50 years ago Bobby Vee Exits With A Motown Song

[Boogiedown]

Through the sixties Bobby Vee maintained a successful chart presence returning to the Billboard Pop Top Forty eleven times.

He is probably best known for:



His only #1 [[three weeks)

[Boogiedown]

or for:



#6 in 1960

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or from this #3 charter in1967:

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He last broke the Billboard Top Forty exactly fifty years ago May 1968 with this medley:



peaking at #35.

[marv2]

He last broke the Billboard Top Forty exactly fifty years ago May 1968 with this medley:



peaking at #35.

I never knew he recorded "My Girl" Rest in peace Bobby

[mysterysinger]

Nice to see a thread about Bobby Vee - I love his music [[well much of it at any rate). Very good and memorable pop hits. Also seen him live a few times and he would put on a great show. Not a Motown song, Bobby also recorded a version of "Do What You Gotta Do" which is probably my top fave Four Tops record. Bobby's version isn't a patch on that - but for me no one does it like The Tops anyway.

[Boogiedown]

Nice to see a thread about Bobby Vee - I love his music [[well much of it at any rate). Very good and memorable pop hits. Also seen him live a few times and he would put on a great show. Not a Motown song, Bobby also recorded a version of "Do What You Gotta Do" which is probably my top fave Four Tops record. Bobby's version isn't a patch on that - but for me no one does it like The Tops anyway.

Bobby Vee will historically be one of pop music's lighter footnotes , but he made his mark . It's interesting to listen to different artists like him from the era to hear their takes on Motown creations. Bobby did several Motown covers , but only the MY GIRL medley brought him chart success.

DO WHAT YOU GOTTA DO was also released as a single and was the title to his 1968 LP which contained this, another medley :

[Circa 1824]

I triple dig Bobby Vee. Didn't he also sing The Night Has a Thousand Eyes?

[Boogiedown]

I triple dig Bobby Vee. Didn't he also sing The Night Has a Thousand Eyes?

Yep !!! That was a biggie!

Check this - oh those crazy sixties!!

[Circa 1824]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7r4Pq_oJhk

[[I don't know how to post the video.)

The white girl on Bobby's right died in a car accident soon after the taping.

[Boogiedown]

oh wow.

[TomatoTom123]

Bobby Vee will historically be one of pop music's lighter footnotes , but he made his mark . It's interesting to listen to different artists like him from the era to hear their takes on Motown creations. Bobby did several Motown covers , but only the MY GIRL medley brought him chart success.

DO WHAT YOU GOTTA DO was also released as a single and was the title to his 1968 LP which contained this, another medley :

Oh damn, I actually quite like that. For some reason my mind was opposed to the idea of liking Bobby Vee, damnit, lol

On that album it seems he was in a very Motown mood as most of the tracks are Motown covers!!! He even did "Can You Love A Poor Boy"! And they all sound pretty good

[TomatoTom123]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7r4Pq_oJhk

[[I don't know how to post the video.)

The white girl on Bobby's right died in a car accident soon after the taping.

Circa you copy the link [[as you have done) into your post, then write VIDEO in square brackets, like [this], before the link, then /VIDEO in square brackets after the link, like [/this].

So it would be like this...

[THIS]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7r4Pq_oJhk[/THIS]

...only with VIDEO replacing the word THIS

Hope that helps!!!!

[lockhartgary]

To add to TomatoTom123's instructions:

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I never knew he recorded "My Girl" Rest in peace Bobby

This is the best singing he's ever done [[especially on the "Hey Girl" portion). Too bad he didn't sing that way on ALL his songs. I'd rather he'd have sung that Soulful on "The Night Has 1,000 Eyes. Too bad that's one of the few King-Goffin songs before they went commercial after Screen Gems-Colpix gave them to The Monkees, that were not sung by Soul-tinted Soul/Pop groups and single artists like The Drifters, Freddie Scott, Cookies, Darlene McRea, Ramona King. The same is true of "I Can't Stay Mad at You".