This list contains recordings made by (or of) Bobby that, as yet, have not been released. Songs tried on multiple dates in the studio before a satisfactory take was achieved are generally not included, but a song such as Some of These Days, recorded in a different arrangement for a different project to the well-known version on That’s All, is included. Dates given are in DD/MM/YY format. Survival status is unknown in all cases except where indicated.
??/??/55-56 Unknown titles. Songwriter demos from this very early stage in Bobby’s career are known to exist.
??/03/56 Rock Pile. Studio recording.
30/10/58 Some of These Days. Studio recording
5/12/58 Didn’t It Feel Good. Studio recording (outtakes have been issued)
19-21/5/59 The Breeze and I; Since My Love Was Gone; The Lamp is Low. Studio recordings for This is Darin
6/9/59 I Feel a Song Coming On; On the Sunny Side of the Street; Exactly Like You; Let’s Get Lost; I Can’t Give You Anything But Love; I Couldn’t Sleep a Wink Last Night; Can’t Get Out of This Mood. Live recording, Hollywood Bowl. These are from a concert paying tribute to the songwriter Jimmy McHugh. Buddy Bregman recorded the concert and a release was announced the following year, but never materialised. It has been confirmed that these recordings are known to exist
1-2/2/60 A Game of Poker; I Got a Woman. Studio recording for Winners
15-16/6/60 My Funny Valentine; Splish Splash; The Birth of the Blues. Live recording for Darin at the Copa
21/6/60 Won’t You Come Home Bill Bailey; That’s the Way Love Is; Beyond the Sea; When Your Lover Has Gone; That’s All; I Can’t Give You Anything But Love; Mack the Knife; She Needs Me. Let’s Go to Town radio programme. This was a programme used as part of a recruitment drive for the National Guard. Bobby sang his songs with Ray Bloch and his orchestra. All eight songs exist and are held at the Paley Center for Media.
17/8/60 Back in Your Own Backyard . Studio recording for Two of a Kind
25/3/61 Bobby’s Blues . Studio recording, instrumental
8/6/61 Special Someone; Teenage Theme; Movin’ On. Studio recordings, probably instrumentals for Come September
??/11/63 Unknown titles. Live recording, Las Vegas. Given that we have alternates of some songs from the The Curtain Falls recordings, it stands to reason that there are likely alternate versions of the other numbers in the vaults. Some have been released on bootleg discs
13/1/64 Maybe Today . Studio recording
24/3/65 King of the Road. Studio recording
24/3/65 The Joker. Studio recording
24/3/65 My Kind of Town. Studio recording
14/8/65 Sweet Memories of You. Studio recording
14/8/65 Ain’t That a Bunch of Nonsense. Studio recording
13/12/65 Ace in the Hole; The Best is Yet To Come; The Sheik of Araby; This Could Be the Start of Something Big; I Got Plenty of Nothin; Baby Won’t You Please Come Home. Studio recordings originally intended to be issued with the standards on the second side of The Shadow of Your Smile.
4/2/66 Weeping Willow. Studio recording. A release for this song was announced in January 2015 but never materialised.
23/3/66 Strangers in the Night. Studio recording
31/3/66 As Long as I’m Singin’; Some of These Days; After You’ve Gone; Mame; I’ve Got the World On a String; Yesterday; Mack the Knife; One for My Baby; One of Those Songs; Gotta Travel On; Brother Can You Spare a Dime; King of the Road; Trouble in Mind; I’ve Got Plenty of Nothin’. Live recording, Copa. These were recorded from/for a radio broadcast. This entire show exists in the Paley Center for Media. Thanks to Matt Forbes for verifying information for this entry.
21/4/66 True Love’s a Blessing. Studio recording
9/5/66 L. A. Breakdown. Studio recording
9/5/66 I Can Live on Love. Studio recording
9/5/66 Manhattan in My Heart. Studio recording. A release for this song was announced in January 2015 but never materialised. It is available on Vimeo.
27/5/66 Merry-Go-Round in the Rain. Studio recording
27/5/66 Seventeen. Studio recording. Could this song by I saw Her Standing There, which starts with the line She was just seventeen? The song is mistitled in this way on an Elvis Presley rehearsal list from 1969, hence the query.
28-30/6/66 Lulu’s Back in Town; For You; What Now My Love; Mountain Greenery; It’s Magic; Danke Schoen; My Own True Love; On a Clear Day; A Quarter to Nine. Studio recordings. A complete unreleased album thought to be lost to a fire in 1978.
20/10/66 Funny What Love Can Do; Good Day Sunshine; Young Girl; Daydreamer. Studio recordings for If I Were a Carpenter that were not included on the album.
2/2/67 Saginaw, Michigan. Studio recording for Inside Out
26/6/67 Biggest Night Of Her Life. Studio recording
4/11/67 All Strung Out. Studio recording.
18/11/67 Tupelo Mississippi Flash. Studio recording.
19/11/67 Natural Soul Lovin’ Big City Countrified Man. Studio recording. May survive
19/11/67 While I’m Gone. Studio recording. May survive.
??/11/67 Meditation/I Will Wait For You; Prison Of Your Love. Studio recordings. May survive.
??/05/69 Unknown titles, probably including Come a Rum Rum, Leaving Trunk, Me and Mr Hohner, and Lady Madonna. Live recordings, The Troubador. Four songs were released on Songs from Big Sur. More recordings from this engagement must exist, as surely not just four titles were taped. The songs mentioned are songs known to have been in Bobby’s act during this season.
16/7/69 Unknown titles, probably including Simple Song of Freedom, Long Line Rider, Come a Rum Rum, Me and Mr Hohner, Lady Madonna, Distractions. Live recordings, Las Vegas. I’ll Be Your Baby Tonight was released on the 1995 Rhino boxed set. More recordings from this engagement must exist, as surely not just four titles were taped.
??/02/71 Unknown titles. Live recordings. Las Vegas. Because Motown have released multiple versions of a few of the songs from Live at the Desert Inn, it stands to reason that more than one show much have been recorded, and there must therefore be more recordings in the vaults, even if they are different versions of the songs we already have.
1972-1973. Recordings from Bobby’s two TV series. Many titles from these series are currently unreleased, but survive.
For more information on these and all Bobby Darin titles, please see Bobby Darin: Directions. A Listener’s Guide. 2nd edition.
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I found out that “Seventeen” is actually a song! I was listening to Mel Torme and I saw the title “Seventeen” on an album on Spotify. I’m almost sure that’s the same song Bobby sang on 27/5/1966.
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Great find! Thanks for the info – I had no idea! That said, those words are a bit creepy!
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