Bobby Vee - Please Don't Ask About Barbara w/ LYRICS

[farone100]

this is sooooooo beautiful--I found an album by him years ago " Robert Thomas Vallen" spelling?-it was him doing accoustic versions of his song --got lost over the years does anyone know where I can find it?????

[oldcomputers69]

I had a girlfriend called Barbara, dumped her for a girl called Mandy, they had a cat fight over me, how time passes.

[elmerhdga]

brent441 thanks for this Great post !!!  (a Bobby Vee fan since 1960.)

[PaulKyriazi]

Bob Dylan is a big fan of Bobby's and a friend. Bobby was nice to Dylan when he was trying to make it.

[jimidee33]

Hmm, I had a girlfriend named babara. She was a self centered sort; you know the kind.

[davehandsome8]

I dated a girl named Barbara who was the love of my life back in 1962. We dated for 5 years, but unfortunately I was too immature and failed to perceive that she was about to break off with me. She did, and that day the song 'Barbara' was released, and I do remember crying for days on end. Eventually though, I got over her. A year later she married my best friend who I had introduced her to. I was a fool, and paid the price for being such.

[Brent441]

@davehandsome8 Very sad... We can all relate to our first love :>(

[VinDcator]

@Brent441 Yes, and it's been said that you can get over your first love, but never forget it. But then again, who really wants to?

[Taharah007]

@davehandsome8 Don't feel bad...it just wasn't meant to be...but I do know it's so very difficult to lie in bed at night and think of all the "mistakes" we made...however, how would our lives be changed? God bless!

[VinDcator]

@Taharah007 Have to learn from them--if we'd let them.

[tvnetdude]

@davehandsome8 Are they still together?

[Guilleramos]

@davehandsome8 I feel sorry for it, something similar has just happened to me this month, I failed that she wanted to break up, However I´m trying to get over her. Eventually I think that I would achieve it.

Regards from Spain

[VinDcator]

@davehandsome8 I made the same kind of mistake with a woman last year. I was 63-years-old. It's never too late to grow-up, right?

[67bonita]

My first love was a girl named Barbara in 1963

Wish I could see her again

[cardcrzy49]

knew a red haired girl in the 60;S NAMED BARBARA---WISH I STILL DID!!!!!

[redknitter1946]

Im the Barbara xx

[dougdbs]

i love this song its tear jerker

[shmuli9]

This reminds me a bit of "I Wish I'd Never Met You" by Helen Shapiro...

[terrymags1]

Bobby is in my top ten of the greatest pop singers of all time, along with Pitney , Shannon , and the greatest of them all The big " O "

[flatsfishingonline]

@terrymags1 Gene Pitney and Bobby Vee will always shine in the musical sky

[robertbuk100]

Love this song makes me wonder about my first girlfriend all though years ago

[vegans80]

Love, love this song my name is Barbara and a past boyfriend played this 4 me on the phone when we broke up. he called me on the phone and played it 3 me and I couldn't help but cry. Thats been 46 years ago.Thank you sooooo much 4 this song poster & BOBBY VEE!!!!!!!!!!!

[banksprogheim]

Haven't heard this in more than forty years. Had almost forgotten about it, when I heard someone mention the songtitle this afternoon and my reaction to that was Oh yeah, THAT!

Bobby Vee's big hits were quite emotion-weilding, imo. I really liked them all.

[pbesmer]

Does bobby vee still perform? where?

[shmuli9]

@pbesmer He performs all over the world, usually at so-called "oldies" shows...

[centralparocker]

They don't write them like this anymore....too bad you never hear this on hardly any of the alleged 'oldies' stations.

[Azishome]

@centralparocker That's because the PDs and programmers are 25-year-old idiots who think good oldies music is Ina-Gada-Da-Vida. These guys are thinking with manure instead of brains. And the people who hire them are even more worthless. Talk to the old guys who were 25 when our kind of music was popular; they're wise, sad and some of them are even angry because of the junk they have to play now. And they usually now have to work at whatever station will hire an old guy.

[bobaloo47]

GREAT TUNE FROM ONE OF MY FAVORITE PERFORMERS

[EVIEHEARS]

It seems incredible that there could be so much great music back then....what the heck is wrong with "today"....? Someone would almost think that music has been banned. Thank God for you tube....

[lumpishqa]

How do I find mp3iffy to download this song? I was told to google mp3iffy.

[RAAdams]

It's incredible how many hit songs Bobby Vee had. This is one of my favorites. The line Please Don't Ask About Barbara is so melodically beautiful, it cuts right into me. The whole song is unusually complex for its era. And Bobby sings it perfectly.

[bws468]

This song suffered from bad timing. Dick Clark refused to play it on "American Bandstand" because he had just gotten a divorce from his first wife, whose name was Barbara. As a result, it wasn't as big a hit as it could have been.

[Joeygeegiannunzio]

Met Bobby this summer in concert and after the show.. Great guy, great singer and guitar player. His sons good, too. The young teens don't have love songs like this any more. Bring back the past, please. Joe

[stanich054]

Great arrangements on most of his recordings, Excellent record productions with Bobby Vee!

[bubski1100]

Music was so good back then!

[JOYOUSONEX]

God wasn't it ever!!

[bubski1100]

If only we could go back :)

[eviewalton]

@bubski1100 how many times i've said that ..those 6 words have so much meaning

[7luner]

of course none of them have cried as much as I have. In fact they don't know how to cry.Barb

[7luner]

he he it is to good to be true something about me. I love it. I can tell you that it will go along with my commpany that I have kept all of my life. I love it.

