Torrentz Search Engine. Torrentz will always love you. Forgotten Hits - THE MUSIC OF TOMMY BOYCE AND BOBBY HARTThe Music of Tommy Boyce and Bobby Hart. We ran our TOMMY BOYCE AND BOBBY HART Series for the very first time back in November of 2. The goal at the time was tell the COMPLETE BOYCE AND HART story … beyond the hits written for THE MONKEES … beyond the hits they scored working together as a singing and songwriting duo .. BOFFO Fire Island Art Camp 2017 BOFFO FIRE ISLAND ART CAMP is an annual summer artist residency program created to nurture the creative spirit of artists while. NOT the WHOLE story. It quickly became a VERY popular piece … SO much so, in fact, that by popular demand, we have rerun the piece more times than any other series we've ever done in FORGOTTEN HITS. As such, we've decided to permanently place it on our web page so new readers can continue to discover it .. The most popular chapter in this series was the one dealing with the history of the song VALLERI!!! That one piece alone was picked up by a number of websites dedicated to MONKEES and BOYCE AND HART fans around the world, fueling even MORE requests for me to rerun the entire series.)In 2. MR. BOBBY HART himself!!! ![]() For me, this was kinda like watching The Director's Cut DVD while listening the commentary track voiced by the guy who was actually there!!!)I mean, think about it .. BOBBY HART was RIGHT THERE while all this great stuff was happening … in fact, HE was one of the people HELPING to MAKE it happen!!! We are VERY grateful to BOBBY for taking the time to participate in our piece. I believe that this new one- on- one, play- by play version will only help to make this an even MORE interesting and unique piece. BOYCE AND HART still have an AWFUL lot of fans out there … their music is still played on the radio every single day and kids of EVERY generation since have memorized every word of these songs and sing along each time they hear them come on the radio. It's safe to say that the music created by the songwriting team of TOMMY BOYCE AND BOBBY HART TRULY transcends time. When BOBBY and I first talked last year, he was working on a book deal .. THEY might obtain a copy of BOBBY's new memoirs, “MY JOURNEY TO STARDOM AND BACK AND 1. FAMOUS PEOPLE I MET ALONG THE WAY.” He's also been working on a new musical called "UPRISING: THE MUSICAL", which I had hoped to be able to give you information about as well. Based on a conversation I had with BOBBY HART just this past week, BOTH of these projects are still looking for a home .. Las Vegas perhaps???)I also want to take just a quick moment to extend my VERY special thanks to FORGOTTEN HITS List Member (and close, personal friend .. BOBBY HART), AUSTIN ROBERTS, who put me in touch with BOBBY in the first place .. BOBBY HART himself, for taking the time to talk with me and set the record straight on all this stuff once and for all. But most of all, thank you, BOBBY, for ALL this great music you've given us over the years! We were also able to top the whole thing off with an EXCLUSIVE FORGOTTEN HITS Interview with BOBBY HART, which is now also posted on The FORGOTTEN HITS Web Page. (It is suggested that you read the complete series FIRST as quite a few of the questions reference points made in the series.)We hope that you, too, will enjoy this VERY special BOYCE AND HART Series. CHAPTER1. TOMMY BOYCE was born on September 2. Charlottesville, Virginia. We first learned of him here in Chicago back in 1. I'LL REMEMBER CAROL went all the way to #9 on the WLS Chart. Nationally, it stopped at #7. At the time, BOYCE was pursuing a solo recording career. By this time, however, he had already experienced some songwriting success. He placed his first chart hit record with 1. The Babylon 5 Encyclopedia • The most ambitious project in the 12-year history of Babylon 5 Books • One creator, eleven experts and a span of eight years to complete. Links to online books and articles relating to the American Revolution 1775-1783 generally and to the Southern Campaign specifically. ![]() We were also able to top the whole thing off with an EXCLUSIVE FORGOTTEN HITS Interview with BOBBY HART, which is now also posted on The FORGOTTEN HITS Web Page. FATS DOMINO back in 1. BE MY GUEST went all the way to #8 on the National Charts. BOYCE found that continued songwriting and chart success was not so easily coming .. The Top Ten again until he teamed up with singer CURTIS LEE to write PRETTY LITTLE ANGEL EYES a couple of years later.)BOBBY HART: A high school buddy introduced me to his college mate, Curtis Lee, and asked if I could help him break into the business. When I introduced him to my manager at a recording studio, we both met Tommy Boyce and we all became good friends. Tommy and I began writing together in 1. Tommy, my first wife, Becky and I were involved in a freeway collision driving home from a Long Beach show where Curtis was discovered by Stan Schulman, signed to Dunes Records and summoned to New York. Once there, it didn’t take Curt long to convince Stan that he needed Tommy to write with. I tell the full story in my book. In 1. 