Music DVDs

Bobby Darin

Seeing Is Believing (Hyena)

Shortly before his death in 1973 at age 37, Bobby Darin starred in an NBC variety show while Dean Martin's program went on summer hiatus. Most of the 20 songs on Seeing Is Believing are culled from this show, though the packaging is too flimsy to offer particulars. Despite the overly genteel format of Seventies variety shows, Darin and his crack band turn out swinging renditions of Jackie Wilson's "Higher and Higher" and Muddy Waters' "Got My Mojo Working." Balancing that out are less-than-inspired arrangements of Bread's "If" and Neil Diamond's "Sweet Caroline."