Bobby Vee died ?

Bobby Vee, the Sixties adolescent symbol who had Hot 100 hits with "Take Good Care of My Baby," "Hurried to Him" and "Elastic Ball," kicked the bucket Monday taking after a five-year session with Alzheimer's illness. He was 73.

Vee's child Jeff Velline affirmed the vocalist's demise to The Associated Press, including that his dad achieved "the end of a long hard street" and kicked the bucket gently encompassed by family at a hospice office in Rogers, Minnesota.

Conceived Robert Velline in Fargo, North Dakota, Vee's vocation removed the after a long time "the Music Died": Following the plane crash that killed Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and the Big Bopper – who were en route to a show in Moorhead, Minnesota on February third, 1959 – the 15-year-old Vee and his band the Shadows were among the neighborhood demonstrations enlisted to supplant the stone legends on the bill.

In spite of the pitiful conditions, the Shadows' gig was viewed as a win, with Vee calling the Moorhead indicate "the begin of a brilliant profession."

Vee and the Shadows soon recorded a provincial hit with "Suzie Baby," which brought about Vee marking a record manage Liberty Records. Minnesota local Bob Dylan, who called Vee in 2013 "the most important individual I've ever been in front of an audience with," would later cover "Suzie Baby" in show.

Dylan, who played in the Shadows with Vee in 1959, likewise commended the vocalist in his Chronicles, Volume One. Vee "had a metallic, tense tone to his voice and it was as musical as a silver chime," Dylan composed. "I'd generally considered him a sibling." Dylan quickly joined Vee's supporting band as a piano player after Vee's sibling brought Dylan, who called himself "Elston Gunnn," in for a tryout. "He was an entertaining minimal wiry sort of fellow and he shook quite great," Vee said.

With Liberty Records, Vee commenced a string of 38 Hot 100 hits, including his initial two Top 10 singles in 1960, "Villain or Angel" and "Elastic Ball," which had a front of Holly's "Ordinary" as its B-side; Vee would later perform with Holly's supporting band the Crickets in Paul McCartney-curated tributes to the late vocalist.

"There are such a variety of synchronicities to the Buddy Holly association that spread out everywhere on my profession," Vee told the Star Tribute at the time. "That has been completely pleasant, on the grounds that I was and still am such a fan."

The next year, Vee scored his first Number One hit with "Take Good Care of My Baby," a Gerry Goffin and Carole King-penned great that was later secured by the Beatles when they tried out for Decca Records in 1961.

Vee would later have hits with "The Night Has a Thousand Eyes" and his last Top 10 record, "Return When You Grow Up." Although the hits went away before the end of the Sixties, Vee kept on visiting and work on music for the duration of his life, recording more than 25 collections before his determination with early-onset Alzheimer's. Vee last performed at his own retirement appear in 2011, not long after he was analyzed.