Bobby Vee RIP

Nadou

Singer of some great, unpretentious pop songs like Rubber Ball, Take Good Care of My Baby, The Night Has A Thousand Eyes. He had suffered from Alzheimers for a while. A short while back Bob Dylan - whose first professional engagement was playing piano in Vee's band for a few weeks - sang Susie Baby in tribute to him at a show where Vee was in the audience.

Henry Irving

RIP

MuttleyCAFC

RIP - genuine legend

Algarveaddick

RIP. Made some good pop songs.

stonemuse

RIP, seems to be never ending this year with celebs

Addick Addict

RIP

DA9

Hero of mine, gutted, RIP Bobby

WSS

Wife and father in law danced to Take Good Care Of My Baby after our first dance last year.

RIP.

Lincsaddick

Terrific singer from the age of innocence ... RIP

Fanny Fanackapan

One of the first records I bought was Rubber Ball.

Another sad day .

Sleep tight, Bobby.

Bedsaddick

RIP

Nadou

I met him at a gig in Tunbridge Wells when he was playing in a double bill with The Crickets who were great friends and colleagues of his and he had famously taken over on the 1959 Winter Party Tour after Buddy Holly was killed. He was modest and charming and still singing superbly. He signed a cassette for me and did me the honour of singing my request, Staying In, which had the hilarious couplet and outrageous rhyme of:
"He was saying things that were not true about her
So I let him have it in the cafeteria"!

soapy_jones

RIP

Welly

RIP

McBobbin

RIP I thought he'd be a lot older, but he started out when he was 15 in 1959. I grew up on his music

HantsAddick

Another horrible disease and a merciful release for him. R.I.P. Bobby

thai malaysia addick

I used to do my own Top 10 each week when I was about 9 or 10 years old. The night has a thousand eyes was one of my number ones if I remember correctly.

Thanks, Bobby. RIP.

Brendan_O_Connell

RIP

willieduff

Yet another legend has passed away this year. RIP Bobby.

Jensenwasclass

RIP Bobby. Great tracks like More than I can say, Please don't ask about Barbara
and How many Tears, Take good care of my baby.
Could go on and on, a truly great artist!

LenGlover

Another soundtrack of my youth gone.

RIP

Lincsaddick

https://youtu.be/z5jrqe8ryJ8

Lincsaddick

https://youtu.be/EuJbHYvR7EQ

uie2

RIP

Johnnysummers5

RIP

SoundAsa£

One of the first records I bought....Rubber Ball.....oh what memories.
Played it a thousand times sitting in Mum and Dads lounge in Catford, on my light blue Dansette!
I was 13.
RIP BOBBY......RIP.

Lincsaddick

I always assumed that 'Rubber Ball' was a Goffin/King composition .. in fact it was written by the late & great Gene Pitney