![]() ![]() In fact, Bobby Darin was singing and playing before rock 'n' roll even existed. " And by "back then," Blauner is talking about before Mack The Knife, when Bobby Darin was scuffling the New York streets, looking for a hit any kind of hit. But all of those people back then wanted to be Bobby – he was their Sinatra. "He almost didn't get into the Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame,"says Blauner, "because put on a bow tie. Well, it's a little more complicated than that. You see the problem? Even more than some of the others, Darin stood out: Mister Mack The Knife, wasn't he? The man who, during a very brief 37 years on Earth, made his greatest and arguably most lasting mark as a tuxedoed finger-snapper, fronting a big band and wowing adult audiences at New York's Copacabana and in Las Vegas? Steve Blauner, Bobby Darin's long-time manager and even longer-time friend, heard that question often, stemming from Darin's induction in 1990 – the same year as The Who, Hank Ballard, The Kinks, The Platters, The Four Tops, The Four Seasons, and Simon & Garfunkel. Not to slight their contribution to music, generally, but do they belong in the same Hall of Fame as (say) Chuck Berry, Jerry Lee Lewis and Elvis Presley? The question has been raised relative to soul men and women, folk artists, country singers, rappers, and Miles Davis. More specifically, "was that artist 'rock 'n' roll'?" The Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame – the list of performers, not the museum in Cleveland – has often generated its share of controversy most often having to do with the credentials of one inductee or another. ![]()
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