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...Darin (born Walden Robert Cassotto in 1936) had cut a few sides for Atco, the Atlantic subsidiary, with little impact. Herb Abramson, head of Atco, wanted to drop him, but Ertegun overruled the decision. Ahmet and ace engineer Tom Dowd supervised the kid?s next session, using their new Ampex eight-track recording system; out of this came two 1958 hits, "Splish Splash" and "Queen of the Hop." The first song, which Darin had written in 12 minutes, begins with water-bubble sounds, cueing its novelty nature; but it had drive and its narrator?s tough-guy befuddlement at finding...
...years ago, a couple of boys from The Bronx named Walden Cassotto and Donald Kirshner got into the music game writing radio-commercial jingles. They never made a living at it, but Cassotto contrived to change his name and his luck by going into singing: he is now that ever-lovin' smash, Bobby Darin. Kirshner still has the same moniker, but in what passes for the pop-music business these days, he is far more formidable than Darin. At 32, he is president of the music division of Columbia Pictures-Screen Gems TV, the hottest publisher...
...WALDEN CASSOTTO'S NO WALLFLOWER," SAYS THAT "LIVING DOLL," ALEXANDRA ZUCK (Bobby Darin and Sandra...
...Tone Rolls. Someone else might well have been Bobby Darin. The incumbent, born Walden Robert Cassotto in The Bronx in 1936, contracted a near-fatal case of rheumatic fever at the age of eight. His father, described by Darin as a small-scale gangster, died before Bobby was born. Supported by his mother's relief money, he grew up in one of Manhattan's toughest and poorest neighborhoods, steadily refused membership in district gangs, studied hard and learned to play the drums, won admission to the excellent Bronx High School of Science. During vacations, he picked up show...