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BOBBY HAMILTON

“Crazy Eyes for You”

(BOBBY HAMILTON, Stephen Schlaks)

Apt 25002

No. 40    August 4, 1958

REWRITTEN, UPDATED JULY 30, 2015

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Not much is known for certain about this long passed-over artist; aside from his being born Robert Caristo,

October 5, 1938, in Locust Valley, Long Island, New York.   “Crazy”–a rock-a-ballad, a lady’s choice, what

was called “a drag,” with no deference–was possibly his first 45 and the second release for the Apt label.

Follow-ups, what few known to have been issued [“”Oh Yeah”, Uh Huh”…], flopped.

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Voices have claimed that he latter moved to Detroit to write tunes.   Bob in the early ’60s, it has been

suggested, did manage to strike up a relationship with a singing mailman named Freddy Gorman, formerly

of the Voice Masters and later of the Originals.   Together the two did manage to create “(Just Like) Romeo

and Juliet” (#6, 1964), what would become a “One Hit Wonder” for the REFLECTIONS.  Thereafter, the trail

has been extinguished.