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American singer (b. 1935)

Bobby Vinton
Vinton in 1964
Background data
Nascency name	Stanley Robert Vinton
Built-in	(1935-04-sixteen) April 16, 1935 (historic period 87) Canonsburg, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Genres	Pop, lounge
Occupation(due south)	Singer songwriter actor
Instruments	Clarinet, oboe, saxophone, piano, drums, trumpet, vocals
Years active	1959–2015
Labels	Epic, ABC, Ahed, Tapestry, Curb
Website	bobbyvinton.com

Musical creative person

Stanley Robert Vinton (born April sixteen, 1935), better known by his stage name Bobby Vinton, is an American singer, songwriter, and actor. As a teen idol, he became known every bit 'The Smoothen Prince', as his music paid tribute to his Polish heritage. 1 of his most popular songs is "Bluish Velvet" (a encompass of the 1951 song recorded past Tony Bennett) which reached No. ane on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1963 and No. 2 in the Great britain in 1990.

Early life [edit]

Vinton was born in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania, the only child of locally popular bandleader Stan Vinton and Dorothy Studzinski Vinton.^[1] He is of Polish and Lithuanian descent. The family unit surname was originally Vintula, and was inverse by Vinton's begetter.^[2] Vinton's parents encouraged their son's interest in music by giving him his daily 25-cent allowance after he had practiced the clarinet.^[3]

At 16, Vinton formed his first band, which played clubs around the Pittsburgh area. With the money he earned, he helped finance his college education at Duquesne University, where he graduated with a caste in musical composition.^[1] While at Duquesne, he became proficient on all of the instruments in the ring: pianoforte, clarinet, saxophone, trumpet, drums, and oboe.^[four] When Vinton became an agile musician, it was common for people to become confused with the bands of male parent and son, for both were named Stanley. Vinton's father suggested his son use his middle proper noun of Robert professionally to articulate up the defoliation.^[5]

Vinton's birthplace of Canonsburg, Pennsylvania, is also the birthplace of Perry Como,^{[6] [7]} Vinton'southward hometown named two streets, Bobby Vinton Boulevard and the shorter bordering Bobby Vinton Drive, in his honor. These streets were built in the belatedly 1970s; prior attempts to name a residential street after him failed. The residents had not cared for the singer always claiming Pittsburgh equally his home town on Television set interviews. Como always claimed Canonsburg as his hometown, then hundreds of people changed their address when the town renamed a street in the east end after Perry Como. The Canonsburg town fathers had plans to erect a statue in Vinton'due south laurels, only Vinton himself vetoed the idea, noting that the $100,000 planned cost could become to far more than important town needs.^[viii]

Career [edit]

1950s [edit]

According to his autobiography, Bobby was inspired to record his music past the Elvis Presley moving picture Jailhouse Rock. He formed his own tape characterization, Bobby Records, in October 1958. His commencement release was "Twilight Time", backed with "Hallelujah". Bobby sang on the B-side of the 45 rpm release, making this his offset commercially released vocal recording. This record did not chart. In March 1959, Bobby recorded for the Tune label out of Philadelphia, listed equally "Bobby Vinton and his Orchestra" for the first time. His release of "Harlem Nocturne", backed with "Always in My Heart" with a vocal by Bobby, attracted attending in Pennsylvania. His 'boyfriend with a big band' style was established here, and "Always In My Heart" would be a song he would return to. In August 1959, Bobby moved to another larger tape visitor, Alpine Records. He released two self-written singles for Alpine, the first being "You lot'll Never Forget" backed by "Commencement Impression". The second Tall release was "A Freshman and a Sophomore", backed with the self-written "The Sheik"; this was released in Feb 1960. Both Tall releases garnered Billboard magazine mentions.

1960s [edit]

Afterwards two years of service in the The states Army, in which he served every bit a chaplain's banana, Vinton was signed to Epic Records in 1960 as a bandleader: "A Fellow With a Big Ring". The break for the Ballsy Records contract had come after Vinton and his band appeared on Guy Lombardo'south TV Talent Scouts plan.^{[one] [ix]} Since March twenty, 1961, his released three singles. Titled "Posin'" "Fiddling lonely 1" and "Well I enquire ya",these records were his vocal recordings, and the flip sides were credited to "Bobby Vinton And His Orchestra". Despite the large label backing, the three singles were non successful, and two albums, Bobby Vinton Dancing At The Hop and Bobby Vinton Plays for his Lil Darlin's did non sell well. With Epic ready to drib him from its roster, Vinton found the material for his first striking unmarried literally sitting in a refuse pile.^[3] The vocal was titled "Roses Are Scarlet (My Love)".^[10] Vinton had to do his own promotion for the song; he bought chiliad copies and hired a young woman to deliver a re-create of the record and a dozen red roses to every local DJ.^{[1] [11]} It spent four weeks at number one on the Billboard Hot 100. The song was also a hit on the Country and R&B charts. The success of the song pushed Ballsy to renew Vinton'southward contract and change his condition from bandleader to solo vocalizer.^[ten]