[ViennaForever]

Something revolutionary was being communicated in these songs in the 50's and 60's that made them more powerful emotionally to teenagers in the USA than the simple lyrics might suggest. There was a time when a MAN would never admit to feeling so emotional over a girl in a public song that he would talk of CRYING, TEARS, BROKEN HEART. This was a macho time yet here came songs where guys admitted to crying "just like girls"! Of feeling BLUE and shedding tears as a teenage boy. Huge breakthrough!

[fntime]

Vienna, your comment, is brillient.

even if I can't spell.

When I see the AMC series MAD MEN,

I think of your comments, speaks volumes!

Hail, Hail to you!!!!!

[palehorseone]

You said it. We guys cried! All the more when songs like this touched such a nerve. My big heartbreak song was "Hey Girl" by Freddie Scott. Wow - I still get chills, and that was --- MANY years ago...

[mvbff200]

Unfortunately, I don't have my own computer.

[mvbff200]

I love this song. Wish I could find the mp3 for it. The library doesn't have the CD and I don't have money. UGH.

[spoofa20]

try limewire -it's free.

Chris

[Brent441]

Send me your email address and I will send you the MP3 :>)

[kismet818]

@mvbff200 I have this song on my music library if you want I can burn a CD with this song on it and mail it to you then you can rip it onto your computer then upload it into your MP3 player. No charge. Let me know. By the way, I love this song too!!!!!

[mhszephyr]

@mvbff200 Download the video and rip it with an audio extractor such as AOA audiio extractor - it's freeware!

[stanich054]

To think that Bobby got his start filling in for the deceased Buddy Holly, J.P. Richardson, Richie Valens at the "Starlite Ballroom " after their tragic Plane crash!

[tunesmith09]

OMG!...that's my use of today's terms...that being said...God...please bring back the days of holding each other when we dance...when songs end in about three minutes...when artists, bands, and audiences dressed nicely. I forget which of his songs I commented to on You Tube...saw him slightly past his prime...but aren't most of us? He and his band were beyond awesome! He played my requests of "Sharing You and Please Don't Ask About Barbara"...Mr. Vee...you and yours are a national treasure!

[motowngirl65]

I completely forgot about this song. What memories. I'm glad I grew up when this was the stuff we listened to. I could never have survied with today's so called music.

[philochs]

Good thing we still have the oldies. I can't survive with modern music either. They stopped searching for talent in the entertainment industries long ago. Now they have hip-hop and rock music that mostly is just noise. People that grow up on modern music tend to be morons.

[guidofski]

So sad and beautiful! Bobby Vee had such a sweet voice.

[rdf1947]

Great memories. Thanks so much for the post.

[pippinand]

God these songs bring back so many memories. I had most of Bobby Vee's singles and played them almost through to the other side. They don't make songs like this any more.

[henryleigh24]

Really wish other people my age (17) still liked this music I have grown up with it and will always love.

[Zareen66]

Oh, Wot Memory's. these song's will go on 4eva!!GR8 VID 4 a lovely song. Thanx 4 the posting. x

[iceravenii]

wow i never knew about this song ! good song thanks 4 uploading

[stanich054]

Thanks for sharing woderful music that makes wonderful memories!

[zaaritha]

A favorite from my teens--SO long ago!

[jobe413007]

fantastic memory! thanks for posting! sure puts a smile on an "old face"!!!

[rkhan18]

it just made me cry!

[gazer234]

great song

[juliewittman]

I just love Booby and he'd be surprised to find out what and who .. some of the richest and powerful people were teenagers when he was huge.. they, and i love to hear his songs.. sing on ...

[wollschuh]

Sweet song...reminds me of good old times when we thought the world was OK (though there was the BOMB and the Berlin wall).But we didn't mind then and rather listened to Bobby Vee...Thanks from Germany!

[bufb]

great song

[Brent441]

NOTE; Click on (more info) to see the LYRICS to this great song...Please let me know of any omissions or errors...Thank You...

[fntime]

Good job,Brent!

[1fenwayfan]

wow i remember this, great song..love bobby vee

[blefusku]

tahnk you!!

[paul5944]

lets have run to him and walking with my angel please make me happy thanks pauls mom

[TUPELOMISS]

MEOWSICMAN has posted Run To Him.

The only version of Walking With My Angel - available on You Tube - is by Bobby Curtola.

[oldibutgoodi54]

I just uploaded the audio. Hope you will still like it.

[TUPELOMISS]

When I saw Bobby Vee in concert a few years ago - as part of a great show including also including Brian Hyland, Tommy Roe and Fabian (and one of the girl groups I cannot recall) Bobby told an interesting little story about this song.

[TUPELOMISS]

He said that shortly after this song came out, John Kennedy was assassinated - which cast a pall over everything and everybody. The result being that this song was not nearly as successful as it otherwise might have been.

That story bounced around my cranium until I got home, and had a chance to check it out.

[TUPELOMISS]

Bobby's story was just that - a story. This song came out early in 1962 - more than a year BEFORE Kennedy was shot. Perhaps Bobby's just a novelist at heart.

[L3S3R4]

Thank you for posting ! I've been looking for this in youtube for a long time.

[tbirdtim]

This is a very cool record. Great strings, nice guitar work (Tommy Allsup, I'm fairly certain), but Bobby also does some very nice 2-part harmonies. Superb!

[kelzzz12]

reminds me of my youth.I was into the everly brothers also.take care ;2b4fun