Bobby Sherman Gives Good Spa Performance

by Marilyn Nason, The Post-Star, September 13, 1971

Teeny-boppers and parents made up the 6,000 attending Bobby Sherman’s performance Saturday night at Saratoga Performing Arts Center.

They had a whale of a time, just as they had when this 25-year-old singing sensation appeared last summer. It was a noisy, shrieking, squealing crowd that never sat still. In fact they were either racing down the aisles to snap his picture, get near the stage for him to see their faces or jumping up and down on the seats.

Some of the mothers showed some pretty good open-field running, too, as they dragged their youngsters down the aisle or broke the way for them through the crowd.

Despite all this apparent mayhem, it was a clean, wholesome crowd, nary a whiff of marijuana in the amphitheatre or on the lawn. No one could find any fault with the entire evening either onstage or in the audience. The remaining debris was negligible, too, thank heavens.

The little girls went ga-ga over their singing idol, who provided the songs and gyrations they wanted. Everbody had a ball. Sherman seemed a bit slower this year onstage, reportedly suffering from a recent back injury.

Last year, he raced back and forth constantly across the stage, leaping on and off some high risers. This year, he contented himself largely with walking across the stage, stepping up on much lower platforms, doing considerable hand-shaking with a few kisses to those who crowded down front.

He sang his hits, “Easy Come, Easy Go,” “Julie, Do You Love Me?,” “I Cried Like a Baby” and “What’d I Say?” Each song ran for five minutes or more and allowed full time for Sherman to make his way around the stage charming the life out of everyone.

Sherman is the perfect young man to be a teenage idol. He sings capably, has an infectious smile, hair just long enough to be in, works hard without pause for an hour and never creates a hint of obscenity, off-color words or movement at any time.

Opening the show was a group called Bethel Road, who proved to be four good musi cians, who played familiar rock, country, western and pop tunes that the audience loved.

They returned augmented by three more musicians as musical backup for Sherman.