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Robert Thomas Velline (April 30, 1943 – October 24, 2016), known professionally as Bobby Vee, was an American singer who was a teen idol in the early 1960s and also appeared in films. [1] According to Billboard magazine, he had thirty-eight Hot 100 chart hits, ten of which reached the Top 20.
Despite the tragedy, the "Winter Dance Party" tour continued. Fifteen-year-old Bobby Vee was given the task of filling in for Holly at the next scheduled performance in Moorhead, in part because he "knew all the words to all the songs." [27] Jennings and Allsup carried on for two more weeks, with Jennings taking Holly's place as lead singer. [28]
Pop singer Bobby Vee, whose string of hits included 'Rubber Ball' and 'Devil or Angel,' died Monday, the St. Cloud, Minnesota, Times reported.
Bobby Vee was an American pop music singer whose prominence in the music industry arose from tragedy. After Holly, Ritchie Valens and The Big Bopper were killed in a plane crash on February 3, 1959, a then-teenaged Vee was one of a group of local musicians recruited to play at the next leg of a scheduled concert in Fargo, North Dakota. [4]
Bobby Vee Sings Your Favorites is the debut album by American Singer Bobby Vee, released in May 1960 by Liberty Records. [2]It features his 1st big hit Devil or Angel, and a mirror hit "Since I Met You Baby", They peaked at Nos. 6, and 81, respectively, on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart in the United States.
I Remember Bobby Holly is the eleventh studio album by American singer, Bobby Vee, [1] and was released in December 1963 by Liberty Records. [1] Ernie Freeman arranged the album, while Snuff Garrett produced it. It is a tribute album to the songs of Rock and roll and Rockabilly singer Buddy Holly, whom Vee listed among his
30 Big Hits of the 60's is a studio album by American singer Bobby Vee, and was released in August 1964 by Liberty Records. [2]it contains hits from the 1960s by other artist with this album, [3] among the 30 tracks with combained with 5 songs are several, Beatles, Searchers and Frank Ifield song, and it including "Moon River", "P.S.
They backed the Everly Brothers for a time, and recorded with Bobby Vee in the early ’60s. Original bassist Joe B. Mauldin continued on with the Crickets through his death in 2015. The following ...