Hebb Update May 17, 2012
On April 22, 2012 I was able to get this rare 1966 version of "Sunny" by The Mustangs on RCA Victor!
The Mustangs. Brazil Jovem Guarda Band performing a cover version of Sunny. Sung in english.
Rare single pressed in Brazil in 1966.
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Title Side A: Sunny
Title Side B: See you in september
Made in: Brazil
Year, Label: 1966 RCA 6290
A review will be forthcoming once Jason, our transfer guy, puts it to CD for the archives.
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Bobby Hebb in the news!
The Mirror, U.K. May 16, 2012
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When I was pregnant, I wanted to call my child Sunny if she was a girl, after the lovely 1966
Bobby Hebb song.
“Thank you for that smile on your face,” I trilled to my husband.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/lifestyle/family/most-exotic-baby-names-revealed-834454
Allgemeine Zeitung Mainz - May 7, 2012
Zu den Höhepunkten gehörten außerdem Nummern wie „Sunny“ (Bobby Hebb), „Moonlight Serenade“ (Glenn Miller), „In the Mood“ (Joe ...
http://www.allgemeine-zeitung.de/region/bad-kreuznach-bad-sobernheim-kirn/stadt-bad-kreuznach/11946344.htm
Stuttgarter-zeitung.de
Cro-Konzert in Stuttgart
Heimspiel für den Panda
"for his biggest hit easy he sampled Bobby Hebb's song sunny"
Katharina Sorg, 28.04.2012 20:50 Uhr
Für seinen bisher größten Hit "Easy" sampelte er Bobby Hebb´s Song "Sunny", bei "Rockstar" ist es die Melodie von "Banquet" von Bloc Party und bei "Wir waren hier" schwingen die Fans ihre T-Shirts und Pullis zum Beat von "The Passenger" von Iggy Pop durch die Luft. Stören tut das keinen, die Stimmung ist gut.
http://www.stuttgarter-zeitung.de/inhalt.cro-konzert-in-stuttgart-heimspiel-fuer-den-panda.41f0e6f3-873e-4566-b2b2-b0b7e62d49c9.html
LINEMUSICA
Marco Mengoni a Genova: Il soul ronciglionese sotto la Lanterna.
- domenica - 22 aprile 2012
E come dargli torto con delle corde vocali del genere!
Durante questa prima ora, Marco Mengoni and band ci deliziano con l’interpretazione di nuove cover, quali “I cant’ help falling in love” di Elvis Presley, “Sunny” di Bobby Hebb e “Innuendo” dei Queen.
http://www.lineamusica.it/2012/04/marco-mengoni-a-genova-il-soul-ronciglionese-sotto-la-lanterna/
Hörerlebnis auf höchstem Niveau in Bad Kreuznach
08.05.2012 - BAD KREUZNACHVon Beate Vogt-Gladigau
Zu den Höhepunkten gehörten außerdem Nummern wie „Sunny“ (Bobby Hebb), „Moonlight Serenade“ (Glenn Miller), „In the Mood“ (Joe Garland oder die Zugabe „Lady Marmelade“, die alle Dietmar Mensinger speziell für Sound Express arrangiert hatte.
http://www.allgemeine-zeitung.de/region/bad-kreuznach-bad-sobernheim-kirn/stadt-bad-kreuznach/11946344.htm
ONLINE NEWS
Musica/ Al via il “Tour Teatrale” di Marco Mengoni
“I cant’ help falling in love” di Elvis Presley, “Sunny” di Bobby Hebb, “Innuendo” dei Queen, oltre a “Natbush City Limits” di Tina Turner, “Signed, Sealed, Delivered I’m Yours” di Stevie Wonder e “Rehab” di Amy Winehouse.
http://www.online-news.it/2012/04/18/musica-al-via-il-tour-teatrale-di-marco-mengoni/
Bobby Hebb Boxed Set
Update May 14, 2012
Update May 14, 2012
Producer Joe Viglione
Our target release date is September
15, 2012, four months away.
We are discussing sponsorship with
like-minded companies that understand the beauty and importance of this
project.
\Discs 1 and 2 will contain "the
best of" Bobby Hebb as well as rarities. We are being very particular
about the tracks chosen and once we discuss the process the tracks may change...and
change. We would like to have the complete box ready for Christmas 2012.
Our goal is for the audience that
has embraced “Sunny” to have a much better understanding of BobbyHebb's genius; the signature song is the focal
point as well as the avenue where musicians, fans, historians and everyday people
can discover the life's work of this incredible artist.
