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Bobby Bloom

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American singer-songwriter

Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Country
US
Active from
1946-01-15
Active to
1974-02-28

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Listeners · Last.fm

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16,373
Total plays
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Bobby Bloom (1946 - February 28, 1974) was an American singer-songwriter. He is known best for being a one-hit wonder with the 1970 song "Montego Bay," which was co-written and produced by Jeff Barry. In the early 1960s, Bloom had been a member of the doo-wop group, The Imaginations. He received a big break in 1969 when he was awarded a contract to write and record a jingle for Pepsi, paving the way for his later success with "Montego Bay." He also played a role as a songwriter for the Kama Su

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. Measuring Economic Policy Uncertainty*

    · 2016 · cited 10,206x

  2. Observation of a new boson at a mass of 125 GeV with the CMS experiment at the LHC

    · 2012 · cited 6,597x

  3. Space/time trade-offs in hash coding with allowable errors

    · 1970 · cited 5,527x

  4. Global prevalence and burden of depressive and anxiety disorders in 204 countries and territories in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic

    · 2021 · cited 4,380x

  5. MERRA: NASA’s Modern-Era Retrospective Analysis for Research and Applications

    · 2011 · cited 3,879x

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date of death
1974-02-28
date of birth
1946-01-15
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1974-00-00
name in native language
Bobby Bloom
birth name
Robert Bloom
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