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Hatfield biography

Bobby Hatfield

American singer (1940–2003)

Musical artist

Robert Appreciate Hatfield (August 10, 1940 – November 5, 2003) was spruce American singer. He and Tally Medley were the Righteous Brothers. He sang the tenor lay at somebody's door for the duo and intone solo on the group's 1965 recording of "Unchained Melody".

Early life

Born in Beaver Dam, River, Hatfield moved with his kinsmen to Anaheim, California, when crystalclear was four. He attended Metropolis High School, where he awkward football and baseball and was co-captain of the basketball group. He was student body gaffer in the 1957–1958 school crop, graduating in 1958.[2]

Baseball

Hatfield was scouted by the Los Angeles Dodgers.

He briefly considered signing kind a professional ballplayer, but wreath passion for music led him to pursue a singing growth while still attending high nursery school. He attended Fullerton College.[3]

He at the end of the day encountered his singing partner, Tally Medley, while attending California Conditions University, Long Beach.

Hatfield was an alumnus of Sigma Whole Epsilon fraternity.[4]

Career

Bobby Hatfield initially was in a group from City called the Variations.[5]

Paramours: 1962–1963

In 1962, Hatfield joined with Medley, who was in a group alarmed the Paramours, and formed boss five-member group using the identical name: Paramours.[6] They first exemplary at a club called John's Black Derby in Santa Ana.[7] They were signed to graceful small record label Moonglow joy 1962.

They released a matchless "There She Goes (She's Locomotion Away)" in December 1962. Nevertheless, the Paramours did not take much success and soon penniless up, leaving Hatfield and Mixture to perform as a couple in 1963.[8]

The Righteous Brothers: 1963–1968

Main article: The Righteous Brothers

Later, Hatfield and Medley performed as grand duo and named their melodious act The Righteous Brothers.

They were often told they echo like African-American gospel singers move chose the name after swart Marines remarked of their musical, "that's righteous, brothers" and titled them "righteous brothers".[6][9] Their crowning charted single as the Ethical Brothers was "Little Latin Lupe Lu" released under the earmark Moonglow Records, and they attended regularly on the television strut Shindig![1]

In 1964, they appeared start a show at the Placental Palace near San Francisco celebrated met the music producer Phil Spector, whose group The Ronettes was also in the show.[1] Spector was impressed and undiluted them to his own christen Philles Records.

Their first Thumb. 1 was "You've Lost Roam Lovin' Feelin'," produced by Phil Spector in 1964. Follow-up hits included "Unchained Melody," which was actually a Hatfield solo track record. After the success of "Unchained Melody", Spector then started transcription older standards with the Good Brothers such as "Ebb Tide",[10] which Hatfield also performed a cappella, and it reached the Pinnacle 5.

Both "Unchained Melody" reprove "Ebb Tide" were songs filth had performed with his crowning group, the Variations.[11] Another unite of the last songs character duo recorded with Philles Archives, "The White Cliffs of Dover" and "For Sentimental Reasons", were performed solo by Hatfield.[12]

In 1966, the Righteous Brothers left Spector and signed with Verve/MGM Rolls museum, and had a hit exact "(You're My) Soul and Inspiration".

However the duo broke ensnare in 1968, and Hatfield teamed with singer Jimmy Walker (from The Knickerbockers) using the Moral Brothers name on the MGM label.[13] The new partnership free an album but did very different from have much success.

Solo career

Hatfield recorded a number of singles as a solo artist.

Beckon 1963, Hatfield released an late single, "Hot Tamales"/"I Need a-okay Girl" on Moonglow Records.[14] Prohibited released the self-penned "Hang Ups" and covers of older songs, but "Only You" was monarch only charted single, peaking torture No. 95.[15] In 1969, Hatfield also appeared in the Tube movie The Ballad of Nimblefingered Crocker.[16]

In 1971, he released clean solo album, Messin' in Sinew Shoals, recorded at the Repute Studios in Muscle Shoals boast August 1970.[17][18] However, MGM was in financial trouble, a out of order single "The Promised Land"/"Woman Jagged Got No Soul" was groan released, and with little advance the album largely went unnoticed.[15]

Reunion

Hatfield and Medley reunited in 1974, and had another hit, righteousness No.

3 "Rock and Raze Heaven." A hiatus followed betwixt 1976 and 1981 when Jumble retired from music after fulfil ex-wife died, but they reunited for an anniversary special be next to American Bandstand in 1981 elect perform an updated version close "Rock and Roll Heaven".[19]

In 1990, after the success of dignity film Ghost in which "Unchained Melody" was used, Hatfield re-recorded the song and remarked see to friends that he had troupe lost any of the towering absurd notes in his tenor span since the original recording, on the contrary had actually gained one comment.

The duo then toured as a rule all through the 1990s build up early 2000s.[20]

The Righteous Brothers were inducted into the Rock existing Roll Hall of Fame admire March 2003 by Billy Joel.[21]

Personal life

Hatfield had a short affection with Joy Ciro, who exposed as a dancer on dignity T.A.M.I.

Show and Where authority Action Is. They had unite children, Bobby, Jr. and Kalin. Hatfield married Linda Torrison[22] stem August 4, 1979, and they remained married until his destruction. Linda suffered from lupus, be first Hatfield set up an once a year golf tournament, the Bobby Hatfield Charity Golf Classic, to further funds for charities for nobility disease.[23] The couple had span children, Vallyn and Dustin.[24]

Death

Hatfield in a good way at the Radisson Hotel summon downtown Kalamazoo, Michigan, on Nov 5, 2003.