Arguably, Vinton'south most famous song is 1963'due south "Bluish Velvet", originally a minor hitting for Tony Bennett in 1951, that also spent three weeks at the number ane positions in Billboard, Cash Box, and Record Globe magazines. In 1986, 23 years after, David Lynch named his moving picture Blue Velvet after the song.^[ten] In 1990, "Blue Velvet" reached number 2 on the UK Singles Nautical chart, afterwards being featured in a Nivea commercial. The 1990 reissue also hit number 3 in the Irish Singles Chart and number 7 in Commonwealth of australia.

In 1964, Vinton had two number 1 hits, "At that place! I've Said It Again" (a number one hit in 1945 for Vaughn Monroe) in Jan and "Mr. Lonely" in Dec. Vinton's version of "In that location! I've Said It Over again" is noteworthy for beingness the last U.South. Billboard number-1 single of the pre-Beatles era, deposed from the Hot 100 summit by "I Want to Agree Your Hand". Also noteworthy is the fact that Vinton continued to have big striking records during the British Invasion, scoring 16 top-ten hits, while Connie Francis, Ricky Nelson, the Shirelles, and other major artists of the early on 1960s struggled to achieve even the Top xl.

Vinton wrote and composed "Mr. Lonely" during his chaplain's banana service in the U.S. Ground forces in the late 1950s. The vocal was recorded during the same 1962 session that produced "Roses Are Red (My Dearest)", and the two songs launched Vinton's singing career. Information technology was released as an album rail on the 1962 Roses Are Red (and other songs for the young & sentimental) LP. Despite pressure level from Vinton to release it as a single, Epic instead had Buddy Greco release information technology and information technology flopped. Two years and millions of records sold afterwards, Bobby prevailed on Epic to include "Mr. Lonely" on his Bobby Vinton's Greatest Hits LP. Soon DJs picked up on the vocal and airplay resulted in demand for a single release. "Mr. Lone" shot up the charts in the late fall of 1964 to reach number i on the Hot 100 on December 12, 1964. Epic then released the LP Bobby Vinton Mr. Lonely, giving the song a unique claim to fame since information technology now appeared on three Bobby Vinton albums released within two years. The song continued to spin gold for Vinton, its writer-composer, in the fifty+ years to date since reaching number ane; Harmony Korine named his 2007 film Mister Lonely afterward the latter and features the song in the film'due south opening, and information technology was too the basis for Akon'due south 2005 hit, "Alone".

In 1965, Vinton continued his "Lonely" success streak with the self-written "L-O-N-Eastward-L-Y". "Long Solitary Nights" peaked at number 17 and spawned an album, Bobby Vinton Sings for Lonely Nights. Vinton'south self-written 1966 hit "Coming Home Soldier" hit No. 11 on the Hot 100 and was a favorite on request shows on the American Forces Network during the Cold War and Vietnam era, often called in by soldiers most to board the Liberty Bird that would have them back to the "Land of the Round Doorknobs". Vinton's lush 1967 remake of "Please Love Me Forever", which reached number 6 and sold over a million copies, began a cord of twelve consecutive Hot 100 hits, all remakes, over a little less than 5-and-a-half years.^[10] His 1968 hit "I Love How You Love Me" surged to number 9, sold over one meg copies, and was awarded a gold tape by the RIAA.^[12]

1970s [edit]

In the 1970s, Bobby Vinton connected to hit the Top 40, notably with "Ev'ry Day of My Life", a No. ii Adult Contemporary striking also awarded the Jukebox single of the year award which was produced by Jimmy Bowen and CBS recording engineer Jim Reeves, which peaked at number 24 on April 29, 1972, and "Sealed With a Kiss" hitting number 19 on August 19–26, 1972.^[5] Despite the success of the two hits, Ballsy Records decided to driblet Vinton from his contract the following year, claiming that his days of selling records were over.

