Bobbys were inescapable in music in the '50s and '60s: Bobby Sherman, Bobby Rydell, Bobby Darin and more. NPR critic Bob Mondello looks back to an... What was with all those teen heartthrob Bobbys in ...

It’s always special to Bobby Rydell’s fans when he’s booked in Wildwood. But it could never be any more special than it is to Rydell himself. If the former teen singing idol had X-ray vision, he could ...

South Philly-born singer Bobby Rydell was a dominant force in pop music in the late 1950s and early ‘60s — with half-a-dozen top ten hits, and an acting career that made him a teen heartthrob. He ...

In the 1960s, hearthrobs named Bobby were everywhere. Clockwise from top left: Bobby Darin, Bobby Vee, Bobby Rydell, Bobby Goldsboro, Bobby Womack, and Bobby Sherman. (Keystone/Getty Images; Central ...