{"id":481575,"date":"2019-01-30T14:01:27","date_gmt":"2019-01-30T21:01:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=786390"},"modified":"2019-01-30T14:01:27","modified_gmt":"2019-01-30T21:01:27","slug":"flashback-bob-dylan-dedicates-a-song-to-bobby-vee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/music-news\/flashback-bob-dylan-dedicates-a-song-to-bobby-vee\/","title":{"rendered":"Flashback: Bob Dylan Dedicates a Song to Bobby Vee"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Bob Dylan<\/a> typically doesn\u2019t say much to the crowd during his shows. But in July 2013, when performing in his home state of Minnesota, he offered a rare spoken-word introduction to a cover of \u201cSuzie Baby,\u201d\u00a0a 1959 hit by the Minnesota pop singer Bobby Vee<\/a>, who was in attendance that night.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI used to live here, and then I left,\u201d Dylan said. \u201cI\u2019ve played with everybody, from Mick Jagger to Madonna \u2026 but the most meaningful person I\u2019ve ever been onstage with is a man who\u2019s here tonight, who used to sing a song called \u2018Suzie Baby.\u2019\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Dylan and Vee, who passed away in 2016 at the age of 73, have a long shared history, dating back all the way to the year of \u201cSuzie Baby.\u201d On the night of February 3rd, 1959, Vee was asked to replace Buddy Holly<\/a> on a scheduled show in Moorhead, Minnesota, after a plane crash killed Winter Dance Party tourmates Holly, Ritchie Valens and J.P. Richardson. This Sunday marks the 50<\/span>th<\/span> anniversary of that infamous plane crash, later memorialized as the Day the Music Died in Don McLean\u2019s song \u201cAmerican Pie.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

That same year, Vee hired a teenage pianist going by the name of Elston Gunnn [sic]. \u201cOne day my brother Bill came home and said he was talking with a guy at Sam\u2019s Recordland who claimed he played the piano and had just come off a tour with Conway Twitty,\u201d Vee later recalled.<\/span><\/p>\n

Gunnn, it turns out, was none other than Dylan, who, at 18, had certainly never before toured with Twitty. His short-lived engagement with Vee, which only lasted a couple shows, was Dylan\u2019s first ever opportunity touring with a nationally known recording artist.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIt was ill-fated,\u201d Vee later explained<\/a> of why the association was so brief. \u201cI mean, it wasn\u2019t gonna work. He didn\u2019t have any money, and we didn\u2019t have any money. The story is that I fired him, but that certainly wasn\u2019t the case. If we could have put it together somehow, we sure would have. We wished we could have put it together. He left and went on to Minneapolis and enrolled at the University of Minnesota.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Still, getting any chance to perform with a singer connected, however loosely, to the Winter Dance Party was a full-circle moment for Dylan, who famously saw Holly perform on that very tour in Duluth on January 31st, just a few days before the singer died.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI went to see Buddy Holly play at Duluth, the National Guard Armory,\u201d Dylan would later say of that moment. \u201cI was three feet away from him, and he looked at me.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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Bob Dylan typically doesn\u2019t say much to the crowd during his shows. But in July 2013, when performing in his home state of Minnesota, he offered a rare spoken-word introduction to a cover of \u201cSuzie Baby,\u201d\u00a0a 1959 hit by the Minnesota pop singer Bobby Vee, who was in attendance that night. \u201cI used to live […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-481575","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-13 08:55:57","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KQZR - The Reel","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=481575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481575\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=481575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=481575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=481575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}