Walk right back bobby vee biography

He moved to California in and not long afterward was drafted into the army. He was stationed in France for 18 months and, although army service limited his performing career, wrote one of his classic songs during this period. In the early s Curtis applied his songwriting skills to TV and radio commercials. Before he moved to Nashville from Los Angeles inhe wrote - with good friend and songwriting companion Don Piestrup, a composer and musician - numerous nationally known jingles for many prestigious commercial clients including McDonalds, Buick, Western Airlines, Honda, Olympia Beer, Bell Telephone and Mattel Toys.

Sonny's songs run the gamut of musical styles and tastes. Anyway, for firing expert, they gave me a three-day pass, and I went straight down to Hollywood, and the Crickets were there, and so were Don and Phil, who were doing some acting classes for movies — they had just signed for Warner Brothers. So, J. Jerry Allison of the Crickets told me to sing the song for Don — actually I had only one verse written — and Don called Phil down, and they worked out a gorgeous harmony part.

Walk right back bobby vee biography

So, they said, 'If you write another verse. Anyway, I went back to base, and wrote a second verse, and put it in the mail to them, and next morning, I got a letter from J. And that's the version that was released, and that's the version that was the hit! The joke is that Perry Como and Andy Williams and a whole bunch of others including myself, recorded the song with the second verse included, but when Anne Murray did it inshe just did the same as the Everlys, just the one verse — and that was a big hit all over again — so maybe the second verse was never meant to be!

These eyes of mine that gave you loving glances once before, change to shades of cloudy gray. I want so very much to see you, just like before. I've got to know you're coming back to stay. Please believe me when I say, 'It's great to hear from you,' but there's a lot of things a letter just can't say, oh, me. Walk right back to me this minute Contents move to sidebar hide.

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