Disc #3 Demos and the Beatles Tour

     Songwriters who are also hit recording artists often have a cache of material the general public doesn't often hear, "publisher demos" or demonstration tapes for other singers and Artist and Repertoire people at record labels.   Bobby Hebb's dual catalog consists of his studio and live material released to the public, as well as his publishing demos.   This disc is the first major release of those tapes to the public, and what a treasure chest of material it is.
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    "Love You" certainly doesn't sound like a demo. Bobby's heartfelt vocal tears through the speakers with the guitar, drums and bass providing a backdrop to his tour-de-force performance.  It starts this magical ride through Bobby's hidden and unreleased gems followed by this writer's personal favorite, "Don't You Care."

Originally released on acid-jazz soul singer Alice Clark's eponymous 1972 Mainstream records release (along with Clark's versions of "Charms of the Arms of Love." and "Hard Hard Promises") Bobby's rendition is so perfect 1960s sunshine pop that any movie set in that time would do well to include the Hebb version on its soundtrack.  Demos of "Charms of the Arms of Love" and "Dreamy" are just superb Bobby Hebb and different than the renditions on Love Games (produced by James Fleming Rasmussen) and Hebb's final Philips 45 (produced by Gamble & Huff,) respectively.    "Who Can I Turn To?" is a mere 41 seconds that is gut-wrenching and makes finding the completed song a necessity. It is just a taste of the magic for those of us who love Bobby's voice and compositions. 
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If you're wondering why there are two versions of "Got You On My Mind" wonder no more. Bobby actually recorded three. The first is from the Hoss Allen Show live, it is a rave up of the more subdued Jerry Ross production that showed up on the Sunny album (not included here,) while the other song is a Bobby Hebb original from his 1979 Revere Massachusetts Fleetwood sessions which resulted in the 45 RPM "Judy"  b/w Evil Woman.

For fans of the Rich Records Story, which has 6 Bobby Hebb tracks leading off the anthology, we have included 3 out-takes from those sessions that give another perspective on "Feel So Good" (without the backing vocalists,) "Cherry," (without the strings) and "Atlanta GA" (take 3.)  So with this boxed set and with the Rich Records Story you will have the currently available mixes of Bobby's work from the period with John Rich.
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"I'll Be Anything For You" was recorded by Powerpack on CBS and Tamika Jones (as the title track to her Atlantic album) but Bobby's version is just outstanding and was discovered on an acetate from Europe that Dr. Beatle, Erik Taros, remastered for us.    We don't have Bobby's version of his own "Would You Believe?" that Grady Tate (1968, Sky Records/Buddah) and William Hunt recorded (Streamside #100 (1967) )  but rest assured we are looking for it.  In the 

meantime you can listen to Bobby's work with Sylvia 

Robinson (Bobby and Sylvia - the duo that replaced Love is 

Strange duo Mickey and Sylvia)  and "I Love Mary" on 

Scepter records here on this release.

And then, as a special treat, we close out this disc with 5 songs from Bobby's show in Toronto with The Beatles.  Bobby is backed by Barry and the Remains, his friends from Boston who recorded for Epic four years before Bobby released "Love Games" on epic.   There's a rave-up of "Got My Mojo Workin" and fragments of Van McCoy's "For You," Darlene Love's "Good Good Lovin'" and Bobby's own "Crazy Baby" along with a tremendous, full version of "Sunny" which concludes the disc.  The above photo was taken August 19, 1966 in Memphis, an idea Bobby told us that Beatles' manager Brian Epstein had for a photo of the Fab 4 asking Bobby for an autograph.


1)Love You 2:32 
2)Don't You Care 2:18 
3)Charms of the Arms of Love 3:25 
4)Dreamy 2:20 
5)Feel So Good 2:02 (out-take) 
6)Cherry 2:45 (out-take) 
7)Atlanta GA 2:35 (Take 3) 
8)I Wanna Know 2:57 Bobby and Sylvia/Battle Records 
9)You Broke My Heart 2:41 Bobby Hebb / Sylvia Robinson 
10)I Love Mary 2:35 Scepter Records from vinyl 
11)Got You On My Mind 4:03 Live on Hoss Allen Show 
12)I've Got You On My Mind 4:29 (Bobby Hebb, Fleetwood 1979) 
13)Mojo Working 2013 2:09 produced by Joe Viglione 
14)Mojo Working 2013 2:14 produced by Joe Viglione 
15)Who Can I Turn To (Bobby Hebb) 0:41 Fleetwood Sessions 
16) Of This Love With You (?) 3:40 Bobby Hebb/Fleetwood Sessions 
17)Tree Top High 2:34 Bobby Hebb demo 
18)The London Scene 1:25 Bobby Hebb demo 
19)My Love Is Today 2:11 Bobby Hebb demo 
20)The Right Foot Of Love 2:51 demo 
21)The Sunny Harper 1:49 demo 
22)I'll Be Anything For You 3:04 (from acetate) Bobby Hebb 
23)Just to Go On Loving You 3:14 demo 
24)WCAP Radio on the Beatles/hebb Tour 0:38 
Bobby tell us about playing with the Beatles 
25)WCAP Radio on Hebb / Beatles 0:56 Bobby responds 
26)WCAP 1:01 Gary Sohmers, how was the sound onstage? 
27)WCAP 1:08 BMI Top 25 
28)WCAP radio interview 1:18 Bobby and the Remains 
29)Crazy Baby 1st song onstage 1:25 
30)Narrator leads into M.C. onstage 0:45 
31)For You (Van McCoy) 0:44 Live Beatles 8-17-66 w/The Remains 
32)Good, Good Lovin' (Mann/Weil) Time 1:15 8-17-66 with/The Remains 
33)Got My Mojo Working - 2:41 Live 8-17-66 with Barry and the Remains 
34) Sunny 5:14 Live 8-17-66 with Barry and the Remains 
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