This demonstrates how the media can make something out of nothing, aren't there much more looming affairs in life like surviving then an innocuous pop song? Bobby Vee appeared to me to be the most innocent of music stars of any one in history!
I was very young when I would listen to this '45rpm on the family's old tube Motorola detachable speakers Hi-_FI as a 6 year old. Time, please, come back. I think the other side was "More Than I Can Say." Memories fade.............
Back then boys got in fights over girls maybe once once in a school year. We didn't have school shootings, kids on drugs and gangs roaming the streets. We had parents who were strict and cared about their kids. We respected our parents and did what we were told. Vietnam changed everything.
Thanks for sharing this and this song was not one of Bobby's big hits. In fact, as a Bobby Vee fan and a friend of Buddy Holly's Crickets, I have never heard this song before and don't think it got very much air play on Top 40 AM radio stations at the time (if at all)!
"Stayin' In" got a lot of airplay and hit #33 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the US in early 1961. In Australia it peaked at #21 - the flip "Baby Face" was a bigger hit at #4 on the Top 40.
This demonstrates how the media can make something out of nothing, aren't there much more looming affairs in life like surviving then an innocuous pop song? Bobby Vee appeared to me to be the most innocent of music stars of any one in history!
I was very young when I would listen to this '45rpm on the family's old tube Motorola detachable speakers Hi-_FI as a 6 year old. Time, please, come back. I think the other side was "More Than I Can Say." Memories fade.............
I think it's a good thing for a boy to stand up for his girl's dignity.
Oh lighten up mate. It's just a song. Besides the "victim" of the punch got the girl in the end, so it's a moral story.
Back then boys got in fights over girls maybe once once in a school year. We didn't have school shootings, kids on drugs and gangs roaming the streets. We had parents who were strict and cared about their kids. We respected our parents and did what we were told. Vietnam changed everything.
Did anybody get on Bobby Darin's case over, "Mack the Knife"?
Hey bing Crosby and Frank Sinatra etc . also had cash payola scandals as well
Thanks for sharing this and this song was not one of Bobby's big hits. In fact, as a Bobby Vee fan and a friend of Buddy Holly's Crickets, I have never heard this song before and don't think it got very much air play on Top 40 AM radio stations at the time (if at all)!
"Stayin' In" got a lot of airplay and hit #33 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the US in early 1961. In Australia it peaked at #21 - the flip "Baby Face" was a bigger hit at #4 on the Top 40.