Once asked in a newspaper interview to describe himself in two words his answer was: “happily unable to follow instructions…”

Discography (partial) as performer/producer/writer
20 Songs/20 Years (the Bobs)	PAC	2003
Low? Bottom Me?	PAC	2003
Coaster (the Bobs)	Rounder	2000
Cosmic Grooves: Gemini	Rhino	2001
Stolen Roses - Songs of the Grateful Dead	Arista	2000
The Best of the Hoodoo Rhythm Devils	Gazebertz Records	2001
i brow club (the Bobs)	Rounder	1997
Too Many Santas (the Bobs)	Rounder	1996
Plugged (the Bobs)	Rounder	1995
The Bobs Cover the Songs of	Rounder	1994
Shut Up and Sing (the Bobs)	Rounder	1993
Reviews (Klaus Koenig)	Enja	1998
Brontosaurus - Da Vinci's Notebook	DVN	2003
Mike Fanning - Da Vinci's Notebook	DVN	2001
The Bobs Sing the Songs of	Rhino	1991
Songs for Tomorrow Morning	Rhino	1988
My, I'm Large	Rhino	1987
The Bobs	Rhino	1984
Ants in my Pants - Gunnar Madsen	G spot	2002
Old Mr Mackelhackle - Gunnar Madsen	G spot	1999
Toxic Audio	Toxic Audio	1999
The Pointer Sisters	Blue Thumb	1973

Richard Bob Greene is an award-winning composer, arranger, singer, writer, engineer/producer and educator. As the co-founder and creator of the nu-wave a Cappella super group The Bobs, Greene “fractured and reconstructed the rules For vocal music,” and is one of the foremost pioneers of contemporary a cappella.
Richard was nominated for a Grammy for his and Gunnar Madsen's a cappella arrangement of the Beatles "Helter Skelter". His Bobs songs and arrangements are considered standards, sung by hundreds of groups around the world. He is the recipient of multiple songwriters’ awards from ASCAP and the CARAs (the contemporary a cappella recording awards.) As a composer and librettist, Greene has received commissions from Lincoln Center, The Los Angeles Theater Center, the Minnesota Opera, the Goethe Institute, Oberlin Dance Collective, ISO Dance Theater, National Public Radio and many others. He has written music for the feature films "Breaking the Rules" "For Better or Worse" and "Man in the Moon" (the Andy Kaufman bio-pic) He was a vocal arranger for the 1995 Emmy Awards starring Jason Alexander. His compositions have appeared on network television, PBS, comedy central and HBO. He has been a regular musical commentator for NPR’s “Morning Edition” His work with ISO and the Bobs is in the permanent collection of the Smithsonian Institution.
Richard has produced CDs for many other vocal and instrumental groups including Throat Culture, Toxic Audio and two for Da Vinci's Notebook.
Richard was the founder of the Recording Arts Program at Los Medanos College in Pittsburg and has taught or conducted workshops at the prestigious Omega Institute, Jazz Camp West, the Salt Lake A Cappella Workshop, and Harvard University, among others. He is the producer/director for a series of instructional videos for the A Cappella Foundation.