This was timely for me because I just watched a PBS special on Carole King last week. Carole and her husband wrote numerous hit songs for folks including the following one for Bobby Vee. Take Good Care of My Baby hit Number 1 on the Billboard charts today in 1961.
I also learned how Bobby got his big break as follows which once again proves the saying “One man’s misery is another man’s fortune:”
Vee’s career began in the midst of tragedy. On February 3, 1959, “The Day the Music Died,” three of the four headline acts in the lineup of the traveling Winter Dance Party—Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and the Big Bopper—were killed in the crash of a V-tailed 1947 Beechcraft Bonanza airplane, along with the 21-year-old pilot, Roger Peterson. (Dion DiMucci, the second headliner, had opted not to travel on the plane.) It crashed near Clear Lake, Iowa, en route to the next show on the tour itinerary, in Moorhead, Minnesota. Velline, then 15 years old, and a hastily assembled band of Fargo schoolboys (including his older brother Bill)[6] calling themselves the Shadows volunteered for and were given the unenviable job of filling in for Holly and his band at the Moorhead engagement. Their performance there was a success, setting in motion a chain of events that led to Vee’s career as a popular singer. (From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Vee)