The title pages of the two websites
BobbyHebb.com and Sunny-the-Song.com – that we are currently composing and
updating have elements from this boxed set’s material in them.
The Sunny Box – our nickname for Vol
1 - will be a treasure chest of different versions of “Sunny” by Bobby, along
with songs spanning his entire career.
It is a delicious collector’s item that fans of "Sunny" will be
able to explore. And we’re hoping that artists
from around the world will record not only “Sunny” in a variety of languages,
but other Bobby Hebb songs that strike a chord within them, that speak to them
and, in turn, help them communicate that spirit and vibration to the world.
...In a perfect world we'd have 4
audio discs and a DVD (5 discs)...actually, in a perfect world we'd have 10
volumes with all of Bobby's work included ...and maybe Vol.1 will lead to that. It’s a first step.
Any thoughts on the ideas presented
here are most welcome. Potential
sponsors interested in working with us to bring the Sunny Box to libraries in
cities, towns and colleges around the world should contact us to discuss the
possibilities.
Joe Viglione
Executive Producer
Bobby Hebb Boxed Set
Executive Producer
Bobby Hebb Boxed Set
Bobby Hebb.com
P.O. Box 2392
Woburn, MA 01888
http://www.bobbyhebb.com
P.O. Box 2392
Woburn, MA 01888
http://www.bobbyhebb.com
Hebb_Project [@] yahoo.com
SUNNY - The Bobby Hebb Anthology
Boxed Set
Boxed Set
Proposed Release Date: September 15
2012
Label: Hebb Cats Recordings
Copyright © 2010 Hebb Cats recordings
Copyright © 2010 Hebb Cats recordings
DISC 1
1)Sunny (Original 1966 hit, stereo)
2:45
2)Sunny (Jerry Ross demo)
3)You Want To Change Me
4)Love LoveLove
5)A Natural Man (Bobby Hebb/Sandy Baron) from Bernard Purdie album
6)Proud Soul Heritage (45 RPM)
7)A Satisfied Mind from Uni/original Sunny CD
8)Dreamy (demo)
9)Charms of the Arms of Love (demo)
10)Love Me (from Philips 45)
11)Nancy (with the Laughing Face) from Bobby Hebb Live
12)Got My Mojo Working from Bobby Hebb Live
13)Cut It Out from Bobby Hebb Live
14)Tree Top High (from Portable Publishing Demos)
15)Love You (from Portable Publishing Demos)
16)True I Love You (Laurie Single, b/w Proud Soul Heritage)
17)Proud Soul Heritage (Live, 1971, with Ron Carter on bass)
18)Sunny (Live, on TV 1971 with Ron Carter on bass)
19)A Natural Man (live, on TV 1971 with Ron Carter on bass)
20)Sunny 1998 re-mastered by Jon Wyner and Joe Viglione
2)Sunny (Jerry Ross demo)
3)You Want To Change Me
4)Love LoveLove
5)A Natural Man (Bobby Hebb/Sandy Baron) from Bernard Purdie album
6)Proud Soul Heritage (45 RPM)
7)A Satisfied Mind from Uni/original Sunny CD
8)Dreamy (demo)
9)Charms of the Arms of Love (demo)
10)Love Me (from Philips 45)
11)Nancy (with the Laughing Face) from Bobby Hebb Live
12)Got My Mojo Working from Bobby Hebb Live
13)Cut It Out from Bobby Hebb Live
14)Tree Top High (from Portable Publishing Demos)
15)Love You (from Portable Publishing Demos)
16)True I Love You (Laurie Single, b/w Proud Soul Heritage)
17)Proud Soul Heritage (Live, 1971, with Ron Carter on bass)
18)Sunny (Live, on TV 1971 with Ron Carter on bass)
19)A Natural Man (live, on TV 1971 with Ron Carter on bass)
20)Sunny 1998 re-mastered by Jon Wyner and Joe Viglione
1)Sunny (Bobby Hebb) 2:45 Philips
#40365 45 RPM
One of the most recorded titles in pop music history. Remastered in 2004 by Gavin Lurssen (who has worked on multiple Grammy-winning albums) and Uni’s Heather Whitten for the re-release on HipO Select that Bobby & I were part of in 2004.
One of the most recorded titles in pop music history. Remastered in 2004 by Gavin Lurssen (who has worked on multiple Grammy-winning albums) and Uni’s Heather Whitten for the re-release on HipO Select that Bobby & I were part of in 2004.
