Track Listing

1. Rubber Ball
2. More Than I Can Say
3. Take Good Care Of My Baby
4. The Night Has A Thousand Eyes
5. Stayin' In
6. Run To Him
7. How Many Tears
8. Please Don't Ask About Barbara
9. Sharing You
10. A Forever Kind Of Love
11. Bobby Tomorrow
12. What Do You Want
13. Devil Or Angel
14. Charms
15. Come Back When You Grow Up
16. My Girl / Hey Girl
17. Tears On My Pillow
18. Raining In My Heart
19. Baby Face
20. Summertime Blues
21. Oh, Boy!
22. Sweet Little Sixteen
23. Everyday
24. True Love Ways
25. It Might As Well Rain Until September
26. Will You Love Me Tomorrow
27. Poetry In Motion

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #29578 in Music
• Released on: 2008-05-12
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .20 pounds

CD Description
Though he is perhaps best known for the single 'Take Good Care Of My Baby', this collected work of 60s teen-pop sensation Bobby Vee contains many other extremely popular tunes from his hey-day. 'The Night Has A Thousand Eyes' charted at number three in the US, and 'Run To Him' at number two, and Vee had occasional links with Bob Dylan as an early touring musician. Musically indebted to the likes of Buddy Holly and Adam Faith, Vee is a prototypical teen idol whose work is neatly summarised on this release.

Customer Reviews

Rock'n'roll balladeer
Please note that there are at least two compilations with the same title (Very best of Bobby Vee). One of them has 20 tracks while another has 27 tracks. As Amazon post the same reviews on all of them, I've tried to adapt my review to reflect that.

Bobby Vee's first big break when his group (the Shadows - no connection with the similarly named British instrumental group) that had to deputize for Buddy Holly at a gig in Iowa soon after that singer was killed in a plane crash. As a result of that performance, Bobby was offered a recording contract. He failed to make an impact with his first three singles (Suzie baby, a cover of What do you want (Adam Faith) and One last kiss) but made the American charts with a cover of Devil or angel (Clovers). Bobby then had an international hit with Rubber ball. Bobby's version of Rubber ball had to compete in the UK charts with a cover by Britain's Marty Wilde, but both versions made the UK top ten.

Following the success of Rubber ball, Bobby was a regular on the charts for the next two and a half years but faded quickly as Beatle mania took over. In that period, Bobby had major international hits with Take good care of my baby (a number one American hit), The night has a thousand eyes (arguably the most popular of his songs now), Run to him, Sharing you, How many tears and More than I can say, all of which made the UK top ten. More than I can say became a UK hit again in the seventies when Leo Sayer covered it. Bobby's other hits include Devil or angel, Forever kind of love, Bobby tomorrow and Please don't ask about Barbara. All these hits and others can be found here.

After the hits dried up, Bobby paid tribute to Buddy Holly by recording several of Buddy's songs, some of which can be found here. Exactly which tracks you get will depend on which compilation you buy. You may also get covers of some other famous sixties songs.

Bobby made one more return to the charts in 1967 with Come back when you grow up, an American top ten hit that sold a million. It failed to chart in Britain but you'll find it on the 27-track compilation.

This compilation contains all the essential tracks from Bobby's early years. It omits some or all (deprending on which complation you buy) of those early failed singles and some American hits that didn't chart in Britain, but the cover versions are likely to appeal more to British buyers.

As a sample of Bobby's music this is ideal, at least from a British perspective, although you might consider buying the budget-priced triple CD, Singles collection, instead.

Worst....Best of!!
For this to claim to be the Best of Bobby Vee is just a disgrace. Without 'Walking With My Angel' and 'Letter From Betty' it falls a long way short of such a claim. Using cover versions of other artists hits is OK when all the best of the original songs are included. Whoever put this together just doesn't respect Bobby's work. Another attempt to cash in without respect for the catalogue.
Ken Charmer

Fantastic Compilation!!
This brand new compilation for the UK market compliments Bobby Vee's 3CD Singles Collection released a couple of years ago. It contains all the UK hit singles.

Two points to remember about this CD. Firstly there are the usual big hits and very rare cover versions taken from Bobby's 60's albums, like 'Will you love me tomorrow'. A number of Buddy Holly's covers appear as well which depicted Bobby's association with Buddy Holly before his tragic departure. His covers were a tribute as well as performing with 'The Crickets'. The compilar researched this well to include famous hits and a blend of unsual songs for this 'very best of ...' so you wouldn't have a collection like the 'Singles 3CD' with exactly the same tracks on.

Secondly this CD was well marketed for the wider comercial sales..hence Bobby Vee back in the UK Album Charts. It was great to see the TV advert for this CD release. I just wonder with the TV clips use showing Bobby singing to his hits could find their way on a DVD compilation some day!

The CD itself contains informative liner notes as well as a great vintage of pictures in colour.