Bobby Sherman was born in Santa Monica, California on July 22 1943. He grew up in Van Nuys, California. His father owned and operated his own milk delivery service, Woodland Hills Dairy. Bobby Sherman took to music while he was still young, and growing up he knew how to play guitar, piano, French horn, trumpet, trombone, and drums.
He graduated from Birmingham High School in Van Nuys in 1961, and then studied child psychology at Pierce College in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles. His first single,"Judy, You'll Never Know (I'll Never Tell You)," came out in 1962. He followed it with a few singles that did not chart. It was while he was attending Pierce College that his girlfriend took him to a cast party for the movie The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965). Bobby Sherman got up and sang with the band at the party, which led actors Natalie Wood, Jane Fonda, and Sal Mineo to approach him and offer to help him with a music career. This would lead to Bobby Sherman becoming a regular on the ABC music series Shindig!.
It was in 1965 that Bobby Sherman made his acting debut in a guest appearance on an episode of Honey West. In the late Sixties, he guest starred on the shows The Monkees and The F.B.I. It was in 1968 that he began playing the role of Jeremy Bolt on the TV series Here Come the Brides. He appeared in the movie Wild in the Streets.
It would be from the latte Sixties into the Seventies that Bobby Sherman's music career would be at its height. His first major hit was "Little Woman" in 1969, which went to no. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100. That same year "La La La (If I Had You)" would go to no. 9 on the chart. Over the next few years he would have such hits as "Easy Come, Easy Go," "Hey, Mister Sun," "Julie, Do You Love Me," and "Cried Like a Baby." His last major hit would be "The Drum" in 1971, although he would continue to release singles until 1975.
It was in 1971 that he guest starred on The Partridge Family in an episode that was a backdoor pilot for the TV series Getting Together. Getting Together did not prove to be a success, lasting for only 14 episodes. In the Seventies, he guest starred on the shows Cade's County, The Mod Squad, Emergency!, Ellery Queen, Jigsaw John, and Flying High. He appeared in the movie He is My Brother (1975). It was following his guest appearance on Emergency! that Bobby Sherman decided to become a paramedic. He worked as an emergency medical technician who trained paramedic in CPR at the Los Angeles Police Academy and also served as a reserve police officer in L.A. and a deputy sheriff in San Bernardino County.
Bobby Sherman would continue to appear from time to time on TV shows and in movies, making guest appearances on Fantasy Island; The Misadventures of Sheriff Lobo; The Love Boat; Murder, She Wrote; Blacke's Magic; and Frasier. He was a regular on the short-lived sitcom Sanchez of Bel-Air in 1986. He appeared in the film Get Crazy (1983).
|It was in 1998 that Bobby Sherman returned to the stage as part of the "Teen Idol Tour" alongside Peter Noone of Herman's Hermits and Davy Jones of The Monkees. In 2011 he and his wife Brigitte founded the Brigitte & Bobby Sherman Children’s Foundation.
I can't speak for Bobby Sherman's musical career, as I never have listened to his music, but I always did enjoy him as an actor. I particularly remember him well as the vain, egomaniacal beach movie star Frankie Catalina in the Monkees episode "Monkees at the Movies." In the Emergency! episode "Fools," he played an arrogant intern, Dr. Donaldson, whom Dr. Brackett (Robert Fuller) orders to ride with Squad 51 for a day to teach him humility. Not all of Bobby Sherman's characters were as unpleasant as Frankie Catalnia and Dr. Donaldson. On Ellery Queen he played Doug Carmichael, the brother-in-law of an eccentric inventor and one of the few who knew the inventor was still at himself. Of course, when it comes to acting I suspect he will always be remembered best as the stammering Jeremy Bolt on Here Come the Brides. Bobby Sherman was certainly talented and he was always entertaining.
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