In 1997 “Sunny” was included in the
6 cd Beg Scream & Shout box which won the Grammy Award for Best Boxed or
Special Limited Edition Package. In 2005 “Sunny” was included in Night Train To
Nashville which won a Grammy for Best Historical Album co-produced by Michael
Gray of the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum. Bobby’s Grammy is on his
website, BobbyHebb.com
2)Sunny (demo recorded by producer
Jerry Ross)
3)You Want To Change Me (Kenny
Gamble/Leon Huff) 2:46 Philips #40551
The second of two Northern Soul hits
for Bobby, and his final 45 RPM on Philips Records, catalog #40551, is a
phenomenal slice of Northern Soul and Space Age Bachelor Pad music. "You
Want To Change Me" b/w "Dreamy" borrows heavily from the sounds
of Star Trek and The Fifth Dimension's rendition of Jimmy Webb's "Up, Up
and Away" (take a ride in my beautiful balloon). Those elements aren't
there in the demo of "Dreamy" that Bobby tracked at this point in
time, circa 1968.
4)Love LoveLove (Jerry Ross/Joe
Renzetti) 3:02 Philips #40400
Launched six years after the Sunny album was released, hitting the Top 40 in the United Kingdom this song was actually the flip side of Bobby’s second American hit, a cover of Porter Wagoner’s big big 1950s hit “A Satisfied Mind”.
Launched six years after the Sunny album was released, hitting the Top 40 in the United Kingdom this song was actually the flip side of Bobby’s second American hit, a cover of Porter Wagoner’s big big 1950s hit “A Satisfied Mind”.
5)A Natural Man (Bobby Hebb/Sandy
Baron)
From Visual Radio, 1998 with Thomas Hebb on bass. This song was an out-take from Eskimo, a proposed Broadway show being written by actor/comedian Sandy Baron – Bobby’s very close friend, and Bobby.
From Visual Radio, 1998 with Thomas Hebb on bass. This song was an out-take from Eskimo, a proposed Broadway show being written by actor/comedian Sandy Baron – Bobby’s very close friend, and Bobby.
Lou Rawls recorded it along with
“His Song Shall Be Sung”, a tune for Marvin Gaye, both on the MGM label. At the
14th Grammys this won Best R & B Vocal Performance, Male for Lou Rawls,
March 15, 1972.
6)Proud Soul Heritage (Bobby Hebb) Laurie Records/EMI LR 3632
One of Bobby’s favorite titles - this is the original version as released on a 45 RPM on Laurie Records.
7)A Satisfied Mind (Hayes/Rhodes)
Live from the Grand Ole Opry this
rendition of Philips #40400, a big American hit for
Bobby Hebb, was recorded in the new millennium when Bobby was awarded 6 million
spins of SUNNY from BMI.
Bobby Hebb, was recorded in the new millennium when Bobby was awarded 6 million
spins of SUNNY from BMI.
8)Dreamy (Bobby Hebb) demo version
We got this publishing demo off of eBay, believe it or not, along with a demo of The Charms of the Arms Of Love.
We got this publishing demo off of eBay, believe it or not, along with a demo of The Charms of the Arms Of Love.
9)The Charms Of The Arms of Love
(Demo)
This song would appear produced by
James Fleming Rasmussen (who had a hit, “Echo Park” with Keith Barbour on Epic
records) on Bobby’s Epic Records release LOVE GAMES.
10)Love Me Philips 40421 2:06 (Kenny
Gamble/Jerry Ross)
Perhaps this song should have been the
immediate follow-up to “Sunny”, two of the three songwriters who penned “I’m
Gonna Make You Love Me”, with exquisite Jerry Ross production, it’s just a
great response to “Sunny”. As terrific as “A Satisfied Mind” is – and was –
establishing the audience that “Sunny” found was key…of course I’m being a
Monday morning quarterback but…
11) Nancy (With the Laughing Face)
(Jimmy Van Heusen/Phil Silvers) One of two versions of this song that Bobby
recorded with me. This one was recorded with the Kubota Powerjazz Unit in
Bridgewater, Massachusetts. Co-written by Phil Silvers, the comedian, it was a
big Frank Sinatra classic. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_%28With_the_Laughing_Face%29
12)Got My Mojo Working
Live from Visual Radio 1998
This was Bobby’s signature tune prior to “Sunny”. That’s why they called him Mojo. This rendition was recorded with Thomas Hebb on bass.
