This day in music history.

December 20, 1973, Bobby Darin dies of heart failure at the age of 37. It occurs during Darin's second open-heart surgery in two years. He had a string of 14 Top Twenty singles between 1958 and 1966. The tune most often associated with him is "Mack the Knife," which was Number One for nine weeks in 1959. Darin was born to a poor, working-class family in The Bronx, New York, his father disappeared a few months before he was born. It was not until he was an adult that he learned that the woman he thought to be his sister Nina, 19 years his senior, was in fact his mother and his “mother” Polly was his grandmother!. The identity of his true father was never publicly disclosed. Childhood rheumatic fever had damaged Bobby’s heart, he knew someday he would need open-heart surgery, but delayed it for years hoping for medical advancements. Darin had been in 13 films, composed two full movie scores, and five title songs. He was a music publisher and record producer, he was also a Mensa member, with an IQ of 137, (in the top 2%). Bobby once said "Conceit is thinking you're great; egotism is knowing it." Sandra Dee, (his wife) said "Genius is close to madness and sometimes, yeah, it got in the way. He was simply one of a kind." Bobby Darins final utterance was his childhood phone number.
You're the reason I'm livin by Bobby Darin
You're the breath that I take
You're the stars in my heaven
You're the sun when I wake.
You're the reason I'm livin' …
Whoa …
you carry me through
All of life’s little burdens
I'd be lost without you.
A long, long time ago
When I was down
Whoa …
you picked me up
And showed me
True love still could be found.
You're the reason I do things
You're the things that I do
You're the reason I'm livin'
I'd be lost without you.
Come and tell me again …
You're the reason I'm livin' …
Whoa …
you carry me through
All of life's little burdens
I'd be lost without you.