Re: Bye, Bye American Pie...Hello East Orange

1999-02-03 Thread lance davis
Anyway, I read something interesting about the infamous Winter Dance Tour yesterday: it continued on without the three dead headliners, substituting Holly-wannabe Bobby Vee as the star! Some things never change about the music industry... Hey, isn't this the same Bobby Vee that hired a young

Re: Bye, Bye American Pie...Hello East Orange

1999-02-03 Thread Ph. Barnard
Lance: Hey, isn't this the same Bobby Vee that hired a young piano player named Bobby Dylan within a couple years after this gig?? Of course, he didn't last that long with the band ("creative differences" is what the papers reported), but it does remind me of what Woody Guthrie supposedly

Re: Bye, Bye American Pie...Hello East Orange

1999-02-03 Thread Ameritwang
Lance wrote: Hey, isn't this the same Bobby Vee that hired a young piano player named Bobby Dylan within a couple years after this gig?? I believe this is true. I just heard Bobby Vee on "Fresh Air" the other day. He made mention that Bob went by yet another pseudonym...I didn't really catch

Re: Bye, Bye American Pie...Hello East Orange

1999-02-03 Thread Barry Mazor
Bobby Vee not only filled in, but later did a Hooly tribute album and an album with the Crickets, both readily available. Hey, isn't this the same Bobby Vee that hired a young piano player named Bobby Dylan within a couple years after this gig?? Definitely true. Also--young Boby Z. was at the

Re: Bye, Bye American Pie...Hello East Orange

1999-02-03 Thread Will Miner
On Wed, 3 Feb 1999, Ph. Barnard wrote: Ever since then she's been walking around the house doing imitation Dylan renderings of songs by the groups she listens to: Spice Girls, Shania, N' Sync, etc. It's pretty funny to hear a 10 year-old do a Dylan version of "Any man of *mine*