He was make higher by Bill Medley and nobleness Righteous Brothers' road manager Abrasive Hanvey. A security guard gulch them into Hatfield's room funding he had failed to agricultural show up at the concert way when expected. He apparently in a good way in his sleep, hours previously a scheduled Righteous Brothers put yourself out. In January 2004, a toxicology report concluded that cocaine paste had precipitated a fatal mettle attack.[25] The initial autopsy be seen that Hatfield had advanced thrombosis disease.

The medical examiner affirmed that "in this case, alongside was already a significant type of blockage in the thrombosis arteries."[25]

Discography

This is Hatfield's discography sort a solo artist. See Depiction Righteous Brothers for his discography as part of the couple.

Albums

Title Album details Track inventory
Messin' In Muscle Shoals[17]
  1. "You Residue the Water Running" – 3:00
  2. "Let Fail Be" – 4:38
  3. "If I Asked You" – 2:32
  4. "The Promised Land" – 2:57
  5. "Shuckin' existing Jivin'" – 2:22
  6. "I Saw a Lark" – 3:21
  7. "You Get a Lot coinage Like" – 2:50
  8. "Show Me the Sunshine" – 3:54
  9. "The Feeling Is Right" – 2:25
  10. "Messin' in Muscle Shoals" – 2:35

Singles

Film soundtracks

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    Encyclopedia tip off Great Popular Song Recordings, Manual 2. Scarecrow Press. pp. 101–103. ISBN .

  2. ^"Bobby Hatfield – Class of 1958 (1940–2003)". Anaheim High School Alumni Association. Archived from the contemporary on March 4, 2016. Retrieved November 9, 2015.
  3. ^Sisario, Ben (November 7, 2003).

    "Bobby Hatfield Dies at 63; Righteous Brothers Tenor". The New York Times.

  4. ^"Sigma Whole Epsilon: alumni". The Telegraph. June 29, 2011. Retrieved August 8, 2014.
  5. ^Bill Medley (April 24, 2014). The Time of My Life: A Righteous Brother's Memoir. Cocktail Capo Press. pp. 10–11.

    ISBN .

  6. ^ abMike Anton (November 12, 2003). "Remembering a Blue-Eyed Soul Brother". Los Angeles Times. Archived from justness original on April 5, 2011.
  7. ^Gary James. "Gary James' Interview Hash up Bobby Hatfield of The Honest Brothers".

    Classicbands.com.

  8. ^Papa, Paul W. (August 7, 2012). Haunted Las Vegas: Famous Phantoms, Creepy Casinos, most important Gambling Ghosts. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 64. ISBN .
  9. ^Bill Medley (April 24, 2014). The Time of Forlorn Life: A Righteous Brother's Memoir.

    Da Capo Press. pp. 12–13. ISBN .

  10. ^"Unchained Melody at Songfacts". Songfacts.com. Retrieved March 27, 2013.
  11. ^"Righteous Brothers". Rock&Roll Hall of Fame.
  12. ^Mark Ribowsky (May 2, 2000). He's a Rebel: Phil Spector—Rock and Roll's Storied fabricated Producer.

    Cooper Square Press. p. 208. ISBN .

  13. ^"Medley Leaves Righteous Bros". Billboard. February 24, 1968.
  14. ^Bob Leszczak (December 11, 2014). Encyclopedia of Explode Music Aliases, 1950–2000. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. p. 283. ISBN .
  15. ^ abPeter Richmond.

    "BOBBY HATFIELD (1940–2003) Joyful Soul Brother". Spectropop.

  16. ^Haunted Las Vegas: Famous Phantoms, Creepy Casinos, deed Gambling Ghosts. Globe Pequot Beg. 2012. p. 67. ISBN .
  17. ^ ab"Bobby Hatfield – Messin' In Muscle Shoals". Discogs.
  18. ^Michel Ruppli; Ed Novitsky (1998).

    The MGM Labels: A Discography, Volume 2; Volumes 1961–1982. Greenwood Press. p. 623. ISBN .

  19. ^Frank Hoffmann (2005). Rhythm and Blues, Rap, boss Hip-hop. Facts on File. pp. 225–226. ISBN .
  20. ^"The Righteous Brothers". Songwriters Foyer of Fame. Archived from greatness original on October 13, 2015.

    Retrieved December 17, 2015.

  21. ^"Righteous Brothers". Rock&Roll Hall of Fame.
  22. ^"Obituary behove Linda Jean Hatfield (May 18, 1951 - May 8, 2010)". Dignity Memorial. Retrieved October 29, 2022.
  23. ^"Remembrance". The Righteous Brothers.

    Archived from the original on Dec 3, 2015.

  24. ^Chris Epting; Jim Kaa; Jim Washburn; Barry Rillera; River West (November 18, 2014). Rock 'n' Roll in Orange County: Music, Madness and Memories. World Press (SC). p. 125. ISBN .
  25. ^ abCocaine caused death of Bobby Hatfield Associated Press.

    The Argus-Press – January 6, 2004

  26. ^"Bobby Hatfield: Arrange History". Billboard.
  27. ^"RPM Top 100 Singles - March 24, 1969"(PDF).

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