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Bobby Darin

An outstanding student, Darin graduated from the prestigious Bronx High School of Science and went on to attend Hunter College on a scholarship. Wanting a career in the New York theater, he dropped out of college to play small nightclubs around the city with a musical combo. In the resort area of the Catskill Mountains, he was both a busboy and an entertainer.[2] For the most part teenage Bobby was a comedy drummer and an ambitious but unpolished vocalist.

What really moved things along for Darin was his songwriting partnership, formed in 1955, with fellow Bronx Science student Don Kirshner. In 1956 his agent negotiated a contract for him with Decca Records, where Bill Haley & His Comets had risen to fame. However, this was a time when rock and roll was still in its infancy and the number of capable record producers and arrangers in the field was extremely limited.

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In 1959, Bobby Darin recorded Dream Lover,a ballad that became a multi-million seller.With financial success came the ability to demand more creative control, despite the objections of many people around him. His next record, Mack the Knife, was the classic standard from Kurt Weill's Threepenny Opera. Darin gave the tune a vamping jazz-pop interpretation.

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In 1973, Darin's ill health took a fatal turn when his mechanical heart valve clotted. He had decided to stop taking his anticoagulant drug, warfarin, which he was supposed to do on a daily basis.