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Bobby Vee - Greatest Hits

Bobby Vee
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His career launched as a fill-in for the recently deceased Buddy Holly, Bobby Vee scored several pop hits during the early '60s, that notorious period of popular music sandwiched between the birth of rock & roll and the rise of the British Invasion. Though a few of his singles -- "Rubber Ball," for one -- were as innocuous as anything else from the era, Vee had a knack for infectious Brill… Read more in Amazon's Bobby Vee Store

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  • Audio CD (March 8, 1994)
  • Original Release Date: March 8, 1994
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Label: Curb Records
  • ASIN: B000000D8G
  • Also Available in: Audio Cassette
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.com Sales Rank: #152,371 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

 
1. Take Good Care of My Baby
2. Run to Him
3. Come Back When You Grow Up
4. Night Has a Thousand Eyes
5. Devil or Angel
6. Rubber Ball
7. Sharing You
8. Beautiful People
9. Stayin' In
10. Be True to Yourself

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18 of 18 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars There's Are 2 Better Bobby Vee Titles Available From Amazon, June 23, 2003
Typical of most CDs on the Curb label, this is terribly limited in number of selections and poor in its choice of them. It's missing the single that brought Bobby to Liberty's attention after he took Buddy Holly's place on the Winter Dance Party tour after the tragic plane crash. "Suzie Baby," an example of Vee's best Holly-like work, was actually thought by some to be Buddy. A much better choice is "The Essential and Collectibel Bobby Vee," a 2-CD, 50-song import with "Suzie Baby," a top 100 hit in the US, all his American and British hits (from "More Than I Can Say" [#4 in the UK, #61 US], "Take Good Care of My Baby," "The Night Has A Thousand Eyes," [both Top 10 hits in the UK and US], "Please Don't Ask About Barbara" and "My Girl/Hey Girl," his last US chart hit [#35]. Besides the hits that are missing from the Curb compilation, "Essential and Collectible" includes some buried treasure. "A Forever Kind of Love" reached #13 in the UK but was inexplicable unreleased here. "It Might As Well Rain Until September," a cover of Carol King's early hit has echoes of "Take Good Care of My Baby," both Goffin/King compositons. Perhaps my favorite remastered "discoveries" is a Nashville produced cover of Well...Alright" that has a driving beat, 180 degrees out from Buddy's acoustic version, but as valid as Santana's or Blind Faith's renditions. If you're not quite ready for a 50-selection CD of Bobby Vee, try "The Essential Bobby Vee," another import, a budget price collection from EMI that features 20 tracks with virtually everything on the anemic Curb CD, plus "Someday," a pairing of Bobby with the Crickets that intentionally has a bit of "That'll Be The Day" in it. Bobby says he never imitated Buddy; he just sounds a little like him naturally, something he doesn't mind at all, since he admired him greatly. I think these wonderful two albums will make that perfectly clear.
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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A TRUE FIVE STAR CD, May 2, 2000
By "charleshasbrouck" (Lakeland, Florida USA) - See all my reviews
Some of us experienced Bobby Vee's music as among the first pop/rock material we were exposed to.Songs like The Night Has a Thousand Eyes,Take Good Care of Her and Rubber Ball helped to carve a profile of my musical tastes in the early 60's and also led me to a nearly 30 year career in radio. How good those songs sounded on those antiquated AM car radios of the time....and how splendid they sound in today's modern CD players. We knew the Bobby Vee beat,the tremendous pop orchestration of the time and the lyrical innocence of the time were priceless.Little did we know how sensational those meories would sound today.
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Several true "grinders" and genuine 60's sound., January 2, 1999
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I purchased (or obtained somehow) the vinyl grand-daddy of this CD back when Bobby was popular. His likeness to Buddy Holly was somewhat uncanny. I, too, at times could also sound very much like Holly in my younger years. Both artists possessed the ability to do the uh-oh type change of notes which was popular at the time. Since our modern technology more or less prohibits the quality playing of the 45's and 33's, I don't often hear these great sounds from my hey-day.
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5.0 out of 5 stars remember the warmth
These songs came from the time when I first began to really listen to music. Of course I had heard music and enjoyed it, but that was on my parents radio, and they chose the... Read more
Published 12 months ago by Emmit W. Stewart

5.0 out of 5 stars fine budget priced album
Bobby Vee's fans will probably want this in their collections; but in truth this rather short, budget priced CD is better suited to the more casual fan. Read more
Published on January 4, 2008 by Matthew G. Sherwin

4.0 out of 5 stars Nice collection of great songs
Original recordings (at least to my ear), nicely engineered and remastered. A nice collection of great songs.
Published on July 24, 2001

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