”Splish Splash wasn’t the beginning for Bobby Darin, nor was it just a flirtation with rock ’n’ roll. Raised in a Manhattan

tenement, Walden Robert Cassotto found a way to escape – through his music. Forming a band in high school, he first

played pop hits of the early ’50s and standards; then he moved to calypso and folk before becoming one of rock ’n’ roll’s

pioneers, cutting records reminiscent of Elvis Presley, Fats Domino and Little Richard, and writing what became one of

Buddy Holly’s biggest hits – Early In The Morning. This collection draws from sessions originally released on Decca,

Atco, Brunswick and Capitol; and recorded in New York, Nashville and Los Angeles. In addition to hits like Splish

Splash, Dream Lover and Early In The Morning, the album includes She’s Tanfastic, originally issued as a tanningcream

promotion, and Clementine, a swinging big-band precursor to Sinatra’s Old MacDonald. If Mack The Knife is the

beginning and end of Bobby Darin to you, you’re in for a big surprise.”