Bobby Vee was one of a crop of dreamboat singers promoted by the music industry in the late 1950s and early '60s, joining Ricky Nelson, Frankie Avalon, Bobby Rydell and others on the charts. His career had a fairy-tale start. His show-business start came when he was 15 and filled in for Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and the Big Bopper after they died in a plane crash in 1959. He went on to place 38 singles in the Billboard Hot 100 from 1959 to 1970, notably "Take Good Care of My Baby," written by Carole King and Gerry Goffin, which reached No. 1 in 1961.
Two of his biggest hit songs "Rubber Ball" and "The Night Has a 1000 Eyes" along with this medley of Buddy Holly hits were recorded live as part of the Spring Break Reunion concert series in Fort Lauderdale in 1987.