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Pure amusement. I guarantee this will make you smile: Did you know that when he was quite young, Bob Dylan played piano in Bobby Vee's band? Bobby Vee was from Fargo, North Dakota, raised not too far from me. In the summer of '59 he had a regional hit record out called "Suzie Baby" on a local label. His band was called The Shadows and I had hitchhiked out there and talked my way into joining his group...
Remember the old Bobby Vee song? "Like a rubber ball I'll keep bouncing back to you ..." What's old is new again and fashion trends often disappear only to return some years later. This year, high-waisted jeans have made a comeback. Six months ago you would have been hard pressed to find leading stores that stocked high waisted pants. Now, there's a number of stores carrying a diverse selection of...
These youtube videos are actual Scopitones. What's A Scopitone? It's a "Film Jukebox" invented in France in the early 1960's (from surplus World War II airplane parts!) and also the films (the precursors of todays music videos) which played on it. "Baby Face" - Bobby Vee and...... OMG LOL! "Bittersweet Samba" - Herb Alpert and the TJB (Early scopitone allegedly directed by
Your birthday today: You are frank and very outspoken and sometimes unintentionally hurt others' feelings. You are faithful, dependable, and conscientious. To those you love you are devoted and have their deep and sincere affection. Frankly, Iva Louise Zimmerman's would be a good place to start looking for outspoken companions to help you celebrate this day. If she's not available today, perhaps you...
Happy Birthday To "Spider-Man 3" actress Kirsten Dunst (1982), Jamaican musician Barrington Levy (1964), Danish film director Lars von Trier (1956), film and TV actor Perry King (1948), "Running With Scissors" actress Jill Clayburgh (1944), pop singer Bobby Vee (1943), "Rocky" actor Burt Young (1940),[...] Read more!
A pensioner has been booted out of his old folks’ flat – for playing gangsta rap music all night long at full blast. Dr Dre fan Peter Coles, 65, enraged fellow council residents – some in their 90s – by dancing around his living room until 6am. Last night he was homeless after officials sent bailiffs to the sheltered accommodation. One resident in Broadfield, West Sussex, fumed: “I don’t mind Vera...
“A long, long time ago, I can still remember howthat music used to make me smile…”That is the first line in Don McLean’s classic song American Pie. It was a wonderful tribute to 50s music, a bygone era and of course, Buddy Holly! It also seems like it was also a long, long time ago that I was one of the many writers who got his start here at JoBlo.com (Indiana Sev was my moniker for you old-schoolers...
Today is the birthday … of actor Leslie Nielsen. Lt. Frank Drebin is 82. … of Conrad Janis. Mindy's father on Mork and Mindy is 80. … of Tina Louise. Ginger, the movie star from Gilligan's Island, is 74. … of Burt Reynolds. Bandit is 72. Burt — his real name [...]
Mention the name Goffin and King to any music fan over a respectable age and you'll get immediate recognition, but have you ever stopped to think anything more about them? Lyricist Gerry Goffin was born in Brooklyn, New York on 11 February 1939, Carole three years later on 9 February 1942. They met at Queens College where Goffin was chemistry major and Carole was studying education. They married in...
I've just got a new book by Spencer Leigh about Eddie Cochran and Gene Vincent's 1960 tour of the UK. In the foreword by Bobby Vee it says "Spencer has also, subtly and masterfully, managed to reconstruct the English lifestyle setting of the period". He has and that's just one of the things that makes this book well worth reading. All too often books about music (and many other subjects) suffer from...
