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Robert Hunter Caldwell (born August 15, 1951) is an American singer and songwriter who recorded the hit single "What You Won't Do for Love" in 1978. After several R&B and smooth jazz albums, Caldwell turned to singing standards from the Great American Songbook. He maintains a loyal following in Japan.

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AMAZING lineup AVERAGE show. Norman Brown, Marion Meadows and Bobby Caldwell all legends and only one of their legendary hits was played / sung throughout the entire concert...What you do for love by Bobby Caldwell. The rest of the concert was a constant parade of their spin on Christmas retreads from the 1950’s. While all the songs were well played, it was NOT worth the money. You would be better served streaming their respective Christmas albums.

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Bobby Caldwell , the soulful singer-songwriter who scored a top 10 hit with “What You Won’t Do for Love” and wrote “The Next Time I Fall,” a No. 1 hit for Amy Grant and Peter Cetera, died today at his home in New York City after a long illness. He was 71.

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His wife, Mary Caldwell, announced the news on social media , saying: “I held him tight in my arms as he left us. I am forever heartbroken. Thanks to all of you for your many prayers over the years.” She added that his health had deteriorated for more than six years since suffering an allergic reaction to an antibiotic.

Back in the Sunshine State, he was signed to Clouds Records, a unit of Henry Stone’s TK Records that was having huge success with KC and the Sunshine Band. In 1978, Caldwell recorded one of his self-penned songs, “What You Won’t Do for Love,” a smooth, sophisticated ballad punctuated by horns. Released as a red, heart-shaped 45, the song took off and landed in the Top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100. His self-titled debut album just missed the Top 20 as Caldwell toured opening for Natalie Cole.

The enduring song since has been covered by scores of artists — Tupac Shakur famously sampled it in his posthumously released 1998 hit “Do for Love” — and appeared in films and TV series including About Last Night and Mindhunter.

But TK Records would fold in the early ’80s, and the singer was unable to replicate that U.S. success with his follow-up singles and albums, though he remained popular in Japan. He dabbled in writing commercial jingles and penned some songs for The New Mickey Mouse Club , and around that time — at the behest of his friend Boz Scaggs — Caldwell began peddling his songs to other artists.

“I had never before looked at myself as a songwriter for other people,” he told interviewer Steve Appleford in 1991. “It’s a whole different head space, writing for somebody else’s style. But I had a lot of fun doing it.”

The mid-’80s would see Caldwell writing songs for films and TV shows including Simone and The Perfect Man along with other acts recording his tunes.

“I had never before looked at myself as a songwriter for other people,” he said in a 1991 interview with the Los Angeles Times . It’s a whole different head space, writing for somebody else’s style. But I had a lot of fun doing it.”

Caldwell would continue to write, record and tour into the 2010s and remained big in Japan.

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Caldwell also penned the chart-topping song "The Next Time I Fall"

Bobby Caldwell, the blue-eyed soul singer best known for his hit single “What You Won’t Do for Love,” has died at the age of 71.

Caldwell’s wife, Mary, confirmed the singer’s death on social media on Wednesday, March 15th. TMZ reports that he had been battling an unspecified illness for several years.

As a teenager, Caldwell moved to Los Angeles to pursue a career in music. He briefly played rhythm guitar for Little Richard, but it took six years for him to catch his big break and land a recording deal with TK Records. “What You Won’t Do for Love,” appeared on his 1978 self-titled debut album, and hit the top 10 on the Billboard Hot 100. In the ensuing years, the song would be sampled by a number of hip-hop and R&B artists, including Tupac on “Do for Love.”

As TK Records mainly released records by Black artists, the label initially sought conceal that Caldwell was white by using a silhouette on the cover of his debut album. “But that was quickly laid to rest when I had my first tour which was opening for Natalie Cole… She was playing large venues, 4,500-plus. And ‘What You Won’t Do For Love’ was, at that point, working its way up, so I was very surprised at seeing nothing but black in the audience. And certainly they were probably more surprised than I was,” Caldwell recalled in a 2005 interview with NPR .

“I walked out on stage and you could hear a pin drop, just a total hush came over the crowd,” he separately told Red Bull Music Academy . “It was like, ‘What the fuck is this!?’ I stayed and delivered, after about ten minutes, I had them in my pocket. That was the night I became a man, I’ll tell ya.”

Caldwell released several more albums throughout the 1980s, including Cat in the Hat and Carry On . “Open Your Eyes,” from Cat in the Hat , was later sampled by J Dilla on Common’s “The Light,” and covered by John Legend.

