Tune Tuesday

Just last month teen idol Bobby Sherman passed away. He would have turned 82 years old today.

Bobby seemed to be everywhere. He was singing on the radio, as well as acting on television and on the big screen. He was a singer on the show “Shindig,” he had a role on “Here Comes the Brides,” and had guest appearances on Emergency!, The Mod Squad, Murder She Wrote, and even Frasier.

Eventually, he left the public spotlight and became a paramedic. He volunteered with the LAPD, working with paramedics and giving CPR and first aid classes. He became a technical Reserve Police Officer with the LAPD in the 1990s, a position he still held as of 2017. For more than a decade he served as a medical training officer at the Los Angeles Police Academy, instructing thousands of police officers in first aid and CPR. He was named LAPD’s Reserve Officer of the Year in 1999.

In March of this year he was diagnosed with stage 4 kidney cancer. He passed away three months later on June 24th.

He left us plenty of music. He released 107 songs, 23 singles and 10 albums between 1962 and 1976. Seven of those were Top 40 hits. The one that always comes to my mind is Julie Do You Love Me, which reached #5 on the Hot 100 chart.

Happy Heavenly Birthday, Bobby!