Thursday music corner: Singer, songwriter and actor Bobby Darin was born Walden Robert Cassotto in New York, in 1936. In his early twenties he attained fame co-writing the 1958 million-selling novelty single Splish Splash, and then cemented his pop stardom with Dream Lover and his covers of Weill and Brecht's Mack The Knife and French singer Charles Trenet's Beyond the Sea (originally La Mer). He released an astonishing 27 studio albums in his relatively short career, with his second and third, That's All (1959) and This Is Darin (1960) reaching the US Billboard top 10. Darin scored 22 US top 40 singles from 1958 to 1966. He also appeared in 13 feature films, including the 1962 remake of State Fair. From 1960 to 1967 he was married to popular actor, Sandra Dee. Darin died in 1973 aged 37, from a long-standing heart condition.
Long Line Rider appeared on Darin's 1968 album Bobby Darin Born Walden Robert Cassotto, which was his first album release to consist solely of self-written songs. The track concerns the discovery of unmarked graves at the brutal Cummins Prison Farm in Arkansas, where prisoners killed by the titular prison service riders were buried.
Bobby Darin - Long Line Rider (1968)
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