PREVIOUS NEWS...It is with great sadness that we read this morning of the passing of the Godfather of Soul, James Brown.James Brown leaves us on Christmas Morning, 2006 James sings "Sunny" on the second volume of SUNNY tunes -A Collection of Various Musical Interpretations of SUNNY, Part 2 with James Brown It's the first track on the disc. It's been a rough year with many of our friends leaving us - Wilson Pickett almost a year ago on January 19, 2006 - his great version of SUNNY appearing on Part 1 of the Sunny compilations:A Collection of Various Musical Interpretations of SUNNY, Part 1 with Wilson Pickett We at BobbyHebb.comwant to send out positive vibrations to these legends and acknowledge their contributions to the world of music.Despite the sadness, we wish everyone a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. Long Live James Brown and Wicked Wilson Pickett!Webmaster, BobbyHebb.com Bobby appeared at: The Bluegrass Gibson Showcase at Opryland in Nashville, October 10th Gibson's Press Release The Gibson Showcase 161 Opry Mills Drive Nashville, TN 37214 U.S.A. 615-514-2200 ext. 2231 [email protected] Calendar In 1966 Sunny hit #1 in Cashbox - but that was far from the beginning of the story. Bobby Hebb played lead guitar on the 1962 hit "Rinky Dinky" by Dave "Baby" Cortez. He also played guitar for the great Roscoe Shelton, John Lee Hooker, and replaced Mickey Baker in the duo "Mickey & Sylvia". Sylvia Robinson continued to sing "Love Is Strange" onstage at The Blue Morrocco, only it was as part of the "Bobby & Sylvia" team. Click here for Bobby Hebb on AllMusicHere's the biography of Roscoe Shelton:Click here for Roscoe Shelton's biography for early information on Bobby Hebb Bobby also toured with Jimmy Page & The Yardbirds, Brian Hyland, Gary Lewis & The Playboys and many others.Summer 1966 the song "A Satisfied Mind" also hit the Top 40 for Bobby Hebb. It was a smash for Porter Wagoner in the 1950s.In 1972 the song "Love Love Love" re-launched from the 6 year old Sunny album to become a huge "Northern Soul" Top 40 hit in the United Kingdom.click on here to go directly to BobbyHebb.com or you can write to [email protected] "You Want To Change Me" is tearing up eBay at expensive prices, yet another Northern Soul hit for Bobby Hebb, it was one of the first productions by the legendary production team of Gamble & Huff.
Bobby Hebb on THE TORPEDO BOYZ CDTorpedo Boyz on My SpaceTorpedo Boyz home pageTorpedo Boyz on eMusic.com Bobby Hebb's interview has become a song on Torpedo Boyz "Trust, Integrity and Pure Love (feat. Bobby Hebb)" (Track 6), a soundbite available on eMusic.com Torpedo Boyz on Amazon.com
You can listen to Bobby Hebb on WFMU tonight at 6 PM:WFMU Audio StreamWFMU, Jersey City, New JerseyBobby is the co-author of the Grammy winning song "A Natural Man" (Grammy for singer Lou Rawls), and author / singer of "Sunny", which is on the Grammy winning album "Night Train To Nashville" (Grammy certificate on http://www.bobbyhebb.com ). "Love Love Love" by Bobby was a top 40 hit on the BBC in the U.K., while "A Satisfied Mind" hit the Top 40 in America after "Sunny". Bobby played guitar with Bo Diddley, John Lee Hooker, Roscoe Shelton, Baby Cortez (on Rinky Dink), Sylvia Robinson and many others.Please tune in - he's a fascinating man. His myspace is http://myspace.com/sunnybobbyhebb where you can see James Brown, The 4 Tops, Cher and others performing "Sunny"6 of Bobby's recordings for RICH RECORDS will be released in 2007 on THE RICH RECORDS STORY (SPV). Thanks to Fred James for that information. THANKS TO PAULA STREET FOR PLAYING SUNNY ON OLDIES 103Boston Board http://www.radio-info.com/smf/index.php/topic,63997.msg45248 3.html#msg45248WFMU / New Jersey has an interview by Dorian Devins with Bobby Hebb tonight, 2/19/07 at 6:02 PMhttp://wfmu.org/audiostream.shtml WFMU P.O. Box 2011 Jersey City , NJ 07303-2011Here is how to listen on the stream:http://wfmu.org/ssaudionet.shtmlWFMU is an independent freeform radio station broadcasting at 91.1 fm in the New York City area, at 90.1 fm in the Hudson Valley, and live on the web in Realaudio, or in Windows Media, as well as two flavors of MP3, and all programs archived in MP3 and Realaudio.
SUNNY DOWNLOADS! We are compiling available versions of SUNNY on ITunes and other digital download services. Joe Jewell has an excellent rendition which you can get here:Joe Jewell QuartetRIVERSO's 2006 versions of SUNNY - 2 different mixes available on download:Two mixes of RIVERSO's rendition of Bobby Hebb's masterpiece, "Sunny"
A Tribute to The Songwriting of Bobby Hebb - we're planning on a Tribute to Bobby's incredible songwriting skills. Here are renditions of songs that were covered by other artists. Anyone with ideas on this project feel free to contact us at [email protected] 1)My Best Friend - Roscoe Shelton2)Would You Believe - Grady Tate 3)His Song Shall Be Sung - Lou Rawls Co-written by Bobby Hebb & Sandy Baron, it is a tribute to Marvin Gaye 4)A Natural Man - Lou Rawls 5)A Natural Man - Ron Sunshine 6)I Need A Natural Man - Liza Minnelli 7)Would You Believe - Bobby Harrison drummer on Procol Harum's Whiter Shade of Pale who was signed to CBS as POWERPACK and covered this song. He also recorded "Sunny" on CBS under his own name. 8)Hard Hard Promises - Alice Clark9)Don't You Care - Alice Clark 10)Charms Of The Arms Of Love - Alice Clark 11)Love You - Ingrid Saxon12)Sunny - Mieko Hirota 13)Sunny - Dave Pike 14)The Bostonian - Bobby Hebb 15)Trust, Integrity & Pure Love - Torpedo Boyz featuring Bobby Hebb 16)Would You Believe - William Hunt