“Run to Him” was a 1962 song released by Bobby Vee that rose all the way to number two on the Billboard Hot 100, right behind “The Lion Sleeps Tonight.” The song, which was written by Gerry Goffin and Jack Keller, was on the album Take Good Care of My Baby.
According to SongFacts, originally, “Run to Him” was meant for The Everly Brothers. Don Kirshner, the co-founder of Aldon Music, thought it would be a hit for the band. However, Vee’s producer, Snuff Garrett, visited the Aldon office to pick up demos meant for Vee and ended up taking “Run To Him” as well, then selecting it as his next song.
Vee got his start when he was only 15. His band ended up filling in for Buddy Holly after his plane crash in 1959. He was only 19 when “Run to Him” was released.
When asked how he came up with his stage name, he told Gary James, “My legal name is Velline. When we first started out, we didn’t even know what to call the band. I was the only one who spent time trying to think of names for the band, and when we filled in for Buddy Holly, the disc jockey turned around and said ‘What’s the name of your band?’ He was about to introduce us. Nobody had thought of a name except me, and I just picked the name I liked the best and said, ‘The Shadows,’ and he said, ‘Here they are, ladies and gentlemen, The Shadows.’”
He continued, “This happened so fast for us. We were really a garage band in 1958. Of course, the Buddy Holly tragedy was February 3, 1959. After that, there was a guy in the audience who introduced himself and started booking us. He decided that I should give myself a name. He thought that Velline was not a name people would remember. He suggested I shorten it to Vee.”
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Vee was inducted into the Rockabilly Hall of Fame in 2011. In 2016, he died at the age of 73.
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