I Love ❤️ Bobby and I knew him when I was in college in Fargo North Dakota. I’m Brian OBrien in North Carolina now but I’m heading back to Texas in about 3-4 months. Bobby made the music live on the Day The Music Died. God Bless Bobby Vee and all of His Family Now Always and FOREVER.
This popped up and it took about three seconds for the tears to start. What a wonderfully talented man with the kindest heart. I will always cherish the times I got to meet with him and his family and hear them sing and play. Wishing Karen and Bobby eternal peace and love without limits in the hereafter. Thank you to the kids for sharing him with us. ❤
I told Bobby vee his voice was sweeter them Budy Holly and was in Liverpool in 1963 he was a lovely man simply the best thank you Bobby 😊 from me Maureen
aww Bobby still looked like a little boy in some of the shots. He was so handsome and on shows like American Bandstand he was so cute. The expression he used to make were priceless! What a treasure he was! R.I.P. Bobby we love you and of course your music lives on! 🎵🎵
I was fortunate enough to interview Bobby Vee a number of years ago. He was, I remember, a really nice, genuine, down-to-earth type of guy who just loved talking about all of his friends in the music business. His wonderful voice will be missed, too...
This brought tears to my eyes as I watched it. Bobby is missed by so many, his music lives on, and this beautiful young girl pays tribute to her Papa. I'm thinking she'll follow in the family footsteps in the music world. Job well done, Saima.
He was great talent and human being He was a good Family Guy Bereaved it or not our lives were very similar type he was famous and I was not When I was in my teens my family and friends always said I look like him My wife Susan luved him when he came out with the song Susie baby. When me and my wife met in a skating rink in 1964 The first thing she said to me is you look like Bobby See It was luv at first sight We were together for 49yrs until her passing in 2013 Like Bobby I had a great girl I guess in a way I have to thank him I wish I could have met him in this life we were alot of like RIP Bobby with Karen
Great to see Bobby re-recording a b-side track he wrote & recorded back in 1975. I don't suppose you have the 1975 version with it's A-Side "It's Good To Be Here", to post on you tube do you please. I have never heard that version & it was never released here in the U.K.
Bobby does a great job here, but Townes Van Zandt wrote If I Needed You. The earlier version of If I Needed You has not been posted so far. Bobby did write It's Good To Be Here, and that was just uploaded recently here on RU-vid.
So sad to hear the news of Bobby Vee's passing... by all accounts he was a wonderful person in every way. Touching to hear Bob Dylan pay tribute a couple of years ago - search the video of Bob Dylan singing Suzie Baby where he calls Bobby the "most beautiful person" he'd ever shared the stage with. RIP gentle soul...
Your 100% right ! Ive got to work with Bobby on quite a few shows , and he is one of the kindest and great guys in our business . I remember working a show with him and he mentioned he had alzheimers disease when we were out to lunch prior to the show . He drove his van in from MN out to Peoria Illinois . I wanted to fly him out of Mn but he said no , ill just drive my van in . See im a promoter of oldies rock and roll shows and did a show that night with Bobby , Freddy Cannon , lou Christie , and Johnny Tillotson .We all had a great time at our after show party , and could I tell you some great stories just about the fun we all had that night, before , and after the show , till the early morning hours till we all parted We will all miss him , he is a pioneer that kept the music alive for alot of people , along with his gracious personality made everyone comfortable in his presence RIP Ken "The Legends Of Rock And Roll Concerts"
This song followed your great cover of TVZ "If I Needed You" and for a moment I thought wow! how lovely to end my night with a Harry Chapin song, and then I realized I was still listening to you and even better an original song that is out of this world good. Loved it!! It was good!
Yes, I know your thinking small town, low crime, light traffic. I've been through all those sleepy little towns and you know what, the gas prices and groceries etc. are higher because there's " NO COMPETITION "! Crime? Alcoholism and Spousal Abuse because there's nothing else to do. Give me " BRIGHT LIGHTS ans BIG CITY, at leasr as big as Syracuse, NY. Y'all come back now, sit a spell, take your " SHOES OFF " ! Ha! Ha! That's my favorite part. " LOVE THAT BOB " !
