Bobby Vee

Bobby Vee started as a musician and singer at an early age and at the age of 15, due to a tragic twist of fate, Bobby's story took on a bittersweet flavor on February 3, 1959. A light plane carrying Buddy Holly, Richie Valens, The Big Bopper, and a 20-year-old pilot, Roger Peterson, crashed in a snow-covered Iowa field killing everyone on board.  The Winter Dance Party tour continued the next night with a 15-year-old named Bobby Vee filling in for Buddy Holly.

In the following 30-plus years, Bobby would go on to place 38 songs on the Billboard top charts including "Take Good Care Of My Baby", "The Night Has A Thousand Eyes", "Devil or Angel", "Run To Him", "Rubber Ball", "Please Don't Ask About Barbara" and many others.

Bobby went on to become an international star. By 1963 he had collected seven Top Ten Hits in England, as well as a top album called "Bobby Vee Meets The Crickets," and he shared the charts for forty weeks side by side with the Crickets. He has recorded over 25 albums and Billboard Magazine called him "one of the top ten most consistent chart makers ever".

He has been named The Beat Goes On Magazine's "Best American Act", "Best Live Performer", and "Favorite Male Singer".  And in 1994 he was runner-up to Paul McCartney in the category of "Most Accomplished Performer".  Bobby, now 67 years old, is still a top touring artist in Great Britain, Japan, Europe and Australia, and you will see why when he and his band take the stage at the Evening Program of the Bakersfield Business Conference.