Caldwell also penned the chart-topping song sung by “The Next Time I Fall” for Peter Cetera and Amy Grant. Additionally, he wrote music on behalf of Neil Diamond, Roy Ayers, Roberta Flack, and Natalie Cole.

Later in his career, Caldwell’s interest shifted to recording big band arrangements of Frank Sinatra and other music from the Great American Songbook. He also portrayed Sinatra in the Las Vegas musical The Rat Pack is Back .

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Bobby Caldwell, a blue-eyed soul singer whose smooth touch camouflaged his idiosyncrasies, died on Tuesday following a long illness. He was 71.

His wife Mary Caldwell announced his death on Twitter.

“What You Won’t Do For Love,” Caldwell’s lone Billboard Top 40 hit, is a defining single of late-1970s soft rock, occupying a place between mellow adult contemporary and sultry quiet storm R&B. Although Caldwell spent time writing songs for adult contemporary artists — he co-wrote “The Next Time I Fall,” a hit duet for Peter Cetera and Amy Grant in 1986 — he carved out a larger place in R&B than pop; early in his career, the white singer was often mistaken for Black due to his soulful phrasing and grooves. Although he was grounded in soul, fusion was Caldwell’s specialty. As his career progressed, he threaded in stronger elements of jazz, eventually becoming a fixture in contemporary jazz settings.

As Caldwell maintained a career as a smooth jazz musician, younger generations discovered rhythms and grooves lying in his albums from the 1970s and early 1980s. Initially sampled by Aaliyah on 1994’s “Age Ain’t Nothing But a Number,” “What You Won’t Do for Love” turned into a foundational sample in hip-hop after Tupac Shakur interpolated it on 1997’s “Do for Love.” It wasn’t the only Caldwell track to provide source material for rappers: Common sampled “Open Your Eyes” in 2000, while Lil Nas X recently sampled “Carry On.”

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Caldwell dabbled in various jazz styles, including interpreting the great American songbook in the vein of Frank Sinatra. He continued in this vein until the late 2010s, when he put his career on hold to deal with the side effects of being “floxed,” a bad reaction to a fluoroquinolone antibiotic. The condition eventually led to his death.

Born in Manhattan on Aug. 15, 1951, Caldwell spent his childhood in Miami. Raised in a showbiz family — his parents hosted a musical variety show called “Suppertime” — Caldwell started playing guitar and piano as a teenager. He headed to Las Vegas, where he played originals and covers in a group called Katmandu, then relocated to Los Angeles when he got a gig playing guitar in Little Richard’s band during the singer’s comeback in the early 1970s.

After splitting with Little Richard, Caldwell ground out a living in L.A. but never managed to land a record deal. Dejected, Caldwell moved back to Miami in 1977. At that time, Miami was the unofficial disco capital of the world thanks in part to the music emanating from TK Records, a label that boasted KC and the Sunshine Band and Anita Ward among their acts. Caldwell made an overture to TK Records, and the label signed him within a couple of days.

TK Records hoped to pattern Bobby Caldwell after Boz Scaggs, a singer who’d just had a smash hit with his LP “Silk Degrees.” Caldwell recalled, “I think they saw me as their guy to usher in something with more of a pop approach to R&B music, without the pounding of a kick drum and the nonsensical disco lyrics.” He spent 10 months toiling over his debut, adding “What You Won’t Do For Love” at the last minute. Believing the song could be a hit, TK Records decided to release the single and its accompanying eponymous album without Caldwell’s picture on its cover, fearing that R&B radio wouldn’t play a white act.

The sleight-of-hand worked: Upon its 1978 release, “What You Won’t Do For Love” climbed into the Top 10 not only on Billboard’s Hot 100 but also on its R&B chart. In the wake of its success, Natalie Cole picked Bobby Caldwell as her support act. On the tour’s opening night, a scenario that would soon become familiar to Caldwell happened for the first time: “It’s the very first night in Cleveland, at an amphitheater. We’re talking about 7,000 brothers and sisters, and I was the only cracker there, and everyone is coming to hear ‘soul brother’ Bobby Caldwell. I walked out on stage and you could hear a pin drop, just a total hush came over the crowd. I stayed and delivered. After about 10 minutes, I had them in my pocket.”

