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Elsbeary Hobbes

NPR

Published June 8, 1996 at 11:00 PM CDT

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Elsbeary Hobbes, who sang with The Drifters, died ten days ago at the age of 59. Hobbes and The Drifters were inducted into the Rock-and-Roll Hall of Fame in 1990. The band's first big hit was "There Goes My Baby".