Bobby Vee Was The Sixties Pop Idol

Minneapolis - pop idol Bobby Vee, singer of the 1960s teen whose career began when took a midwestern scene as a teenager to fill after the plane crash that killed 1959 rock n roll stars Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and JP The Big Bopper Richardson has died. He was 73. Vee the results it includes tables take care of my baby and that helped a young Bob Dylan its creation, died Monday of advanced disease of Alzheimer's disease, his son, Jeff Velline said. Vee was diagnosed.

Alzheimer's disease in 2011 and performed his last show this year. Vee was in the custody of the memory in the Well stead of Rogers and Rogers Diamond crest, about 25 miles Minneapolis, in the last 13 months. And palliative care in recent weeks his son said.

Vee passed away peacefully surrounded by his family, Velline said. Calling it the end of a long and difficult

road. He said his father was a person who brings joy to everyone. It was his job.  Born Robert Velline in Fargo, N. D. Vee was only 15 when he took the stage in Moorhead, Minn.  After February 3, 1959, a plane crash in Iowa that killed Holly, Valens and Richardson on the way to the concert. 

That dark day in the history of rock was commemorated by singer-songwriter Don McLean in his song pop 1972 American Pie as the day the music died.

The appeal was launched for local acts to replace Holly on her show scheduled at the National Guard Moorhead Arsenal. Vee and 2 weeks volunteering band emcee of the show. Charlie Boone, a disc jockey in KFGO Radio turned to Vee and asked the name of his group. Vee watched the shadows of his acolytes on the floor and said, Shadows.

I was not afraid at that time, Vee recalled in an interview in 1999 with The Associated Press. The afraid I did not know until the projector was turned on, then I am sorry for him. I did not think I would like to be able to sing. If he opened his mouth. He did not know anything would come out.

Vee called his debut a milestone in his life and the beginning of a great career. Within months the young singer and shadows. Which included his older brother Bill on guitar Suzie recorded. Vee discount Soma Records in Minneapolis. It was a regional hit, and soon signed Vee with Liberty Records.

He continued to record 38,100 results from 1959 to 1970, to reach the top of the charts in 1961 with the Carole King-Gerry Goffin song take good care of my baby and reaching No 2 followed Run to The Other findings include. Vee Rubber Ball the night has a thousand eyes devil or angel back.

 When Grow Up, please do not ask about Barbara and punish. In addition to his clear voice ringing Vee was also a skilled guitarist and occasional songwriter. He accumulated six gold singles but saw a decrease in their success with the British invasion of the Beatles and other groups in the mid-1960s.

Vee continued recording in the 2000s, and the timing of the tour is kept constant. But he began to have trouble remembering when letters procedure, and was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease in 2011. He did his last show this year during an annual fundraising community that your family stays close to his home in San Jose, Minn., about 65 miles northwest of Minneapolis. He has not announced his diagnosis until a year later on its website.

In an interview in 2013 with The Associated Press, Vee said he knew that his skills were in decline and would not put his family through a public decline. It does not improve, Vee said. But I'm doing my best.

Vee being released a new album, Adobe sessions, a recorded session improvisation loose with family members in the garage adobe north of Tucson, Arizona Vee. The album in 2014 presented some of the favorite songs of Townes Van Zandt Vee, Gordon Lightfoot and Ricky Nelson. He was released the 55th anniversary of the plane crash of Holly.

The album also included the cover of Bob Dylan Man in me, a nod to the legend who started his career in the band Vee in Fargo.

Dylan grew up in Hibbing, a town on the Iron Range in northern Minnesota, and briefly played with the group Vee. Despite his time playing together was short, Dylan has had a lasting effect on the race Vee: It was Dylan, he goes by the name Elston Gunn when he played piano in concerts some shade, suggesting Vee Vee change their name.

In his Chronicles: Volume One memoirs, Dylan recalled that Vee. He had a metal; the nervous tone of his voice was as musical as a silver bell. When Dylan performed in St. Paul in 2013, hailed Vee Suzie led the audience and the baby.

Vee and his wife, Karen, were married for over 50 years. She died of kidney failure in 2015 at age 71. The couple had four children.

Family members said Vee memory was not affected his speech to Alzheimer's disease. During the interview with the AP in 2013. He answered the questions, but become tongue-tied finding the right word. Vee tried unconventional methods to relieve symptoms of chiropractor visits to acupuncture, and also renewed his passion for painting.

And although sometimes wished I could do the things that used to be easy, Vee said he was not going to cry about it.

God brought me back home, he said. And that's the case.