Where are The Bobs?

Subject: RE: Where are The Bobs?
From: GUEST,Jimmy
Date: 23 Apr 00 - 05:06 PM

They are still going - see www.bobs.com Sorry, nfi how to make a blue clicky

Subject: RE: Where are The Bobs?
From: Mark Cohen
Date: 23 Apr 00 - 03:49 PM

Hi Ray -- how's the (superb) generic accompanist doing? Thanks for the info. I hope the third man will accept my apology for mistaking his gender. Do you know if they made any recordings besides "My I'm Large"? They had a wonderful song about a woman married to a weatherman, who always knew what was going to happen, weatherwise or otherwise. She got so frustrated she left him, and the song ends with him saying, "Don't worry honey, you'll be back." Brilliant, and impeccably done.
Maybe next year for Harmony. I sure do miss all you guys.

Aloha,
Mark

Subject: RE: Where are The Bobs?
From: DADGBE
Date: 22 Apr 00 - 11:26 PM

Hi Mark, Ray Frank here. When are you coming back to camp Harmony?

re: the Bob's. They were a San Francisco regional group originally with 3 men and 1 woman. B-o-b stood for "best of breed" as in dog show terminology. They were as you said, inventive and amazingly skilled musicians. They went on to do combined shows with a modern dance troupe and eventually split up.

I heard them in concert several times and their zanyness and superb musicianship always got standing, screaming ovations.

Subject: RE: Where are The Bobs?
From: Rick Fielding
Date: 22 Apr 00 - 10:09 PM

Mark, any idea if they were from Toronto? There was a band called "The Bobs" here who did a couple of albums a few years ago. (I never heard them) Or is this just a more common name than we think?

Rick

Subject: Who and where are The Bobs?
From: Mark Cohen
Date: 22 Apr 00 - 09:40 PM

Recently I found on an old cassette tape an incredible album called "My I'm Large" by an a capella group called The Bobs. The album was dubbed onto the tape so I have no liner notes, etc. It sounds like two men and two women, doing some *very* original material. They are amazingly talented writers, arrangers, and singers. Can anybody tell me more about these folks? I seem to recall something about these being the Northern Bobs, while the Southern Bobs were more of an old-time fiddle band. The album probably came out some time in the late 80's. Any help out there?
Aloha,
Mark