Here Comes Bobby/With Love, Bobby

RELEASE
August 14, 2001
LABEL
Collectables
GENRES
Pop/Rock, AM Pop, Teen Pop, Bubblegum

Album Review

This two-fer assembles both of Bobby Sherman's 1970 releases on the Metromedia label. Buoyed by the pop smash "Easy Come, Easy Go," Here Comes Bobby is one of Sherman's more engaging LPs. In other words, it's still bubblegum, but its flavor is long-lasting. Credit contributions from top-drawer songwriters including John Sebastian ("She's a Lady") and the team of Cynthia Weil and Barry Mann ("Make Your Own Kind of Music"), which elevate Sherman above the teen idol norm. The singer also contributes two of his own originals, "July Seventeen" and "Two Blind Minds," and proves himself a capable and lively songwriter. With Love, Bobby features two major hits, "Julie Do Ya Love Me" and "Hey Mister Sun," but isn't quite as consistent, forgoing the Brill Building-lite popcraft of Here Comes Bobby in favor of a seemingly arbitrary jumble of genres and styles. Sadly, Collectables' budget-conscious packaging does not reproduce the lavish eight-page photo scrapbook included upon the LP's original release.
Jason Ankeny, Rovi

Track Listing

  1. Easy Come, Easy Go
  2. She's a Lady
  3. Come Close to Me
  4. July Seventeen
  5. The Lady Is Waiting
  6. Turtles and Trees
  7. La (If I Had You)
  8. Two Blind Minds
  9. Make Your Own Kind of Music
  10. Hey, Honey Bun
  11. Fun and Games
  12. Julie, Do You Love Me
  13. Sweet Gingerbread Man [From "The Magic Garden of Stanley Sweetheart"]
  14. I Think I'm Gonna Rain
  15. I'll Never Let You Go
  16. Show Me
  17. Sweet Touch of Life
  18. Hey, Mister Sun
  19. Spend Some Time Lovin' Me
  20. Oklahoma City Times
  21. Message to My Brother
  22. Good for Each Other
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