Caldwell’s second album, 1980’s “Cat in the Hat,” earned another R&B hit with “Coming Down From Love.” TK Records folded in 1981, so Caldwell moved to Polydor for 1982’s “Carry On.” A year later, “August Moon” received a release only in Japan, a sign that his career momentum had stalled. Caldwell spent the mid-1980s concentrating on creating pop music for film soundtracks, which sometimes took him into curious territory: He wrote a pumping workout anthem called “Don’t Quit” for the fitness series “Body by Jake” and also recorded “Take Me, I’ll Follow You,” the theme song to “Mac and Me,” a 1988 ripoff of “E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial.” He also wrote songs for Chicago, Neil Diamond and Scaggs, among other adult contemporary-oriented singers. His biggest success as a songwriter was “The Next Time I Fall,” which Cetera and Grant took to No. 1 in 1986; it was also nominated for the Grammy Award for pop performance by a duo or group with vocals.

Capitalizing on the success of “The Next Time I Fall,” Caldwell released a bright soft-rock album called “Heart of Mine” in 1989. With its 1991 sequel “Stuck on You,” he began moving in a contemporary jazz direction, fusing old-fashioned crooning with smooth grooves. This blend became his signature over the ensuing decades. He’d occasionally shift direction — 1995’s “Soul Survivor” emphasized R&B, while 1999’s “Come Rain or Shine” tilted toward big band — yet he remained anchored in this lightly funky fusion.

During the 2000s, Caldwell remained a popular concert attraction, both on his own and as a part of the Vegas revue “The Rat Pack Is Back,” where he played Frank Sinatra. On record, he continued to alternate between standards and originals, working familiar territory until 2015, when he teamed with R&B producer Jack Splash, best known for his work with Alicia Keys and Solange Knowles on the album “Cool Uncle.”

Caldwell is survived by his wife, Mary, and two children from a previous marriage.

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• Have fun time with a very friendly local;
• + Atmospheric Metro lunch in Moscow’s the only Metro Diner (included in a 3-hr tour)

Hotel Pick-up

Metro stations:.

Komsomolskaya

Novoslobodskaya

Prospekt Mira

Belorusskaya

Mayakovskaya

Novokuznetskaya

Revolution Square

Sparrow Hills

+ for 3-hour tour

Victory Park

Slavic Boulevard

Vystavochnaya

Dostoevskaya

Elektrozavodskaya

Partizanskaya

Museum of Moscow Metro

• Drop-off  at your hotel, Novodevichy Convent, Sparrow Hills or any place you wish
• + Russian lunch  in Metro Diner with artistic metro-style interior for 3-hour tour

Fun facts from our Moscow Metro Tours:

From the very first days of its existence, the Moscow Metro was the object of civil defense, used as a bomb shelter, and designed as a defense for a possible attack on the Soviet Union.

At a depth of 50 to 120 meters lies the second, the coded system of Metro-2 of Moscow subway, which is equipped with everything you need, from food storage to the nuclear button.

According to some sources, the total length of Metro-2 reaches over 150 kilometers.

The Museum was opened on Sportivnaya metro station on November 6, 1967. It features the most interesting models of trains and stations.

Coffee Ring

The first scheme of Moscow Metro looked like a bunch of separate lines. Listen to a myth about Joseph Stalin and the main brown line of Moscow Metro.

Zodiac Metro

According to some astrologers, each of the 12 stops of the Moscow Ring Line corresponds to a particular sign of the zodiac and divides the city into astrological sector.

Astrologers believe that being in a particular zadiac sector of Moscow for a long time, you attract certain energy and events into your life.

Paleontological finds 

Red marble walls of some of the Metro stations hide in themselves petrified inhabitants of ancient seas. Try and find some!

• Every day each car in  Moscow metro passes  more than 600 km, which is the distance from Moscow to St. Petersburg.
• Moscow subway system is the  5th in the intensity  of use (after the subways of Beijing, Tokyo, Seoul and Shanghai).
• The interval in the movement of trains in rush hour is  90 seconds .

What you get:

• + A friend in Moscow.
• + Private & customized Moscow tour.
• + An exciting pastime, not just boring history lessons.
• + An authentic experience of local life.
• + Flexibility during the walking tour: changes can be made at any time to suit individual preferences.
• + Amazing deals for breakfast, lunch, and dinner in the very best cafes & restaurants. Discounts on weekdays (Mon-Fri).
• + A photo session amongst spectacular Moscow scenery that can be treasured for a lifetime.
• + Good value for souvenirs, taxis, and hotels.
• + Expert advice on what to do, where to go, and how to make the most of your time in Moscow.

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