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.” 
This article appears in December 22 • 2006.
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Greg Beets was born in Lubbock on the day Richard Nixon was elected president. He has covered music for the Chronicle since 1992, writing about everyone from Roky Erickson to Yanni. Beets has also written for Billboard,Uncut, Blurt, Elmore, and Pop Culture Press. Before his digestive tract cried uncle, he co-published Hey! Hey! Buffet!, an award-winning fanzine about all-you-can-eat buffets.
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