Friday on my Mind 138: Take Good Care of My Baby: RIP Bobby Vee
Posted in Events dear boy. Events, Music, 1960s, Friday On My Mind at 19:00 on 28 October 2016
In the early 1960s it seemed that all you needed to be a successful North American male singer was to be called Bobby. Bobby Darin, Bobby Vee, Bobby Rydell all had hits then. The middle one of those, Bobby Vee, died this week.
Singer of the outrageously catchy Rubber Ball, and teen ballads like More Than I Can Say and Run to Him, the admonitory The Night has a Thousand Eyes and the yearning Take Good Care of My Baby, Vee’s star fell along with that style of recording once the Beatles came along.
Take Good Care of my Baby was a typically breezy sounding song written by Gerry Goffin and Carole King with an attendant less than breezy lyric. Note those plucked strings fixing its vintage.
Bobby Vee: Take Good Care of My Baby
Robert Thomas Velline (Bobby Vee): 30/4/1943–24/10/2016. So it goes.
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