Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Performers · birth-card coordinate
Bobby Hatfield's Birth Card: The 3 of Diamonds
The Success Communicator
A birth card is a calendar coordinate for the month and day. It is not fortune-telling and does not predict a Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction.
In the record
Robert Lee Hatfield (August 10, 1940 – November 5, 2003) was an American singer. The birth-card coordinate for August 10 is the 3 of Diamonds — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 2003 Performers with The Righteous Brothers induction.
Rock Hall record
- 2003 Performers — inducted member of The Righteous Brothers
The 3 of Diamonds coordinate
Bobby Hatfield's birthday maps to the 3 of Diamonds (The Success Communicator). Card Blueprints treats that as a 365-day coordinate: solar value = 55 − (2 × month + day), and the year is unused. It is not a prediction about a Rock & Roll Hall of Fame vote and not a verdict on Bobby Hatfield. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You keep more than one path alive without letting any of them stay imaginary.
Bobby Hatfield in the public record
He and Bill Medley performed together as the Righteous Brothers. He sang the tenor part for the duo and sang solo on the group's 1965 recording of "Unchained Melody". Born in Beaver Dam, Wisconsin, Hatfield moved with his family to Anaheim, California, when he was four. He attended Anaheim High School, where he played football and baseball and was co-captain of the basketball team. He was student body president in the 1957–1958 school year, graduating in 1958. Hatfield was scouted by the Los Angeles Dodgers. He briefly considered signing as a professional ballplayer, but his passion for music led him to pursue a singing career while still attending high school. He attended Fullerton College.
Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Bobby Hatfield (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.
Where the record meets the 6 of Hearts
A card is a calendar coordinate, not a cause. What follows sets one line of the card's own published language beside one sentence of the sourced record, paired by a documented rule. It is a resemblance offered for the reader to weigh — not a claim about Bobby Hatfield, and not a forecast of induction.
Cards in Bobby Hatfield's fixed path
Birth card and karma
- 3♦ — Birth Card: The Success Communicator
- Q♦ — Karma — Environment: The Prosperous Nurturer
- 6♥ — Karma — Displacement: The Devoted Caregiver
Life Spread (Mercury → Result / Cosmic Reward)
- A♠ — Life Spread — Mercury
- 7♥ — Life Spread — Venus
- 7♦ — Life Spread — Mars
- 5♠ — Life Spread — Jupiter
- J♥ — Life Spread — Saturn
- 9♣ — Life Spread — Uranus
- 9♠ — Life Spread — Neptune
- 2♥ — Life Spread — Pluto
- K♥ — Life Spread — Result / Cosmic Reward
The planetary ruling card for this birthday is the birth card itself, 3♦, so it adds no further cards to the path.
Birth card from the month and day. Karma cards are fixed to the birth card. The planetary ruling card comes from the sun sign's ruling planet — the signs with two rulers carry two. The Life Spread is the birth card's fixed row of nine in the Life Spread — the cards that colour each 52-day period for life. Planetary period and long-range cards move year by year and are not shown on a static page.
Integrating genuine care with healthy boundaries
Born in Beaver Dam, Wisconsin, Hatfield moved with his family to Anaheim, California, when he was four.
Paired on relationship and feeling — the domain ♥ governs in this system. Markers in the record: family.
Also on the record
- He eventually encountered his singing partner, Bill Medley, while attending California State University, Long Beach.
- Hatfield was an alumnus of Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity.
- Bobby Hatfield initially was in a group from Anaheim called the Variations.
- In 1962, Hatfield joined with Medley, who was in a group called the Paramours, and formed a five-member group using the same name: Paramours.
Other inductees with this card
- Alan White — 2017 Performers with Yes
- Boyd Tinsley — 2024 Performers with Dave Matthews Band
- Christine McVie — 1998 Performers with Fleetwood Mac
- James Honeyman-Scott — 2005 Performers with The Pretenders
- Janet Jackson — 2019 Performers
- Krist Novoselic — 2014 Performers with Nirvana
- Nate Mendel — 2021 Performers with Foo Fighters
- Neil Diamond — 2011 Performers
- Renaldo "Obie" Benson — 1990 Performers with The Four Tops
- Rick Savage — 2019 Performers with Def Leppard
- Rod Argent — 2019 Performers with The Zombies
- Ron McKernan — 1994 Performers with The Grateful Dead
- 3 more inductees share this card.
FAQ
- What is Bobby Hatfield's birth card?
- The 3 of Diamonds. August 10 maps to that card through the public Card Blueprints formula. The year of birth is not used.
- Does a birth card predict a Rock Hall induction?
- No. These pages are coordinates, not fortune-telling. A birth card names a calendar day in a 52-card year. It does not forecast awards, character, or fate.
- Where do Bobby Hatfield's dates come from?
- Birth date 1940-08-10 is the day-precision date on Bobby Hatfield's Wikipedia infobox, verified against Wikidata P569 (CC0, day precision, Gregorian preferred). The two sources match. Inductee identity comes from the Wikipedia Performers list, which cites RockHall.com. Year-only dates and Wikipedia↔Wikidata conflicts are dropped, not guessed. Page hooks and evidence come from the Wikipedia REST summary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
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Sources: RockHall.com (induction record) + Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0 (Performers list, Bobby Hatfield) + Wikidata CC0 (Q366869). Birth date 1940-08-10 is the Wikipedia infobox day, verified against Wikidata P569 (match).