21 Facts About Bobby Jameson

Robert Parker Jameson was an American singer-songwriter who was briefly promoted as a major star in the early 1960s and later attracted a cult following with his 1965 album Songs of Protest and Anti-Protest, issued under the name Chris Lucey.

Bobby Jameson's life was affected by personal misfortune, followed by alcoholism and criminal activity.

Bobby Jameson was born in Geneva, Illinois, but by the age of 10 was living with his mother, stepfather and brother in Tucson, Arizona.

In 1964, while sharing a house in Hollywood with Danny Whitten, Billy Talbot, and Ralph Molina, Bobby Jameson met Tony Alamo, who became his manager and promised to make him a star.

Bobby Jameson just showed up one day in a coffee shop in Hollywood with a copy of both publications and I was in them.

However, the follow-up, "Okey Fanokey Baby", was less successful, and Bobby Jameson wanted to get away from Alamo's increasingly manipulative behavior.

Proby, who had already achieved success in Britain, Bobby Jameson traveled to London, where Andrew Loog Oldham had expressed an interest in recording him.

Again it was unsuccessful and Bobby Jameson returned to Los Angeles.

The record was released without fanfare, with Bobby Jameson credited as songwriter, but without any agreement over his legal rights to the recordings.

Bobby Jameson was featured, along with many others, in the experimental 1967 documentary movie Mondo Hollywood, directed by Robert Carl Cohen, in which he talked about his beliefs and career, and was filmed with his then-girlfriend Gail Sloatman and recording "Metropolitan Man".

Bobby Jameson made a brief uncredited cameo in the 1967 CBS documentary Inside Pop: The Rock Revolution.

Later in 1966, Bobby Jameson recorded two singles for the Penthouse label, a Mira subsidiary, owned by Ken Handler and Norm Ratner.

Bobby Jameson began working with arranger and producer Curt Boettcher on an album, Color Him In.

The album, credited simply to Bobby Jameson, was released in early 1967 by Verve Records as a result of Bobby Jameson's connections with Zappa.

Increasingly, Bobby Jameson became frustrated and disillusioned with the fact that he had never received any financial rewards from his music.

Bobby Jameson was hospitalized several times after drug overdoses and other suicide attempts, detailed in his later blog.

Bobby Jameson intermittently made unreleased recordings, with Jesse Ed Davis, Ben Benay and others, and in 1972 featured in an article about his life and personal troubles in Rolling Stone magazine.

Bobby Jameson recorded several tracks for RCA in the late 1970s, but they were unreleased, aside from one single issued as Robert Parker Jameson.

Bobby Jameson was brought back to the public eye by music historian Steve Stanley, who conducted a private investigation into Jameson's whereabouts.

In 2007, Bobby Jameson started a blog, detailing his life and his continuing attempts to seek some financial recompense for his earlier recordings.

On May 12,2015, Bobby Jameson died in San Luis Obispo, aged 70, of an aneurysm in his descending aorta.