Subject: Subject: Re: [Harp-L] Question about harps played by Bobby Darin

[EGS1217@xxxxxxx]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dq6cSepmXXE
 
I hope this is the right clip (my computer isn't functioning all that  
well)...another vid of Bobby Darin singing (and playing some harp) on 'Got my  
Mojo Working'. There's another fun treat in this clip too. Honestly, I'd 
never  seen this side of him at all despite liking the guy a LOT...so this is 
quite a  revelation for me and I sure appreciate your bringing the other clips 
to the  List, Eliza :)
 
I've now watched him play guitar while singing 'Bridge Over Troubled  
Water', and piano and harp here:
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=isMqpNdBzsM 
 
I'd NO idea how much of a multi-instrumentalist he was. There's a video  
interview on YouTube with his son (Dodd Darin) by Sandra Dee and his former  
manager who discuss the fact that during all of these shows he had Oxygen 
tanks  waiting offstage because his heart was failing during the last couple 
years  of his life--and he knew he was on borrowed time--originally not 
expected to  live past the age of 16. 
 
He put on a great show and no one in the audience knew just how damaged his 
 heart was (from rheumatic fever as a small boy). The ultimate definition 
of  'trouper'. 
 
Elizabeth