Birth name Robert Mosley Name Robert Mosley Years active Fifties and Sixties | Genres Pop music Origin United States | |
Occupation(s) Singer, songwriter, producer Labels Coed, Glory, MGM, Roulette | ||
Robert "Bob" Mosley, also written as Mosely, is an American singer, songwriter and producer. He has recorded singles as a solo artist as well as in the duo Mayme & Robert. His compositions reached hit positions in the United States and abroad.
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He recorded several singles at the end of the fifties and in the first half of the sixties, as a solo singer as well as in the duo Mayme & Robert (with Mayme Roberts). In 1963 he issued Crazy 'bout My Baby which was covered in Sweden by Tages. The B-Side of it, Goodbye my Lover, Goodbye, was popular among quite some artists and was covered more than ten times. For instance by The Searchers that had an international hit with it in 1965. Mosley was (co-)writer of these songs.
All together twelve of his (co-)compositions reached the Billboard Hot 100. Artists that recorded his music were, among others, Nat King Cole, Sarah Vaughan, The Shirelles, The Ventures, Pat Boone, Connie Francis, Patti Page, Manfred Mann and The Cats.
He worked together sometimes with Luther Dixon in these years.