Sherman got his first break while he was attending Pierce College in the San Fernando Valley. As he would later recall it, he was dating a girl who knew a famous Hollywood director and was invited to a July 4 party at a beachside home, which turned out to be filled with celebrities. He knew some of the members of the band that was performing at the party from high school, and when he was encouraged to jump up and sing a couple of numbers with them, it turned out to be fateful. “When I started singing, kids started jumping up on the wall from the public side, I guess, to see who was singing,” he told writer Ann Moses. “After it was all over, Jane Fonda and Natalie Wood came up to me and said, ‘We think you’re very talented, are you being managed?’ I said, ‘No, not really.’ And they said, ‘Well you should do something about it.'”, Bobby Sherman, whose winsome smile and fashionable shaggy mop top helped make him into a teen idol in the 1960s and ’70s with bubblegum pop hits like “Little Woman” and “Julie, Do Ya Love Me,” has died. He was 81. His wife, Brigitte Poublon, announced the death Tuesday and family friend John Stamos posted her message on Instagram: “Bobby left this world holding my hand — just as , Bobby Sherman was a teen idol in the 1960s and '70s with bubblegum pop hits like "Little Woman" and "Julie, Do Ya Love Me." Do Ya Love Me," has died, his wife said in a statement posted to .