Bobby Darin was a tremendous talent and he came out on the stage with all the confidence in the world. Some people thought he was a brash, cocky kid. And in some ways he was. When he was twenty-two he told the press that at twenty-five he was going to be a living legend. The kid gave himself three years. I’m eighty-eight, and if I’m going to be a living legend by ninety-one, I better get busy.

Underneath all that bravado Bobby Darin was a very caring, sensitive person. I remember when…