I think FRANKIE VALLI song about that night BOB, " LATE DECEMBER BACK IN '63, what a special time for me, SWEET " SURRENDER " what a night. LOVE THAT BOB !
I forgot to mention this in my last post but I have listened to what seems like different versions of "Suzie Baby." Some arrangements are different in that they are more orchestrated or start out with more orchestration (the ones on RU-vid.) But there is the other version that is not orchestrated at all - which I prefer. Was wondering about the differences and what album is Suzie Baby on WITHOUT the heavier orchestration? Were there two versions or more of that song released?
Correct Lynne Sullivan, THE IDOL (1962?) was a Desilu production/investigative documentary about the strange phenomenon of Teen Idols, and Bobby was the primary example. The orchestrated version of Suzie Baby came from that soundtrack (where presumably they didnt have the budget to license any of the original recordings, so they recorded new ones. But you're right the original SUZIE BABY from his first 1959 recording session in Minneapolis is far superior IMHO- There's a great Bob Dylan cover of it on RU-vid as well) . But the documentary followed him through a recording session in LA, and talked to him and his family in Fargo, North Dakota. It even showed a very young Carole King toiling away in her Brill Building cubicle writing BVee songs with her then husband Gerry Goffin. There's a scene of Bobby taking acting lessons from a pre-STAR TREK Leonard Nimoy and a very funny (not intentionally) interview with a Fargo newspaper man complaining about how American culture is going in the toilet due to songs like BVee's STAYIN IN - "I punched my buddy in the nose after lunch, now Im in trouble, cuz the dean saw the punch." Glorifying violent hooliganism apparently
Wow! Came upon this tonight by accident. Was listening to a duo singing this song and then I was noticing many others who have covered this song. Can't believe this is Bobby Vee --but he sounds so good singing it! I was a Bobby Vee fan (probably my first crush on a singer) when I was a little girl of about 6 or 7 years old and heard, "Rubber Ball" . I remember seeing Bobby on some TV program that my parent's were watching and I thought he was a cute boy. Then when I was a little older I bought my first LP in my life (well maybe I had my parent's buy it for me) so I could listen to "Rubber Ball" over and over and over again! I didn't have a little girl crush on Elvis - it was for BOBBY VEE! 6 or 7 YEARS OLD!
I've always absolutely " HATED " country music, always considered it old no tune ole hick stuff put out by " WHITE BIGOTS ", but Bobby, I " LOVE YOU ", and you change my whole feeling about country music and when I saw you crooning " RUN TO HIM ", on " You Tube to that beautiful Black girl sitting next to you, " LIVE ON AMERICAN BANDSTAND ", I knew that, not only were you no bigot, you were " TOTALLY COOL " and " TOTALLY BRAVE ". That was the 60's and even the Black girl looked very nervous. LOVE THAT BOB, and I " kind of " like country music too now. " YUCK " ! HA ! HA ! LOL ! CHIPPER / FRISKY !
The Vee does " Willy Nelson " ! This is " not " my kind of music, but when performed by the Vee, as Willy Nelson would say,......." YOU ARE ALWAYS ON MY MIND " ! But Bobby, how can all your Christmases be white ? You moved to " Arizona ". Take off your " RAINBOW SHADES "! Ho ! Ho ! Ho " !
I don't think Bobby has Alzheimers but rather a reaction to prescription drugs. New info has come out since his diagnosis that says that many people have been MISDIAGNOSED. For sure we're " all " getting older but it's all natural and I don't believe in " Alzheimers ", just " over medication ".
Hi Jen, well as a family member, you would know. That's just one issue that could bring on Depression. Life's naturai challenges could also trigger it, as in the old song about, " YOUNG AND BEAUTIFUL, SOMEDAY YOUR LOOKS WILL BE GONE ". When I saw Bob in that video, singing at a carnival and holding up a young picture of himself, " I " felt for him. That's just one example, there could be others, and I just wanted to offer a more " easily treatable alternative " to Alzheimers.
Alex Frazier I think there is hope in holistic approaches to dealing with aging, my wife is having a little struggle with day to day memory problems, but I find if I just let her do what she loves doing and keep things familiar most days she seems to get by pretty good and still cooks up great meals, God I love her and I'll do what it takes to keep her life as normal as possible for as long as I can.
