Use The Control Below To Listen To Larry's Story's About Bobby
Larry Sprinkle, Bobby's longtime friend and fellow Beach Music Hall of Fame inductee (class of 1999), delivered a touching but humorous eulogy about the first time he met Bobby, Bobby's early life and career. Listen in to hear about Bobby's ingenius plan to buy groceries at the Harris Teeter. If you knew Bobby, this is sure to bring a smile to your face! ___________________________________________ Listen As Butch and Roger Sing What A Wonderful World With Bobby
Bobby's longtime friend and manager, Chauncey Edwards delivered us all a big surprise from Bobby! Listen in and join along with the recording if you feel moved by Bobby's spirit and lust for life! Leave it to Bobby to leave everyone in the room with a big smile on their face! Please feel free to go to our guestbook 
We have temporarily suspended Bobby Singing What A Wonderful World on this page so that you may be more easily able to listen to the rememberance service excerpts posted below. If you wish the hear Bobby Sing What A Wonderful World, please use the player controls on the Multimedia Page.
Many Thanks For The Hundreds Of Folks Who Came Out To Celebrate The Life Of Bobby Smith At The First Baptist Church In Indian Trail, North Carolina on Saturday December 5, 2009!
Bobby loved EVERYBODY! but to those closest to him, you do not know what it meant to see such an outpouring of love for the memory of all those he touched!
Bobby's Family, Friends, and Current and Former Bandmates Joined Together Under One Roof To Laugh, Cry and Remember The Great Man Of Beach Music. Bobby is gone but he will Never be forgotten..his voice and spirit will continue on.
We will be posting more excerpts from the service on the Website over the next few weeks. These were recorded live from the gallery, so we apologize if there is occassional background noises. We wanted to remember this service just as it happened! We also hope to be able to post some of the photographs that were shown before and after the service, many of which have not been seen in almost 30 years!
If you have any vintage Poor Souls photos, videos or prgram materials, please let us know, we'd love to add it to a special tribute page on this site that will be launched in 2010!
A touching rendition of Butch Stone and Roger Smith singing What A Wonderful World with Bobby. We are so blessed that Butch was able to not only attend the service, but also perform, as he struggles with weekly regimes of chemotherapy in preparation for a marrow transplant in 2010. Butch apologizes that he was not able to meet with everyone personally, but his immune system is very weak at this time. Just coming out to the service in the damp and chilly air was a heroic effort. Please pray that his recovery will be speedy during the upcoming months.
To read Butch's story and receive updates on his progress, check out Caring Bridge and drop him a word of encouragement. Log on the www.caringbridge.com and enter the name butchstone in the space provided and press the "Visit A Website" button and follow the instructions on that site.
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Chauncey delivers a "Special Gift" to us all in attendance from Bobby
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and leave any thoughts, prayers or stories about Bobby. The band and family
have been reading them and do appreciate the kind words!
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The Poor Souls are NOT Over! Several of his bandmates, friends and family have chatted in the past week since the shocking news of our friend and brother, Bobby.
We do not know at this time, what the future holds, but we will be updating this site regularly with new and previously unseen/unheard content (pictures, video, music, stories and plans). We do think Bobby would have wanted his and the Poor Souls music to live on, so we will do our best to make that happen. Stay tuned!
2010 Schedule
UPDATES TO FOLLOW AS SOON AS WE CONFIRM THEM!
For general info contact:
Chauncey Edwards
call 704.651.5457
or Email
CE5763@aol.com
copy and paste address above
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Poor Soul Fans,
As many of you may know, Butch Stone of the Poor Souls has cancer, and he is getting ready for a bone marrow transplant. His last performance for a while, was at Throughbred's Lounge Saturday, October 10th. We want to say a BIG "Thank You" to all of our friends and fans that come out to support Butch and wish him well. It was a magical night that
I won't soon forget.
Chauncey
to contact Butch,
If you would like to give Butch some words of encouragement or just say hello, you can find him at www.caringbridge.com just type in
butchstone as the person to visit. This website will give you updates on his progress. I am sure he will appreciate it.
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Stay tuned!!!! More to come!!!!
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