Bobby Rydell was one of those seemingly never ending succession of singers named Bobby (others include Bobbies Vee and Darin) who materialised out of the US at the back end of the 1950s into the 1960s.) I think it’s fair to say his style was that of the popular entertainer.

Sadly he died last week.

I chose to feature this one of his songs because it was one of my elder brother’s records and so familiar to me from my youth. Also because I quite like the Latin style swing it has. It was written as ¿Quién será? by Mexican composers Luis Demetrio and Pablo Beltrán Ruiz.

Bobby Rydell: Sway

Roberto Louis (Bobby) Ridarelli: 26/4/1942 – 5/4/2022. So it goes.

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.