News & Information about BOBBY HEBB!

Bobby Hebb spoke on February 19, 2005 at a library in Nashville, Tennessee just six days after the fantastic NIGHT TRAIN TO NASHVILLE compilation won a GRAMMY AWARD.
"Sunny", of course, is on "Night Train To Nashville." Audrey Bryant, whose "Let's Trade A Little" is the 14th track on Side 1, was also at the event.

Morgan Huke of WMFO radio, 91.5 FM in Medford, has been playing MIDNIGHT ADVENTURES, the new album from Bobby. http://midnightadventures.blogspot.com

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Tuesday, July 08, 2008

News...Bobby Hebb's Grammy certificate for "Sunny"'s appearance on the "Night Train To Nashville" compilation is here on the site. Check it out here.

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Bobby Hebb and Malcolm John Rebennack - the legendary Dr. John - spoke on the telephone on Monday, January 22, 2007, for the first time in years. We'd like to thank Colleen R. Wood for getting everyone in touch...and simultaneous with that event, the also legendary engineer/producer Stuart "Dinky" Dawson hooked Bobby Hebb Central up with Chris Montez, a man who covered "Sunny". E mails are in motion as of January 23, 2007...and speaking of covers of Sunny, there's a fantastic new one by the Joe Jewell Quartet

http://cdbaby.com/cd/joejewellquartet

Another review in Pennsylvania's All About Jazz magazine of Jewell's "Every Note Counts" cd appeared on January 4

All About Jazz, PA - Jan 4, 2007

Every Note Counts pays homage to several jazz guitarists: the opening "Something Special" is a Jim Hall composition, and the popular Bobby Hebb song "Sunny"....

http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=24271

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Bobby Hebb to appear on WFMU's Speakeasy Show with Dorian Devins!

WFMU, http://www.wfmu.org/ , airs out of Jersey City, NJ into the greater metropolitan NYC area. It is also webcast live and archived on the web. WFMU is the oldest exiting freeform station in the US - formerly a college station but now indepenently owned by a non-profit. WFMU is 100% listener-sponsored and has been voted "Best radio Station" by several publications ( http://www.wfmu.org/faq.html#known )

The Speakeasy, airs every Monday from 6-7 PM Eastern Time.

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Bobby Remembers James Brown..."James Brown was a wonderful individual, a fine businessman and a fine gentleman." Bobby first met James Brown "at Big Wilt Chamberlain's Small's Paradise" in Harlem in the 60s. Recently a live version of The Godfather Of Soul's wonderful rendition of "Sunny" made it to You Tube. Bobby's comments on the live rendition: "What a wonderful terrific job. Thank you very much." For anyone who wants to hear the studio version of "Sunny" by James Brown & Dee Felice Trio featuring Marva Whitney it leads off the second volume of "Roof Music & Trocadero Present A Collection Of Various Interpretations Of "Sunny" Part 2"...for anyone who wants immediate access to the YOU TUBE performances, we 've posted them on http://myspace.com/sunnybobbyhebb as well as on the left hand side of this website, third icon down, VIDEOS. There's also a fantastic rendition by The Four Tops with Levi Stubbs on You Tube. Bobby knew the A & R man for the Four Tops, the late Larry Maxwell. It's great to see the Four Tops performing this song live. We'd love to see a collection of Motown renditions of "Sunny" someday as there are two distinctly different versions by Stevie Wonder, a live version and a studio rendition on the "For Once In My Life" album. There's a tremendous version by Marvin Gaye and a superb one by Mary Wells on her "My Guy" compilation from Portugal. Now there's a good reason for the webmaster is using superlative adjectives, because Motown usually ran one backing track of a song and had several performers put their vocals on the same track. Not so with "Sunny", these are five distinctly different renditions (six if you include the live Four Tops take) that are all different productions with different flavors. Both the Marvin Gaye and Four Tops versions are on the Part 2 Sunny compilation from Roof/Trocadero along with James Brown. Renditions by Willie Mitchell, Wilson Pickett and Booker T & The MGs also have that Motown feel.

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New Projects: Bobby is working on a new album to be recorded in Nashville and New Orleans, more detail forthcoming on this site.

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We'd love to put together a compilation of some of Bobby's tunes as recorded by other people, "Would You Believe" by William Hunt, "A Natural Man" by Ron Sunshine, Alice Clark performing "Charms Of The Arms Of Love", "Don't You Care" and "Hard Hard Promises". Bobby Harrison, drummer on Procol Harum's single "A Whiter Shade Of Pale", recorded "Would You Believe" on CBS under the name "Powerpack". He may have recorded "Sunny" - check out this site: http://www.procolharum.com/99/bh_funkist-cd.htm Following that, Harrison formed the CBS-signed POWERPACK, who put out two singles in 1966 and 1967. Backed by famous jazzer RONNIE SCOTT, Bobby also released his first record in his own name for CBS in the mid-sixties, a version of the song Sonny.

Keep in mind Lou Rawls also performed "His Song Shall Be Sung" on his "A Natural Man" album. Both that tune and the title track were co-written by actor Sandy Baron and Bobby Hebb.

There are many versions of other songs Bobby wrote recorded by many artists. A "Tribute To The Songwriting Genius Of Bobby Hebb" is in order! Maybe the original version of "Sunny" by Japan's Mieko Hirota will see the light of day!

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Keith, who had the hit with 98.6, mentions Bobby in his interview http://www.keith986.com/corky_interview.htm