finally tonight here the former Teen Idol from the gig films he could do it all he was the teenage heartrob there's no such thing as the next best thing to love in the 1959 Surfer movie gig James Darren is Moon doggy the summer Crush of Sandra d the film igniting the surfer craves born in South Philadelphia he said he never sang professionally before that role he would go on to star in two more gig movies gig goes Hawaiian and gig goes to Rome songs including her royal majesty and Goodbye cruel world oh goodbye Cru world he would go on to star in the 1980s cop show TJ hooker alongside William Shatner I'm a cop he was The Godfather to Nancy Sinatra's daughter and tonight Sinatra writing one of my dearest closest friends in all the world of all my life has passed away and you remembering James Darren tonight