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"Dream Lover" was written and composed by American singer Bobby Darin. Released as a single in 1959, the recording reached the #2 spot on the U.S. charts, #4 on the R&B chart, and became a multi-million seller. The song features a young and up coming Neil Sedaka on piano. Darin was a multi-instrumentalist, and an actor in film and television as well. He performed jazz, pop, rock and roll, folk, swing, and country music over his shortened life and career. Following bouts of rheumatic fever in childhood, he knew his health was beginning to fail as he had always expected. He died at the age of 37 following a heart operation. During the 1960's, he became politically active and worked on Robert F. Kennedy's Democratic presidential campaign, and was present at the time of Kennedy's assassination. Although born Robert Cassotto, the story goes that he became Bobby Darin thanks in part to the sign at a take out restaurant where the letters M, A, and N on the light-up sign "MANDARIN" were not working, leaving only "DARIN", and he then decided to adopt the name. Darin won the Grammy Award for Record of the Year in 1960, and voted the Grammy Award for Best New Artist as well. His best known song, "Mack The Knife", was honored with a Grammy Hall of Fame Award.
"Dream Lover" was written and composed by American singer Bobby Darin. Released as a single in 1959, the recording reached the #2 spot on the U.S. charts, #4 on the R&B chart, and became a multi-million seller. The song features a young and up coming Neil Sedaka on piano. Darin was a multi-instrumentalist, and an actor in film and television as well. He performed jazz, pop, rock and roll, folk, swing, and country music over his shortened life and career. Following bouts of rheumatic fever in childhood, he knew his health was beginning to fail as he had always expected. He died at the age of 37 following a heart operation. During the 1960's, he became politically active and worked on Robert F. Kennedy's Democratic presidential campaign, and was present at the time of Kennedy's assassination. Although born Robert Cassotto, the story goes that he became Bobby Darin thanks in part to the sign at a take out restaurant where the letters M, A, and N on the light-up sign "MANDARIN" were not working, leaving only "DARIN", and he then decided to adopt the name. Darin won the Grammy Award for Record of the Year in 1960, and voted the Grammy Award for Best New Artist as well. His best known song, "Mack The Knife", was honored with a Grammy Hall of Fame Award.
