Bobby Gonzales

Bobby Gonzales at His Best

 

Side A
It's Too late
All I Can Say Is goodbye
Help Yourself
The More I love You
Three Little words
Delilah

Side B
Baby Please Help me
I Get carried Away
My Little Lady
The Way It Used To Be
Don't Tell My Heart To stop Loving you
Always And Ever



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Salidummay

 

Side A
Salidummay
One Day, Isang Araw
Tugtugan
Huwag Kang Sumingit
Ako'y May Nalalaman
Sori Na Lamang

Side B
Dugtungan
Ander De Saya
Ay, Pepita
Ang Matampuhin Kong Nobya
Alak
Magandang Dalaga





One of the first popular Filipino ballerinas was Bobby Gonzales, whose major hit was "Hahabul-Habol"

Bobby actually started in the 1950's with Bayani Casimiro's entertainment group, Bayani's Merry-Go-Round. But good friend German Moreno, whose birthday it was (Oct. 4) when Bobby died, remembers watching the singer for the first time at the King’s Theater somewhere in Ongpin. Bobby, so German claims, sounded so much like Frankie Lane and a bit of Johnny Rey. When he sang Cry, the crowd cheered on and really went wild.

That was sometime in the mid 50s when German was still working as a janitor/telonero at the Clover Theater, when Clover also featured stage shows with movies as intermission the theater signed up Bobby Gonzalez as one of its regular performers.

Bobby became an instant hit at Clover Theater. Glittery American suits and sequined Barong Tagalog become his signature attire.

As a headliner then, Bobby often had to sing as many as 20 songs per show and there were three shows in one day (1, 3 and 9 p.m.)! "That time, paramihan ng kanta, which was why you had to know a lot of songs," volunteers German. This was the edge of Bobby Gonzales. He had a wide repertoire of songs. In every show, however, he had to sing Cry because the audience always asked for that. Next was Sunny Side of the Street.

After his Vegas stint, Bobby returned to the Philippines and even conquered local television. This was sometime in 1967. Pancho Magalona was then entering politics and had to take a leave from his daily grind as the main host of Magandang Tanghali in the old ABS-CBN Channel 3. bobby was taken in to pinch-hit for Pancho.



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