Bobby jameson

Robert Parker Jameson † (April 20, 1945 - May 12, 2015 [aged 70]) was an American musician who uploaded videos for songs he wrote between the 1960s and 1980s.
==Personal life==
Bobby Jameson was born in Geneva, Illinois, and raised in Tucson, Arizona, where he spent a time in a juvenile detention centre. He later wrote that his "family life as a kid was the breeding ground for addicts."
Bobby later ended up living in Glendale, California. He participated in the 1966 .
Bobby spent his last thirty years dealing with substance abuse. At the age of fifty-eight, he lived in a central California trailer park with his mother, and was widely assumed dead. He died on May 12, 2015, at the age of seventy, due to an aneurysm.
==Career==
Bobby moved to Hollywood at seventeen. He made his first recording, "Let's Surf", in 1963, as “Bobby James”. At nineteen, he gained the attention of a manager. He later found that working with this manager "was impossible."
===Move to London===
Bobby moved to London in 1964, and signed to a label. In 1964, he released the record "I'm So Lonely/I wanna Love You. As "the direction of [his] career was not going where [he] wanted, [he] pretty much sabotaged it, for a reason to leave England." Due to a lack of success, so he moved back to Los Angeles in 1965. Upon his return, he found that he was being referred to as a new artist, now known as Jameson, and was not credited for his previous work.
===Vietnam===
In 1965, Bobby received his draft notice for the . He "was eligible for military induction and on [his] way to Vietnam, period." In response, he wrote the song "Vietnam." He did not recall any contracts regarding "Vietnam", but was "sure there was some sort of agreement about it somewhere." Bobby made no money for the writing or recording, and did not receive airplay in Los Angeles, due to perceived anti-war opinions.
===Songs of Protest and Anti-Protest===
Bobby is perhaps best known for the album Songs of Protest and Anti-Protest, was released in 1965 under the pseudonym Chris Lucey. A singer named Chris Ducey, who Bobby never met, had recorded an album that was cancelled at the last minute.
The album jackets were printed, so the album covers were altered to say Chris Lucey. Bobby had to rewrite all of the songs, and record the whole album. For unknown reasons, it featured a photo of . In the UK, the album had Bobby Jameson's own name, and the title Too Many Mornings. He later wrote that it was "a throw away album," and "made out of the need for money."
In 2002, it was reissued by , who Bobby alleged did not pay him.
===From 1967===
He appears in the 1967 documentary . Also in 1967, he released the LP Color Him In.
In 1968, he recorded his second solo album "Working", using the name Bobby Jameson. It was released in 1969, but people did not make a connection to his past work.
===End of career===
He remained in the music industry until 1985.
After more failed albums, he began taking drugs, was arrested twenty-seven times, and twice wrongly declared dead from overdoses. In 1985, he left Los Angeles, and retreated into obscurity.
===Resurfacing and YouTube===
In 2003, Bobby learned that Songs of Protest and Anti-Protest had been reissued, and music historian privately investigated to find him. Four years later, Bobby started a blog and YouTube channel, documenting his life and efforts to be paid for his music.
He uploaded his first video, bobby jameson talking, on July 18, 2008.
==Recognition==
In September 2017, released an album dedicated titled "Dedicated to Bobby Jameson".
==References==
Category:Music YouTubers
Category:American YouTubers
Category:Users who joined in 2008
Category:Deceased YouTubers