Pay Joey - Bobby Sherwood

My Funny Valentine

Pal Joey
Bobby Sherwood & His Orchestra
Produced by Morty Palitz
Photo: Charles Varron
Design: Si Leichman/Toback
Jubilee LP 1061
1958

From the back cover: Bobby was born in Indianapolis. And that's enough about Indianapolis. He barnstormed out of there on a musical instrument. His folds were the musical vaudevillians, Bob & Gayle Sherwood & Co. 'Pops" was a singer and trombone player. Mother was an accomplished pianist.

When Bobby was 9, his fiddle-playing grandfather, James McDonald, taught him to play a banjo faster than anyone else in Indiana. Soon the "& C." meant Bobby and his kid sister, Gayle.

The act worked its way to California and settled there. Bobby continued to entertain around the Los Angeles clubs. He's been around the entertainment field ever since. And if there is a more versatile talent, no one has pointed him out.

Bobby has been Bing Crosby's guitar-playing accompanist, a production singer at the Paramount Theatre, a movie actor, a recording star, a featured artist with Benny Goodman and Artie Shaw, a Broadway actor, a TV comic, a writer, a TV panelist, an MC, and a famous bandleader with two records that sold over a million, "The Elk's Parade" and "Sherwood Forest".

Most amazing is the variety of his musical ability. Bobby once recorded an entire album with a 15-piece orchestra. Bobby plays ever single instrument heard in that album.

This album of "Pay Joey" music is pure perfect. All the songs heard are in the new moving picture. The pleasures and thrills of a big-band sound and a danceable beat are here. The authenticity of a movie sound track or an original cast album is here out of the portrayal of Bobby Sherwood feels for the Ned Galvin role. – Mort Goode

There's A Small Hotel
Do It The Hard Way
Bewitched, Bothered And Bewildered
You Mustn't Kick It Around
I Could Write A Book
My Funny Valentine
The Lady Is A Tramp
I Didn't Know What Time It Was
That Terrific Rainbow
A Great Big Town