Bobby Comstock
Bobby Comstock was from Ithaca, New York and had a hit in 1963 with "I Want To Do It."
Bobby Comstock Interview
The following interview was excerpted from Gary James' site Famous Interviews. For the complete interview, see Full text of Bobby Comstock interview.
Along with The Counts, Bobby Comstock, enjoyed considerable success not only in the Central New York area but nationally as well.
He appeared on Alan Freed’s t.v. show; did the Dick Clark Cavalcade of Stars Tour; and got a lot of play with a song called-----“I Wanna Do It”.
Q – Did you write that song “I Wanna Do It”?
A – No. Actually, the same guys that wrote the other side which was the Billboard chart record called ‘Let’s Stomp’. That’s how it originally came out. It was a Feldman Goldstein Goder, FGG Productions. They were also The Strangelove’s, ‘I Got Candy’. That was them. They were in on writing songs for that. Actually Wes Farrell produced ‘Let’s Stomp’ and ‘I Want To Do It’. FGG also did The Angels. So, I was playing guitar on The Angels sessions, ‘Your Boyfriends Back’ and with Freddy Cannon on a few sessions ‘cause they wrote some songs for him.
Q – So how did you get “I Want To Do It”? Did someone pitch that song to you?
A – They did. I met Wes Farrell when he was first starting. He was working for a publisher, Roosevelt Music; I think a guy named Hal Fine. In those days, you’d go to these publishers at 1650 Broadway. They’d play demos for you. Different songwriters applied. We met FGG, Bob Feldman, Larry Goddard and Richie Goldstein. They liked me. I liked them, so they started writing songs for me.
Q – Did they ever tell you how long it took to write that song?
A – No. With those guys you can’t tell. (Laughs). Even after splitting up, they all stayed in the business big time. Goldstein produced War. Goddard produced the Go-Go’s. It was a lot of fun. It was actually a whole group of people hanging out together in New York at that time. We’d go down on a Monday. There was Neil Diamond before he recorded. He was pushing songs as a songwriter. Larry Weiss who wrote ‘Help Me Girl’ and ‘Rhinestone Cowboy’ was there. It was just a group of people that were always around that were all trying to break into the business.
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