Bobby Sherman was one of the famous musicians of the 1960s and 1970s. He was the crush of most females due to his energetic personality and as well as he was too handsome also.
Sherman became a well-reputed actor and he staged in front of countless people. He also released multiple albums and sold millions of records.
Nevertheless, he decided to retire from the limelight at the peak of his fame.
Now Sherman is 80 years old and he feels that his skills are decayed in any way. But the cause behind leaving the limelight was not ordinary, it had to do with saving lives.
The music star, Bobby Sherman was born on July 22, 1943, in Santa Monica, California, and grew up in Van Nuys, near to Los Angeles.
It was to be said that at the age of 11, he learned how to play the trumpet, and after that piano, trombone, piano, and of course, the guitar. He went to Birmingham High School. There, he connected with a band and became very inquisitive in singing. Over the years, he apparently learned how to play a surprisingly 16 instruments.
He graduated from high school in 1961, and Sherman began studying at Pierce College in Woodland Hill, near Los Angeles. Here a relationship totally changes his life for a good being.
He was studying child psychology at Pierce College, where he met his first girlfriend. One night she took him to a cast party for The Greatest Story Ever Told.
Sherman started to play music at that time. He was not a new person to the audience. He sang with different bands in the San Fernando Valley, and many people admitted that he had a good voice.
So when he arrived at the party, he had the best opportunity to expose his entire talent.
“I was always the guy who had the gumption to get up and sing in front of people,” he later said of it
Actually, the group of his friends was the band on the stage and they likely made things easier for him when he sang the song he got up in front of everyone, Ray Charles’ What I’d Say.
That was the party of Hollywood. Many stars from the spotlight, were present there. Among them were Sal Mineo, Natalie Wood – and Jane Fonda.
Mineo recognized his hidden talent, and after the performance, he decided to take him under his supervision.
“People were saying things like, ‘Who’s handling you’ I had no idea what that meant,” Sherman said.
“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.”
He soon learned much about Hollywood. Only three days later an agent obliged him for the party guests and sent Bobby Sherman to an audition. It was for a new TV serial, and Bobby caught a featured spot on the series Shindig.
His role was not too long and it lasted only two years, but at that point, people all over the country fallen in love with him.
After canceling the ”Shindig” Sherman started to come as a guest star in many shows like, The Monkees, Honey West, and The FBI.
Although he became a superstar in Hollywood, he stepped forward in 1968.
Sherman performed as a stammer Jason Bolt in Here Come The Bridges, and stuck with the show for two full years. His personality was lost in the character of Stammer and the show was eventually canceled.
The character of Jason Bolt gave him unusual popularity among the fans; Sherman felt when he appeared during a telethon in Buffalo. Immediately he came to an up-and-coming name. Soon he became a superstar.
“The show had just hit the air, and we didn’t even have any records out yet,” Sherman told Tulsa World.
“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 parking lot of this television station was absolutely a sea of faces,” he added. “It was just unbelievable. And I got a clue then that something was happening.”
The following year Body didn’t know what would happen for him. However, he took a twist and turned his intentions towards writing songs and trying out his eight-track recording equipment.
After this, he became a professional singer but he didn’t recognize his voice yet.
From 1969 to 1971, Sherman’s young fan base bought millions of recordings, and he released singles such as Little Woman, Easy Come, Easy Go, and Julie, Do Ya Love Me.
A million copies of six different single recordings and one million copies of four different recorded albums had sold.
He performed in a TV series named Getting Together – a spinoff of The Partridge Family about two songwriters – in 1970 and 1971 and performed many other guest roles afterward.
Conflicting with Sherman’s fame, he married Patti Carnel in 1971. The couple welcomed two sons Christopher and Tyler.
As all parents want to raise their kids with all possible facilities, Sherman also wanted his kids to have a perfect place to grow so he decided to build a miniature model of the Main Street of Disneyland … in his backyard.
Approximately, it cost him $15,000 to build, and the project was completed in two and a half years.
But everyone was not happy with this even his wife was agitated by the constant noise of hammers.
“At one point, she said, ‘If you don’t finish it, I’ll kill you,” Sherman joked in an interview with People.
At the peak of his career, Sherman was on a hit television series while at the same time, releasing smash singles, and was cherished by millions of fans. Sixteen and Tiger Beat became two of his most popular albums.
But he had a very busy schedule and Sherman explained that he would usually film five days a week, and even had evening shows on the weekend. And all this made him exhausted.
“It was so hectic for three years that I didn’t know what home was,” he told the Washington Post.
“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.”
When his career was at its peak, he decided to leave the limelight and decided to save lives.
Actually, Sherman was a very conscious father regarding his children’s upbringing. Meanwhile, his wife was terrified of blood. It a very common with children that they hurt themselves mostly while playing and Christopher and Tyler often fell and injured themselves.
These falls resulted in bloody elbows and knees. Sherman wanted his best control of this situation and he decided to take classes. First, he experienced an initial first-aid-CPR class and later came forward 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 recalled in a 1994 interview.
He got more training and was appointed as a first aid teacher to police officers at the Los Angeles Police Department.