96. 1, while still recovering from the injuries he suffered in a head- on collision in Los Angeles, TOMMY BOYCE was given the opportunity to go to New York and try to write a song for an up- and- coming young singer named CURTIS LEE. BOYCE was met at the airport by LEE, as well as recording artist RAY PETERSON (who we recently featured in FORGOTTEN HITS with his original version of the ELVIS tune THE WONDER OF YOU.) Both artists were looking for a hit (and were about to be produced by the legendary PHIL SPECTOR!)After a few weeks without so much as a single inspiration, BOYCE's publisher gave him an ultimatum .. CURTIS LEE NOW or accept a plane ticket back home to Los Angeles. Now under just a LITTLE bit of pressure, TOMMY BOYCE and CURTIS LEE moved in together as roommates in the publisher's living room so that, in the event an inspiration struck, they would both be there to capitalize on it. In his book HOW TO WRITE A HIT SONG AND SELL IT, BOYCE says he lived and breathed songwriting, turning in song after song after song, only to be turned down each time with a comment like "It's good .. CURTIS." This went on for two more months!!! While CURTIS LEE and RAY PETERSON went out on tour, TOMMY stayed behind trying to come up with that elusive hit. As LEE was leaving, BOYCE told CURTIS to just "think of a title while you're down there in Florida .. I'll write you a hit song." (This would be a trait TOMMY would carry on for the rest of his songwriting career, regardless of which other partners he may have been working with .. When they returned, LEE told TOMMY of a girl he had met down in Florida who had the prettiest eyes he had ever seen. CURTIS even had a title for his idea: he called it "ANGEL EYES."One of the most popular songs on the radio at the time was EBONY EYES by THE EVERLY BROTHERS. TOMMY started to play the chord progression of that tune, hoping for some spark of inspiration. When that didn't work, he began to play the chords to that week's Number One Song, BLUE MOON by THE MARCELS. BOYCE says that the accelerated tempo of THE MARCELS' song got them to singing their first lyrics: "Angel Eyes, I really love you so. Angel Eyes, I'll never let you go." They felt that they were on to something. By evening, the lyrics were nearly complete. Feeling pretty good about what they had done, BOYCE decided to take a walk and, while passing a record store, heard the old CLEFTONES' hit LITTLE GIRL OF MINE coming out of the loudspeakers. As soon as he heard the beginning: "Little, little, little, little, lit .. Quickly, the opening lyrics became "PRETTY LITTLE ANGEL EYES, PRETTY LITTLE ANGEL EYES" (and, ultimately, so did the title of the song!)Amazingly, when they first performed the song for their publisher, he wasn't impressed. I thought I told you to write me a hit!" he said again. But BOYCE and LEE were convinced that they HAD written a hit and decided to play it for their publisher's girlfriend, who immediately loved the song. She convinced her boyfriend that they had a smash on their hands and he finally gave the green light for CURTIS to record the tune. And a smash it was .. PRETTY LITTLE ANGEL EYES shot up the charts to #6, becoming CURTIS LEE's only Top 4. Hit!!! BOBBY HART: Meanwhile, in Hollywood I was missing my friend and writing partner. While my two buddies were making it big in Tin Pan Alley, I was stuck working at my day gig at Record Labels, Inc. I printed the labels for their hits. CHAPTER 2. Early on, BOBBY HART was ALSO trying to make it as a solo recording artist. HART was born ROBERT LUKE HARSHMAN in Phoenix, Arizona on February 1. Back in the late '5. ELVIS PRESLEY and GENE VINCENT), BOBBY moved to Los Angeles in pursuit of a career as a Disc Jockey. To help pay for his classes, he got a job in a print shop, printing record labels.
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