Bobby played guitar for little Richard & on one special evening, also for me...

I met Bobby several times. We’d go to the Recording Studio on Lankershim in North Hollywood where he was recording his follow up to his smash hit “What you won’t do for love”. Bobby was a wreck, boozing and drugging. and his Manager was pissed cause Bobby was spending a good part of his 90 K advance on stuff other than studio time. During one of his sessions in the Early 80’s we all end up at his Hotel Room in Hollywood where we were predictably all smoking and snorting away…Bobby C grabs his acoustic and played a medley of Beatles songs for about 20-30 minutes…We are doing all the classic Beatles tunes from “Back in the USSR” to “All My Lovin”. We end on “In my life” & Bobby sings a very poignant rare verse not always heard in the radio version. He told us all about this verse and the history behind it. Singing harmony and lead on Beatles tunes with Bobby that night was amazing. Last time I saw Bobby was in the old Sherman Oaks Guitar Center guessing around 1993 and we are facing each other about 20 feet away with acoustics in hand. I yelled “ Hey you look like Bobby Caldwell”. He says “That’s cause I am Bobby Caldwell “. We laughed as he remembered me and I was maybe a few years clean at the time and Bobby proudly said he was clean too…We lost touch over the years but it was good to see Bobby rebuilt his career and life overseas and had a tremendous following. I can always say I sang Beatles tunes with Bobby Caldwell…