Robert Thomas Velline (April 30, 1943 – October 24, 2016) known professionally as Bobby Vee, was an American singer who was a teen idol in the early 1960s and also appeared in films.

MINNEAPOLIS -- Pop idol Bobby Vee, the boyish, grinning 1960s singer whose career was born when he took a Midwestern stage as a teenager to fill in after the 1959 plane crash that killed rock 'n' roll ...