13)Cut It Out (Little Willie Brown)
This is the rendition that Bobby
played for me on my third edition of Visual Radio onAugust 26, 1995. We edited
the show on August 29, 1995
14)Tree Top High from the Portable Publishing Demos
15)Love You from the Portable Publishing
Demos
16)True, I Love You This was the flip
of Proud Soul Heritage
17) Proud Soul Heritage (Live, 1971, with Ron Carter on bass)
18)Sunny (Live, on TV 1971 with Ron Carter on bass)
19)A Natural Man (live, on TV 1971 with Ron Carter on bass)
18)Sunny (Live, on TV 1971 with Ron Carter on bass)
19)A Natural Man (live, on TV 1971 with Ron Carter on bass)
These three songs were recorded with
Ron Carter for a live TV show
20)Sunny Live May 1998 recorded for Visual Radio
Remastered with Jonathan Wyner on
November 24, 2010
August 26, 1995. We edited the show
on August 29, 1995 and on November 24, 2010, the day before Thanksgiving,
Jonathan Wyner and I remastered ; I added some production and here is a very
intimate and stunning version of the classic.
FOREWORD
Sunny - The Bobby Hebb Anthology - begins with Bobby’s timeless 1966 classic as originally produced by Jerry Ross for Philips Records, and then takes you through a musical journey that is a textbook of Americana, rhythm and blues, country, soul, gospel and pop. Through this adventure in sound the spirit of Robert “Bobby” Hebb - as heard through his formidable intuition and his musical skills - will entertain, enlighten and teach.
Though “Sunny” is the centerpiece of
the collection - including totally different versions performed by Bobby
through the decades, it is also the guidepost. In addition to the superb chord
changes, soothing vocal and inspiring words found in his signature tune there
are other melodies and tales to tell. The world of Northern Soul is graced with
the magic of both Jerry Ross and the production team of Gamble & Huff with
“Love LoveLove” and “You Want To Change Me”, respectively, finding their way
into the hearts of tens of thousands of fans of that musical genre.
Four years after “Sunny” while Sly & the Family Stone were recording There’s A Riot Going On, Bobby was in the larger studio at the same facility recording what I call in the AMG review of the Epic/Sony release “as exquisite an album of adult contemporary R&B as you'll find.” Why this production by James Fleming Rasmussen didn’t change the direction of soul music as we know it when Lou Rawls and Gamble &; Huff were about to saturate the charts is not only a mystery, it is a notable flaw in the way great music is left to its own devices without the marketing that it deserves.
This collection of music will dig very, very deep into the lost mines and bring out treasures that are crying to be heard again. From Bobby’s early days with the honky tonk legend, Poppa John Gordy, playing spoons and wind instruments on Bullet Records when he was about 12 years of age, during the same period of time when he was schooled on the road with the King of the Hillbillies, the legendary Roy Acuff, this anthology will bring to light Bobby Hebb’s special skills as - what his sideman Nat Simpkins noted - are the skills of a man he considers the most musical man in the world.
Part of the idea is to sprinkle a variety of renditions of “Sunny” throughout this boxed set, culminating in a terrific live version on the audio documentary, Disc 3 tapes on the date of August 17, 1966 at the Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, Canada with the Epic group Barry And The Remains providing the back-up on the Beatles tour. The audio is from the audience, but the historical importance makes this gem a precious listen for fans of Bobby, The Remains and the Fab 4!
In a perfect world Brian Epstein might’ve signed the entire list of groups from the tour to one label – four years later Epic would sign Bobby Hebb while The Remains had disbanded. In retrospect, how do groups go from opening for the Beatles and then disbanding? That’s the time-old question, how an artist of such extraordinary talent – and success – such as Bobby Hebb – and a group that would develop a huge cult following – the Remains – how they didn't receive a five album deal with the labels they were on?
Bobby’s legacy on Philips Records is
a group of terrific 45 RPMS including “You Want To Change Me’, a huge Northern
Soul underground smash that has been bootlegged multiple times and found itself
going for huge dollars on the internet, over one hundred dollars per copy at
times for the promotional 45 RPM.
Ian Levine, a producer who is an
expert on Northern Soul, videotaped Bobby performing both “Love LoveLove” and
“You Want To Change Me”. Those clips, as well as the Grand Ole Opry
performances, are included on Disc 5, the respectful two hour documentary on
Bobby’s life.
Joe Viglione
Executive Producer
Bobby Hebb Boxed Set
Bobby Hebb.com
P.O. Box 2392
Woburn, MA 01888
http://www.bobbyhebb.com
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