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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Yuck. I know why I never heard of it...
Loved Devil or Angel..
Clever, but unfollowable composition.
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
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.
Here's why you shouldn't.
Dr. Ben Basey--Mickey Shorr & the Cut-Ups (1962)
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.
Scratch the Red.....just Rubber Ball.
Sad news; good entertainer and clearly a good man.RIP Bobby Vee!
"Oh Pleese! Get Me Out Of Here"
Nice ... what a contrast to what’s called singing today.
Is Bobby Vee the same as Bobby Vinton who sang Blue Velvet?
Yes.....Red Rubber Ball was The Cyrkle.
“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.
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
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.
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 !
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