Darling Brookie heard the song "Itchy Twitchy Feeling" on PBS Radio Melbourne recently and was inspired to go out and purchase a Bobby Hendricks album - and boy am I glad she did!! It's just fantastic and I have been jiving in my loungeroom to "Itchy Twitchy Feeling" ever since .... hope you enjoy it too ....
From Wikipedia:
Bobby Hendricks (b. February 22, 1938, Columbus, Ohio) is an American R&B singer who charted two hits in the late 1950s. However, before embarking on a solo career, Bobby Hendricks was a member of The Swallows and recorded with The Flyers before becoming a successful solo act. (He also sang lead on The Drifters' Drip Drop).
His single Itchy Twitchy Feeling, which was covered by his former band soon after it began attracting radio airplay, hit the U.S. charts, reaching #5 on the Black Singles chart and #25 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1958. Hendricks's only other charting single, Psycho, was a novelty song depicting a psychiatrist talking with a patient.Psycho peaked at #73 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1960. New York City disc jockey Dr. Jive (Tommy Smalls) was the voice of the psychiatrist on Psycho.
From 1961, off and on, through 2008, Bobby Hendricks worked as lead singer with Bill Pinkney's Original Drifters and appeared with them on PBS in the ever popular Doo Wop 51 television broadcast and Doo Wop Love Songs when he sang Stand By Me with Bill Pinkney, Charlie Thomas and Ben E. King.
45 RPM singles
- My Picture/ You Drive Buddy - Patience Records. 1962 (recorded as The Sprites)
- I Watched You Slowly Slip Away / Let's Get It On - Stardust Records (year unknown)
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