Bobby Vee

Bobby Vee was a 16-year-old kid who filled in for Buddy at the next gig in Moorhead, Minn.

The Eternal Teenager in Love Steve Dougherty 2012

Their songs were recorded by the Drifters, the Shirelles and Bobby Vee.

Don Kirshner, Music Impresario and TV Producer, Dies at 76 2011

He had been in the audience for one or two of the Winter Dance Party shows and now he was on the stage with Bobby Vee, standing in for Buddy Holly.

The Eternal Teenager in Love Steve Dougherty 2012

When Bob Dylan broke big, Bobby Vee told me that his piano player that night was Dylan, who was 18 and still known as Bob Zimmerman.

The Eternal Teenager in Love Steve Dougherty 2012

REBECCA ROBERTS, host: Carole King started writing songs young and found solid success writing songs for artists like Bobby Vee and Dusty Springfield and The Shirelles and Aretha Franklin.

Rocky Mountain Activist Carole King 2009

Anyway... back to Bobby Vee, men in shorts, and women with scissor legs.

Now, hop on your motor scooter, go to the beach, and dance. Ann Althouse 2008

Luckily the original songs were pretty good, and resonated with a young audience that was really tired of Bobby Vee and The Shirelles.

Steve Anderson: The Beatles Changed Everything 2008

They sustain me now in the winter of my career, a time when my beloved Broadway is practically unrecognizable to me, a husk of its former self, desperate and afraid, like Bobby Vee doing the "Woods are burning" scene from "Salesman."

Bill Barol: A Top 40 Life in The Theater 2008

The highlight of the three-day event is the return of Bobby Vee to Mayville.

Mayville, N.D., Marks 125 Years with Fargo Native, Bobby Vee 2006

It was my first exposure to how the Internet could bring previously distant or unapproachable celebrities within one's virtual reach; in other AOL news forums at that time, it was not uncommon to find the likes of Bobby Vee, Roger McGuinn and David Crosby holding court.

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