Teen idol Bobby Sherman (aka “the one who wasn’t David Cassidy”), 81, died on June 24. Sherman is best-known for costarring in Here Come the Brides, of which I was a huge fan—I saw a marathon of the show a few years ago, and it has aged surprisingly well. Sherman started his career as a singer and male starlet (Shindig, The Monkees, Honey West) before shooting to stardom as shy, stammering Jeremy on Brides (1968-70). He recorded several pop tunes (“Julie, Do You Love Me?,” “Easy Come, Easy Go,” “Little Woman”) and released 10 albums, but never became a top-seller. After Brides, he kept working: Getting Together, Mod Squad, Fantasy Island, Love Boat, Frasier. But his stardom was short-lived. By all accounts a nice, down-to-earth guy, in later years—rather than sex scandals and addiction rehab—Sherman became an EMT; he was a captain in the Los Angeles Police Department, where he taught CPR and life-saving techniques to incoming recruits. He looked back fondly on his acting career: “I worked with everybody, the best, and they actually paid me money to stand next to the people I idolized.”
Bobby Sherman sings Little Woman: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vd857GVQg6I
