Tyler Michaels was eager to bounce back into the role of 1960s teen idol Bobby Vee. Twin Cities actor Michaels — who is known for musical theater roles as varied as the Eliza Doolittle-besotted Freddy ...

Sixty years ago this morning, 15-year-old Fargoan Robert Velline went to school with a ticket in his hand for that night’s Winter Dance Party concert featuring his idol, Buddy Holly, as well as ...

MINNEAPOLIS -- Pop idol Bobby Vee, the boyish, grinning 1960s singer whose career was born when he took a Midwestern stage as a teenager to fill in after the 1959 plane crash that killed rock 'n' roll ...

ST. JOSEPH, Minn. — Bobby Vee still has the infectious smile, bright eyes and boyish good looks of his 1960s pop idol days, when he scored such hits as "Take Good Care of My Baby," "Rubber Ball" and ...

Bobby Vee, a clean-cut teen idol singer of the early 1960s who recorded such hit songs as “Take Good Care of My Baby,” “Rubber Ball” and “Come Back When You Grow Up,” and who once hired Bob Dylan for ...

In this photo made Dec. 18, 2013, Bobby Vee poses with his wife, Karen, at their home in Cold Spring, Minn. Alzheimer's disease forced the 1960s pop idol Vee to stop performing in 2011 and now 70, Vee ...