Bobby Vinton was a solitary figure in early ’60s pop. He was born too late to be one of the classic crooners, but he was a little too old to fit in with his fellow teen idols. He wanted to be a bandleader more than a singer, and his music bears few traces of contemporary [...]
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123) Bobby Vinton – “Mr. Lonely”
Posted in 05, 1964, tagged bobby vinton on February 10, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
103) Bobby Vinton – “There! I’ve Said It Again”
Posted in 04, 1964, tagged bobby vinton on April 14, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
GEORGE: “Quite nice, but I don’t think the public will buy it.” JOHN: “Get an old song and everybody does it again at the same time.” PAUL: “Secretly, teenagers don’t want old songs brought back.” RINGO: “Nice and smooth, ‘specially if you’re sitting in one night – and not alone.” Unanimous miss. -The Beatles rating [...]
98) Bobby Vinton – “Blue Velvet”
Posted in 07, 1963, tagged bobby vinton on March 9, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
In my review of “Roses Are Red (My Love),” I made no secret of my distaste for that single’s amateurish lyrics, hackneyed musicianship and simpering vocals. And although “Blue Velvet,” Bobby Vinton’s second number-one hit, sounds remarkably similar on a cursory listen, it far exceeds its predecessor. At first, I feared that my enjoyment of [...]
74) Bobby Vinton – “Roses Are Red (My Love)”
Posted in 03, 1962, tagged bobby vinton on October 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
When I first started this blog, I had planned on posting about once a day. And for a while there, I did – I was between semesters and taken with the idea of my shiny new blog. I was already 50 years and nearly 1000 number ones behind when I wrote my first review back [...]
