Bobby Vee 1960

by Ethan Russell

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Shortly after Elvis was drafted, I was sent to boarding school outside Santa Barbara. As soon as I was able I grew my hair back, smothered it with grease, and combed it into as close a version of a duck tail as a prep school would allow. I donned Roy Orbison glasses. With Elvis out of circulation, I was now listening to Bobby Vee who looked like a cross between Fabian and Sandra Dee.  On his album cover he was wearing a powder-blue cashmere sweater with puffy balls on it, like a girl.

(From ETHAN RUSSELL: AN AMERICAN STORY available here.)

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