There is a wide selection of performers named Bobby Martin with whom an Ohio rocker from the late '50s could conceivably be mixed up with. In addition, one of this performers' most widely distributed songs -- if such a description can be doled out to material obscure as this -- is entitled "Sleepy Time Blues," a notion that apparently kept several other songwriters and recording artists awake. Different songs with this identical title have been recorded by artists such as jazzman Jabbo Smith, folkie Ralph McTell and rhythm and blues producer Lester Bihari.
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