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Teen Heartthrob, Singer, and EMT Trainer
Bobby Sherman, Dead at 81

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Posted By: JoElla Bee, 6/25/2025 6:17:19 PM

I used to work in and around Hollywood, so I know how the game is played and how stars are "made." The majority of supposed "discoveries" are acts that have been trotted out and poll-tested for years, even decades. Teen heartthrob, singer, and actor Bobby Sherman is among the last of true Hollywood discoveries. Sherman was born and raised in the San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles in the 1960s.[snip] His face was printed on lunchboxes, cereal boxes and posters that hung on the bedroom walls of his adoring fans. He landed at No. 8 in TV Guide’s list of “TV’s 25 Greatest Teen Idols.”

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He walked away from fame to work toward saving lives as an EMT and LE Officer in 1988. One of the good guys.

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Reply 1 - Posted by: earlybird 6/25/2025 7:16:53 PM (No. 1969414)
What a rare, special man. Thank you for posting. His wife's tribute is something I might have written about my late husband.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: franq 6/25/2025 7:38:35 PM (No. 1969426)
A life well lived. Marriage and devotion as God intended, at least the second time around. All is vanity in Tinseltown. He must have realized it.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: BeatleJeff 6/25/2025 7:45:04 PM (No. 1969429)
While I certainly knew his name, he was a bit before my time. By the time I began getting into pop culture in the mid 70s, his time in the spotlight had already waned.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: DVC 6/25/2025 8:04:35 PM (No. 1969436)
EMTs are wonderful, important people. He chose well. Yesterday, the trauma hospital where I was taken after my accident last summer had a "meet the first responders and trauma team" event. I had the opportunity to meet and thank the EMT in the ambulance and the firemen who got me off the trail, to the ambulance and to the hospital. I spent some extra time with the lady EMT who took care of me in the ambulance. She had her two children with her, a boy about 12 and girl about 8 or 9. They were clearly bored with all the "adult stuff". She introduced her son, and I told him "Did you know your mother is a hero?" He nodded and smiled. She pointed to her daughter a distance away, and I called her over to tell her the same thing. "Did you know that your mother helped save my life?". The EMT beamed, and we hugged, and I again thanked her and asked about what she had done, since I had no memory of the ambulance ride, guessing that I was unconscious. She told me that I was talking, responding to questions, and I said, "Well, I wasn't laying down memories." She said "not something to want to remember." with a wry grin. I also spent a good bit of time with the head trauma surgeon, thanking him and talking about my care. He was very happy to see me up and getting around well, and said "It's nice to see good outcomes". They rarely get to know what happens after the patient leaves the hospital, often on in a wheelchair or in my case, on a gurney to go to long term rehab. He talked about some patients who "you just cannot save" and it's great to see patients who were in very bad shape, but who pull through pretty well. It has to be a tough job to always work with seriously injured people, and not always winning. I can see how Sherman would enjoy helping people. And thank God for all those EMTs out there and trauna docs that help us when we desperately need it and cannot help ourselves. RIP, sir. Your EMT work was a much more important thing than Hollywood fluff and fame.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: thefield 6/25/2025 8:07:06 PM (No. 1969437)
He was my oldest sister's 1 st dream singer. I liked his songs also. "hey little woman.."
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Reply 6 - Posted by: franco 6/25/2025 9:48:56 PM (No. 1969471)
Our family moved when I was in second grade around Christmas of 1970 and I finished the second half of that year (early 1971) in a new school in a new town with a bunch of kids that were strangers, at least initially. One of my classmates was a particularly mean girl (to everyone) named Julie, but I caused her to cry by singing "Julie Do You Love Me?" [https://youtu.be/i9jwLMuzM0g] to her in a half-taunt, half-serenade at recess. She chased me around the playground with clenched fists, swearing she'd beat me to a pulp (even other boys were scared of her because allegedly she was good with her fists), but she never caught me before the recess period ended and she began crying on the way back to the classroom. The teacher asked her what the problem was, but she wouldn't say. She didn't come after me to get even later and even treated me civilly after that, though she was still mean to most of the other kids. I think she was growing up in an abusive situation.
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Reply 7 - Posted by: Sunhan65 6/25/2025 10:41:58 PM (No. 1969485)
He sounds like a good man. My childhood memories include his guest appearances on The Partridge Family (I'm old enough that it was in first run) and this... It was not just his face that appeared on cereal boxes. His music did too. They printed and included one if his songs on a thin plastic sheet that could be detached and played on a phonograph after the box was empty. As kids we, of course, emptied all the cereal out immediately and cut along the dotted lines to remove the record. Sure enough it played. Wobbly and low fidelity but it played. It made us happy to have this minor miracle included in our cereal box. I hope Bobby Sherman is happy now.
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Reply 8 - Posted by: athina 6/25/2025 10:51:09 PM (No. 1969486)
What a wonderful tribute to a wonderful man. It’s great to know his whole story. I am of the age when Bobby Sherman was the heartthrob ~ I absolutely loved the pop music of the 60s and 70s.
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