Famous musician Bobby Sherman was born on the 22nd of July, 1943, in California. He was 11 when he started to play the trumpet and piano.
Sherman attended Birmingham High School, where he played in a band, and later found his vocal talent. He then learned how to play 16 instruments.
After high school, Sherman attended Pierce College, where he studied child psychology. He met his first girlfriend when he was taken to a party for “The Greatest Story Ever Told.”
“I was always the guy who had the gumption to get up and sing in front of people,” Sherman said of that time.
As it was a Hollywood party, there were many famous names at the party. Sal Mineo, Natalie Wood – and Jane Fonda were present in there. As people saw him perform at the party, Mineo decided to work with him.
“People were saying things like, ‘Who’s handling you’ I had no idea what that meant,” Sherman shared.
“Well, I was a kid from Van Nuys, you know, and it was, `What do they mean, handling me?’ Then I realized they meant representation.”
After the party, he received an audition, and successfully landed on a role in “Shindig.” Bobby starred in the show for two years until it ended, and through the show, he had his breakthrough.
Later, Bobby appeared on shows The Monkees, Honey West, and The FBI. As he had his breakthrough, “Here Come The Bridges,” brought even more fame to Bobby Sherman.
“The show had just hit the air, and we didn’t even have any records out yet,” Sherman shared.
“Greg Morris of Mission: Impossible and Robert Brown and I from Here Come The Brides had been asked to do the telethon, and it was going along and doing very well, when the fire marshall came in and said, ‘We have a problem. You’d better come up to the second floor; You’ve got to greet some people.’”
“They opened up this window, and I looked out, and the parting lot of this television station was absolutely a sea of faces,” Bobby said.
“It was just unbelievable. And I got a clue then that something was happening.”
As Bobby sold millions of copies, out of his six single recordings, “A song begins with an idea – one line,” Bobby Sherman said. “I build that into a complete lyric. Then, I fit the music around it.”
He married his first wife, Patti Carnel, in 1971. They welcomed their sons, Christopher and Tyler. For his children, Sherman built the miniature model of the Main Street of Disneyland.
It took two and a half years for the project to finish, and $15,000. As his wife was not happy with the construction noise coming from the backyard, “At one point, she said, ‘If you don’t finish it, I’ll kill you,” Sherman jokingly recalled.
As he got famous, his schedule become more crowded. “It was so hectic for three years that I didn’t know what home was,” Sherman said.
“I was disoriented, I never knew where I was. I always had to be reminded. But, in all honesty, I must say I had the best of times because the concerts were great, the fans were great. It was the proverbial love-in, but it just zapped so much out of me.”
He then decided to leave his career, and focused on his family. Sherman was a man who would like to improve himself. He took first aid and CPR classes, and volunteered as an emergency medical technician.
“The very first call, I saved a little 5-year-old girl’s life. I thought, ‘yeah, that’s the most incredible feeling,’” Bobby said in 1994.
He later become the first aid teacher at Los Angeles Police Department. In 1992, Bobby started to work as an officer of LAPD, and the chief medical training officer.
“On one call in Northridge, we were working on a hemorrhaging woman who had passed out,” Bobby shared. “Her husband kept staring at me. Finally, he said, ‘Look, honey, it’s Bobby Sherman!’ The woman came to with a start. She said, ‘Oh great, I must look a mess!’ I told her not to worry; she looked fine.”
Despite leaving his career, in the late 90s, Bobby took the stage in the “Teen Idol Tour” alongside Peter Noone and Monkees members Davy Jones and Micky Dolenz.
“What I’ve done with my life, and what I’ve been able to accomplish, all comes down to the fact that I’ve been blessed by the fans. It’s stayed with me, so I can have the opportunity to do things that I really love doing,” Sherman said.
“I don’t think I’d change a thing — except to maybe be a little bit more aware of [the success], because I probably could’ve relished the fun of it a little more,” the retired star shared. “It was a lot of work. It was a lot of blood, sweat, and tears. But it was the best of times.”
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