changed his name to "Bob Dylan" vs. "Bobby Dylan" as he did not want to be confused with Bobby Darin,
Bobby Rydell or Bobby Vee....
Did You Know??
Bill O'Reilly was a guest on "The View" Nov 13, 2007. On the program he
said when he was a teenager all he wanted "was to be Bobby Rydell
Did You Know??
Bobby used to do Public Service Announcements (PSA's) for the St. Jude Research
Hospital with Danny Thomas. Bobby was the National Teen Chairman @ St. Jude's Hospital at one time.
Did You Know??
Popular Irish singer/songwriters Charlie McGettigan and Paul Harrington recorded this great tune Whatever Happened to Bobby Rydell
Did You Know??
Did you know PSAT tests in the United States currently contain a question about
Bobby Rydell
Did You Know??
Question: Paul McCartney has said that an old Bobby Rydell song Forget
Him was the original inspiration for writing what famous Beatle recording?
Answer: "She Loves You" Inspired by Bobby Rydell's Forget Him Paul McCartney had the idea to write an
answer song to Forget Him and She Loves You was born
Sources: About.com&
http://oldies.about.com/od/britishinvasion/a/shelovesyou.htm
Wikipedia.org
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/She_Loves_You
Did You Know??
There is yet another Rydell-Beatles connection in the history books? Paul McCartney has stated in The Beatles Anthology that Bobby Rydell was also an inspiration for a lot of the Yeah Yeah's used in She Loves You
Remember the Yeah Yeahs and Whoa Whoa's his background singers were so famous for.
Listen to this cool song entitled:
"Whatever happened to Bobby Rydell"
By Charlie McGettigan and Paul Harrington
"Obviously Charlie McGettigan and Paul Harrington haven't checked out Bobby's website, but we really enjoyed this tune by them..........Whatever
happened to Bobby Rydell?"
