Bobby Vinton's All-Time Greatest Hits Bobby Vinton. Bobby Vinton Bobby Vinton (born April 16, 1935) is an American pop music singer of Polish ethnic background. In pop music circles, he became known as 'The Polish Prince'. His most popular song, 'Blue Velvet', was a cover of the The Clovers' 1950s song that served as inspiration for a film of. Bobby Vinton - Pandora. Try disabling any ad blockers and refreshing this page. If that doesn't work, please visit our help page.
| Bobby Vinton's Greatest Hits | ||||
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| Greatest hits album by | ||||
| Released | September 1964 | |||
| Genre | Pop | |||
| Label | Epic | |||
| Producer | Bob Morgan | |||
| Bobby Vinton chronology | ||||
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Bobby Vinton's Greatest Hits is a 12-track compilation by Bobby Vinton. It was released in September 1964, two months after his album Tell Me Why.
By the end of summer 1964, Vinton had had eleven Billboard Top 40 hits (including three No. 1's), prompting Epic Records to compile his first greatest hits album. With one gap left to fill on the package and his then-current single 'Clinging Vine' working its way up the charts, Vinton requested that Epic round out the compilation with 'Mr. Lonely' (previously featured on his debut vocal album Roses Are Red) and issue it as his next single in conjunction with the album. This rare gambit of reissuing and promoting an older album track paid off as 'Mr. Lonely' gave Vinton his fourth, albeit last, No. 1 hit on the Billboard Hot 100.
Every couple of weeks we received one or two packages of photocopied 'course notes'. In that +hour of thumbing, 2-months of stress class came into sharper focus. This guy was a real theorist and had a complex writing style: what a nightmare trying to sort-out stress with his overly simplistic sketches and long equations!One day I was down-town SLO and discovered a used book store and was soon poking around the engineering texts. 
I remember standing there thumbing thru page after page till I had to pee so bad I could hardly stand it. Guess what I found: a ‘gently used’ copy of Bruhn, 1965.
Ten of the twelve tracks were featured on Vinton's first six vocal albums. Both charted sides of the 1963 single 'Let's Kiss and Make Up'/'Trouble Is My Middle Name' make their album debut here.
The song 'I Love You The Way You Are' was originally recorded in the late 50s as a demo and left unreleased. After Vinton had a hit with 'Roses are Red (My Love)', Diamond Records purchased the demo and issued it as a single, reaching #38. They didn't even have another Vinton song to use as the B-side, so they put a song by Chuck and Johnny as the flip. Diamond refused to lease the single to Epic for the LP, so Epic had Vinton rerecord the song. The original hit version has never been issued on LP. [1]
Track listing[edit]
| Side 1 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Original album | Length |
| 1. | 'Blue Velvet' | Bernie Wayne, Lee Morris | Blue on Blue | 2:49 |
| 2. | 'Roses Are Red (My Love)' | Paul Evans, Al Byron | Roses Are Red | 2:38 |
| 3. | 'Blue on Blue' | Hal David, Burt Bacharach | Blue on Blue | 2:24 |
| 4. | 'Mr. Lonely' | Bobby Vinton, Gene Allen | Roses Are Red | 2:40 |
| 5. | 'Let's Kiss and Make Up' | Van McCoy, Norman Meade | Epic single 9561 | 2:28 |
| 6. | 'My Heart Belongs to Only You' | Frank Daniels, Dorothy Daniels | There! I've Said It Again | 2:42 |
| Side 2 | ||||
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| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Original album | Length |
| 1. | 'There! I've Said It Again' | Redd Evans, David Mann | There! I've Said It Again | 2:22 |
| 2. | 'Rain Rain Go Away' | Gloria Shayne, Noël Regney | Bobby Vinton Sings the Big Ones | 2:55 |
| 3. | 'I Love You the Way You Are' | Bobby Vinton | Bobby Vinton Sings the Big Ones | 2:55 |
| 4. | 'Over the Mountain (Across the Sea)' | Rex Garvin | The Greatest Hits of the Golden Groups | 2:23 |
| 5. | 'Trouble Is My Middle Name' | Neval Nader, John Gluck, Jr. | Epic single 9561 | 2:28 |
| 6. | 'Tell Me Why' | Al Alberts, Marty Gold | Tell Me Why | 2:36 |
Album credits[edit]
- Produced by Bob Morgan
- Cover photo by Cardell Photo of Pittsburgh
Charts[edit]
Album - Billboard (North America)
| Year | Chart | Position |
|---|---|---|
| 1964 | The Billboard 200 | 12 |
Singles - Billboard (North America)
| Year | Single | Chart | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1963 | 'Trouble Is My Middle Name' | The Billboard Hot 100 | 33 |
| 1963 | 'Trouble Is My Middle Name' | Billboard Adult Contemporary | 7 |
| 1963 | 'Let's Kiss and Make Up' | The Billboard Hot 100 | 38 |
| 1964 | 'Tell Me Why' | The Billboard Hot 100 | 13 |
| 1964 | 'Tell Me Why' | Billboard Adult Contemporary | 3 |
References[edit]
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