“Easy Come, Easy Go” (Bobby Sherman)

Former teen heartthrob Bobby Sherman passed away yesterday. In his memory, today’s classic song of the day is one of his biggest hits, “Easy Come, Easy Go.”

Bobby Sherman was born Robert Cabot Sherman Jr. on July 22, 1943. He started performing professionally when he was just 19 years old, in 1962, when actor Sal Mineo wrote two songs for Sherman to record. Subsequently, Sherman signed to perform on the ABC television program Shindig!, as a house singer and member of the show’s onscreen cast. That led to him signing with Decca Records, guesting on other teen music shows (such as American Bandstand and Where the Action Is), and getting his good-looking face plastered across an ungodly number of teen magazines. (Tiger Beat was a big one…)

In 1968, Bobby Sherman was cast as youngest brother Jeremy Bolt in the ABC television series Here Come the Brides, which aired from ’68 to ’70. He also guest starred on a number of other television programs in the late ’60s and early ’70s, including The Monkees, Honey West, and The Partridge Family. ABC claims that, as of 1970, Sherman had received more fan mail than any other performer on the network. He was, indeed, a teen heartthrob.

Bobby’s recording career really took off in 1969 with the release of “Little Woman,” which hit #3 on the Billboard Hot 100. That was followed by “La La La (If I Had You)” (#9 in 1969), “Julie, Do Ya Love Me” (#5 in 1970), and today’s classic song of the day, “Easy Come, Easy Go.”

Released in January of 1970, “Easy Come, Easy Go” peaked at #9 on the Billboard Hot 100, #7 on the Cash Box Top 100, and #2 on Billboard’s Easy Listening chart. The tune was written by Jack Keller and Diane Hildebrand, who between them were responsible for writing “Everybody’s Somebody’s Fool” for Connie Francis, “Venus in Blue Jeans” for Jimmy Clanton, “Run to Him” for Bobby Vee, and “Daydream Believer” for the Monkees. Keller also co-wrote (with Howard Greenfield) the theme songs for the TV series Gidget and Bewitched, and HIldebrand co-wrote the theme songs for The Flying Nun and The Partridge Family (the original one, “When We’re Singin'”).

Keller and Hildebrand originally offered “Easy Come, Easy Go” to Cass Elliott, who released it on her 1969 album, Bubblegum, Lemonade, and… Something for Mama. She didn’t release it as a single, but Bobby Sherman did, and many a teenager at the time bought that single and probably had Bobby Sherman’s poster taped up on their bedroom walls. (And not just teens; my pre-teen little sister was a big Bobby Sherman fan back then.)

Bobby Sherman kept recording, performing, and acting through the ’70s and the better part of the ’80s. He became a paramedic and volunteered for the Los Angeles Police Department, training new recurits in CPR and other emergency procedures. He later became a reserve deputy sheriff for the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department.

Mr. Sherman retired in 2010 and he and his wife Brigette founded the Brigette and Bobby Sherman Children’s Foundation, providing students in Ghana with meals, music, and educational opportunities. For the past several months he’d been suffering from kidney cancer, and finally succumbed to the disease on June 24, 2025. Bobby Sherman was 81 years old.

And here’s your daily bonus video of the day, Bobby Sherman lip-synching “Easy Come, Easy Go” on a television program in 1970. He was a very pleasant entertainer, wasn’t he?