
Bobby Vee – Somewhere Down the Line
Bobby Vee and the Vees BOBBY VEE SOMEWHERE DOWN THE LINE BY RONALD SKLAR Rock and roll is cram-packed with ironic stories. Read the bio of almost any artist and you’ll find the woulda-coulda-shoulda tale of how he almost became an accountant. And prefacing almost every Top 10 hit is the tiresome fable of how the song nearly wound up in the garbage until some DJ in Peoria played it by accident. Bobby Vee’s story, however, is the mother of all rock and roll ironies and yet it’s