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Bobby Vee: 1960s pop singer dies at the age of 73
BBC ^ | 10/24/16

Posted on 10/24/2016 9:35:53 AM PDT by sparklite2

Bobby Vee, best known for hits including Rubber Ball and Take Good Care of my Baby, has died at the age of 73.

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To: sparklite2
One Last Kiss (1960)
21 posted on 10/24/2016 10:06:23 AM PDT by Fiji Hill
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To: Fiji Hill

Yuck. I know why I never heard of it...


22 posted on 10/24/2016 10:07:27 AM PDT by sparklite2 (I'm less interested in the rights I have than the liberties I can take.)
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To: Steely Tom
Last #1 song before Elvis Presley hit the airwaves: The Poor People of Paris, by Les Baxter. You may not recognize the name of the song, but (if you are a first-half Baby Boomer) I think you will recognize the melody.


23 posted on 10/24/2016 10:10:21 AM PDT by Sans-Culotte (Time to get the US out of the UN and the UN out of the US.)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

Loved Devil or Angel..


24 posted on 10/24/2016 10:11:03 AM PDT by nikos1121 (I am way more deplorable than you.)
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To: Fiji Hill
Now I know why I never heard of that.

Clever, but unfollowable composition.

25 posted on 10/24/2016 10:11:09 AM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but they're true ... and it pisses people off.)
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To: Darnright

I’d say it was both of our generation, and I’m a pre-boomer.
Another product of the Smothers Brothers was Murray Roman,
whose album “You can’t beat people up and have them say, I love you,” was a ground-breaking comedy album I listened to over and over and over. Still love it, dated as it is.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aROfcIex1PA


26 posted on 10/24/2016 10:13:51 AM PDT by sparklite2 (I'm less interested in the rights I have than the liberties I can take.)
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To: SkyDancer
Just for you
27 posted on 10/24/2016 10:14:55 AM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but they're true ... and it pisses people off.)
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To: Steely Tom
You may not recognize the name of the song, but (if you are a first-half Baby Boomer) I think you will recognize the melody.

I'm a boomer who grew up in the Northeast...meaning I had never even heard of "country music" while growing up,except for the few crossover hits."I Fall To Pieces" and "Sixteen Tons" for example.

I may be unusual but I love the pop/rock stuff that came out between '55 and '70 (including the British Invasion) *and* the stuff my parents used to listen to.Percy Faith...the Mills Brothers..."Theme From The Apartment" being just three of many examples I can cite.

Bobby Vee was certainly an important part of that scene.

28 posted on 10/24/2016 10:20:38 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Deplorables' Lives Matter)
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To: sparklite2
Please Don't Ask About Barbara (1962)

Here's why you shouldn't.

Dr. Ben Basey--Mickey Shorr & the Cut-Ups (1962)

29 posted on 10/24/2016 10:21:02 AM PDT by Fiji Hill
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To: sparklite2

My late mother (1926-2011) was no fan of music from
the 60s but in later life she admitted she enjoyed
BV songs like Red Rubber Ball and others.


30 posted on 10/24/2016 10:21:39 AM PDT by Sivad (NorCal red turf.)
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To: Sivad

Scratch the Red.....just Rubber Ball.


31 posted on 10/24/2016 10:23:31 AM PDT by Sivad (NorCal red turf.)
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To: sparklite2

Sad news; good entertainer and clearly a good man.RIP Bobby Vee!


32 posted on 10/24/2016 10:24:04 AM PDT by jmaroneps37 (Conservatism is truth. Liberalism is lies.)
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To: knarf
Everyone 'cept this girl.

"Oh Pleese! Get Me Out Of Here"

beatlemania lives on in iconic photographs 640 3

33 posted on 10/24/2016 10:26:56 AM PDT by SkyDancer (Ambtion Without Talent Is Sad - Talent Without Ambition Is Worse)
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To: knarf

Nice ... what a contrast to what’s called singing today.


34 posted on 10/24/2016 10:29:24 AM PDT by SkyDancer (Ambtion Without Talent Is Sad - Talent Without Ambition Is Worse)
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To: sparklite2

Is Bobby Vee the same as Bobby Vinton who sang Blue Velvet?


35 posted on 10/24/2016 10:31:54 AM PDT by circlecity
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To: Sivad

Yes.....Red Rubber Ball was The Cyrkle.


36 posted on 10/24/2016 10:32:16 AM PDT by originalbuckeye ("In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act." - George Orwell)
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To: Steely Tom

“The Poor People of Paris” - quite a lot of history there, thanks to the internet.

“Les pauvres gens de Paris” was thought to be the original French title, about happy Parisians who didn’t let poverty interfere with love, as released by Les Baxter in 1956.

Edith Piaf, France’s national symbol & crooner, had recorded “La Goualante de Pauvre Jean” in 1940 and the rendition is on youtube. It’s a ballad about a con man who tried & failed to find love; the refrain is “Without love, we are nothing”. She is introduced by Maurice Chevalier.

Uncanny...if the short subject was filmed in 1940, was that before or after the Germans occupied Paris? After liberation, Edith Piaf had some ‘splainin’ to do as to whether she collaborated with the Nazis (turned out she worked undercover for Le Resistance, and was exonerated).

Les Baxter’s instrumental version sounds repetitive, but the sung original tells a story.


37 posted on 10/24/2016 10:34:14 AM PDT by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam. Buy ammo.")
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To: knarf

First record I ever back-cued and slip-started on green-felt 16-inch Gates turntable with a nickel on the tonearm at a station the power of a three-way light bulb but heard by every girl I knew at school:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssCLB6Y8zjA

My voice cracked during the intro.

R2z


38 posted on 10/24/2016 10:36:05 AM PDT by Resettozero
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To: circlecity

No. Two different singers.

My fave;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJBcNmQUCXw

Bobby Vee - Come Back When You Grow Up Girl

I thought for sure that Gerry Rafferty ( “Baker Street”, “Right Down the Line”, and “Stuck in the Middle with You” did a cover of that song but he apparently didn’t. Would have been awesome.


39 posted on 10/24/2016 10:38:09 AM PDT by Hillarys Gate Cult
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To: SkyDancer
It was strictly an American era.

We were young, educated by a public school system that really tried to educate us, and the Rock & Roll/Rhythm and Blues music was bustin' at the seams.

We dug it, ate it up and bought it.

If drugs had never hit the scene, who KNOWS what brilliance may have been accomplished by so MANY kids willing to put themselves OUT there to be heard .. to be recognized.

The 20 post WW2 years belonged to The USA !

40 posted on 10/24/2016 10:39:02 AM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but they're true ... and it pisses people off.)
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