Bobby Sherman's appearance on "The Merv Griffin Show" broadcast date:(approx:1969)
Transcribed by April from old audio tapes recorded off the T.V.
Show opens with Bobby singing "Little Woman"
MERV: Hi Ya Bobby!
BOBBY: Nice to see you.
MERV: You know , you've got one little section over here that's " freaking out", as they say.
BOBBY: They're beautiful.
MERV: The other thing that I noticed is that you young hip singers that have come on the show, you're doing peace signs.
BOBBY: Oh, yeah, sure.
MERV: I saw you do that....
BOBBY: Because they give them back, it's a way of communicating.
MERV: Ah....
BOBBY: You're young, Merv. You should.....
MERV: No, back in my day when they did that with their fingers they meant "ditto". Now they just keep their fingers straight like that.
BOBBY: (laughs)
MERV: Things are going well, aren't they?
BOBBY: Very, very nicely. I'm very happy. First of all I'd like to say congratulations to you and Mr Treacher for a great, great succcess. I know you can't lose.
MERV: Thank you.
BOBBY: You know, here's what you need Merv. Here's what you need..... You need some beads....that's what you need..
(claps from audience)
MERV: (laughing) You've got some high heels to go with them?
BOBBY: As George would say, "Get out of line, soldier!"
MERV: Bobby, it always amazes me when you don't stutter in person.
BOBBY: (laughs) Well, I tell ya.... We've dropped it this year.
MERV: Oh, yeah?
BOBBY: Well it turned out that every time I stuttered,even if they only gave me one line, the show would end up 15 minutes too long..... Because I'd pad my part.
MERV: Your stutters got longer?
BOBBY: (Bobby demonstrates) And I was saying Hello!
MERV: Why did they do that to you in the first place?
BOBBY: We think that because of the fact ........
MERV: (interrupts) Not that I am knocking the show, whatever. You've got a great television show. It's gutsy, with pioneer sprit. Why'd they do that to you?
BOBBY: Well, I think Richard Nash, who originally wrote the pilot for "Here Come The Brides", thought that Jeremy, the Bolt fella that I play.......(to audience member:) "Hi!"
MERV: Hi?
BOBBY: Well she was waving..... and....she...um ...is very sweet. (Bobby laughs, obviously embarrassed) Pretty face does it to you every time......(continues) He felt that Jeremy was the one who had truth and justice in his heart and it would just be a lot more difficult for him to say it. So.....you kind of get people to pull for ya. You know, Merv there's something I've got to say before I get off, because....
MERV: I don't want you to get off.
BOBBY: (laugh) Any minute now.......Last time I was on the show, we had talked about my car and all that....when I drive around....
MERV: (interrupts) You have a Rolls Royce.
BOBBY: But we were kidding around and I made the mistake by saying that when I drive it around I sit on telephone books........Well, um.....It's not true..... I've been receiving telephone books from all over the country.
MERV: Have you?
BOBBY: Little girls saying "When you drive your car will you sit on my city!"
MERV: Forward aren't they?....... What do you sit on?
BOBBY: (laughs) Oh, it's an old encyclopedia......No, I don't sit on anything....I had to clarify that because I was really getting.....I swear to you...
MERV: What year is your Rolls?
BOBBY: '62
MERV: Oh,it's a fairly new one.
BOBBY: It's a nice one. I really enjoy it. I've wanted one ever since I was that high(demonstrates with his hand) Which was just last week........So,I don't know, a lot of people say, "Oh come on, you're really being pretentious" and all that, but I just really love the classic lines to a Rolls.....
MERV: How do you live? Do you have a swimming pool and barbeque pit?
BOBBY: (laughs) I live in a.....in a....boy, that's going to sound pretentious again....I live in a penthouse. Its just an apartment, it's on the 4th floor.
(audience laughs)
BOBBY: (cont) But that's as high as you get in L.A., four floors is all!....I really like it and it's comfortable, it's close to the studio.
MERV: L.A. boy?
BOBBY: Yes, I was born in Santa Monica. so I...you know.... Hi!(to audience member who cheered) You a Californian?........ Boy, you have a lot of people here....
MERV: Family in show business, Bobby?
BOBBY: No, my dad, like played guitar in high school, but that's as far as the whole thing went. I figured I'd take over where he left off.
MERV: And your doing fine.
BOBBY: Thank you.
MERV: Come on Bobby, sing a song for us.
BOBBY: O.K.
MERV: What are you going to do?
BOBBY: "I'll Be Your Baby Tonight"
(Bobby sings)
MERV: From "Here Come The Brides", Bobby Sherman... We'll be right back.