BOBBY CALDWELL
Updated 05-May-2020.
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Cool Uncle: Inside 2015’s Smartest Retro-Soul Revival: Bobby Caldwell and Jack Splash’s intergenerational team-up yields silky-smooth bliss
Bobby Caldwell: ‘Perfect Island Nights’: Ed Gordon talks with singer-songwriter Bobby Caldwell, whose music has become a staple in the smooth jazz world. Caldwell recently released a new CD, Perfect Island Nights.
Bobby Caldwell Sings at the Lobero: One of the brightest aspects of 21st-century pop culture is the ongoing dissolution of genre boundaries. Crossovers are so common, and the demand for strong material is so insistent, that the old q…
My botty best at summarizing from Wikipedia: Robert Hunter Caldwell is an american singer and songwriter . he recorded the hit single “What You Won’t Do for Love” in 1978 . his mother sold real estate and one of her clients was regga Caldwell grew up listening to the music of Frank Sinatra and Ella Fitzgerald . at 12, he started playing piano and guitar . he was drawn to rock and roll, jazz and rhythm and blues . Caldwell played multiple instruments and sang . he signed with TK Records in Miami . executives told him they enjoyed the album, but thought it was lacking a hit . “What You Won’t Do for Love” reached the top ten on the Billboard magazine pop . most of the audience was black and many were surprised that Caldwell was white . 10) charts. The song has been covered, remade and sampled many times . it was covered by go west, Phyllis Hyman, and Boyz II Men . the 1980 track “Open Your Eyes” was sampled by J Dilla on Common’s “The Light” from his 2000 album “Like Water For Chocolate”Caldwell’s debut album was followed by Cat in the Caldwell’s versions of big band standards have appeared in several films . he turned from R&B to recording big band arrangements of songs from the great american songbook . in 2015, he collaborated with record producer in 1992, he received Japan’s equivalent of a Grammy Award for Best International Artist . he portrayed Frank Sinatra from October 1999 to January 2000 in the Las Vegas musical The Rat Pack is Back .