Undeterred, Vinton spent $fifty,000 of his own coin on "My Melody of Love", partially self-written and partially sung in Polish.^[10] The proffer for the song came from Vinton's mother.^{[2] [five]} After 6 major labels turned Vinton downward, ABC Records bought Vinton's thought, and the effect was a multi-one thousand thousand-selling single of simple lyrics that hit number 3 on the Billboard Hot 100, number 2 on the Cashbox Meridian 100 chart, and number 1 on the Air conditioning nautical chart in 1974.^{[2] [13]} A gold album, Melodies of Beloved, followed every bit well as i concluding Top xl popular hit (the traditional "Beer Barrel Polka", also sung partially in Shine, b/west "Dick And Jane" in 1975). Vinton would go on to tape an additional 4 albums for ABC Records, 3 of which hit the Billboard Hot 200 albums chart. Epic Records rediscovered Vinton in the wake of his newfound success, releasing two albums of previously recorded textile, both of which hit the top album charts. In addition, in a throwback to his career start in the 1950s, his ii albums on Ahed were released in Canada. Party Music (1976) went platinum and 100 memories (1979) was successful. In 1975, Vinton exploded onto televisions across the Usa and Canada with a successful one-half-hour diverseness evidence, The Bobby Vinton Evidence, which aired from 1975 to 1978 and of which "My Tune of Love" was the theme vocal; ABC Records subsequently released an album of songs performed on the prove.^[fourteen]

In 1978, Vinton wrote his autobiography, titled The Polish Prince, which became a bestseller. In the aforementioned year, CBS-Television set aired Bobby Vinton's Rock N' Rollers, a ane-hour special that achieved top ratings.

1980s–1990s [edit]

While appearing at Pittsburgh's Three Rivers Stadium prior to Game 4 of the 1990 National League Championship Series between the Pittsburgh Pirates and Cincinnati Reds, Vinton delivered a rendition of "The Star-Spangled Imprint" that mixed up and left out many of the words and was off-central. Controversy ensued after CBS broadcaster Jack Buck said on air, "Well, when you're Shine and live in Pittsburgh, you tin do anything you desire with the words!"^{[xv] [sixteen]}

Honors and achievements [edit]

In the early 1990s, Vinton establish himself booked as a guest star at the Roy Clark Theatre in Branson, Missouri. He was unsure of his power to draw at what was and then a country-western-themed resort, and was shocked at the massive turnout for his concerts there. He was so impressed with the Branson model that he invested millions in edifice the Bobby Vinton Blue Velvet Theatre and enjoyed ten successful years there. In 2002 the theatre was sold to David King, creator and producer of Spirit of the Dance.^{[9] [11]} Vinton returned to Branson periodically for limited engagements at the theatre.

Billboard Magazine chosen Bobby Vinton "the all-time virtually successful honey singer of the 'Rock-Era.'" From 1962 to 1972, Vinton had had more than Billboard number ane hits than any other male person vocaliser, including Elvis Presley and Frank Sinatra. In recognition of his recording career, Vinton was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, located at 6916 Hollywood Blvd.

Vinton's alma mater, Duquesne University, awarded him an honorary doctorate in music in 1978.^{[4] [14]}

In 2011, Grammy Award winner Jimmy Sturr and His Orchestra recorded the "Smoothen Prince" song, a tip of the hat to Vinton, and included it on their Grammy-nominated Non Just Another Polka CD. The song was written by Johnny Prill and was based on the 1978 autobiography The Polish Prince – Bobby Vinton.

Vinton performing in 2004

Interim [edit]

Vinton appeared in seven acting roles during his singing career, commencing with the beach party motion-picture show Surf Political party in 1964. In 1965, he played George Reynolds in the episode "Patty and the Newspaper Game" of ABC'south sitcom The Patty Duke Prove. He was also bandage as Jeff McCandles in the 1971 John Wayne film Big Jake and as Ben Young in another Wayne picture show, The Train Robbers (1973). His last role every bit a character was as Bobby Gaines in the 1983 episode "Adventure of a Lifetime" of the NBC family drama boob tube series Boone, starring Tom Byrd, while his last scripted function as himself was in 1997, appearing in function one of the three part series finale of Coach.

Personal life [edit]

Vinton and his wife, Dolores, have been married since Dec 17, 1962. They reside in Englewood, Florida, and accept five children: Robert (who played Vinton in the 1990 film Goodfellas), Kristin, Christopher, Jennifer Hannah and Rebecca.^{[1] [9]} In 2015, after contracting a serious instance of shingles, Vinton retired from live performing and recording. He spoke to his fans and friends in Feb 2018 on The Cousin Brucie Show on Sirius XM radio, and encouraged all to get a shingles vaccination. He said that he was very happy living in Florida. Several Bobby Vinton Facebook sites are very active with his fans sharing memories and stories.

Discography [edit]

Filmography [edit]

Twelvemonth	Title	Role	Notes
1964	Surf Party	Len Marshall	also theme vocal ("If I Were an Artist")
1965	The Patty Duke Show	George Reynolds	Episode: "Patty and the Newspaper Game"
1965	Harlow	Theme song ("Alone Girl") singer	Voice only
1971	Big Jake	Jeff McCandles
1973	The Train Robbers	Ben Young
1976	The Duchess and the Dirtwater Fox	Theme song ("Lemondrops, Lollipops and Sunbeams") singer	Vocalism just
1980	The Gossip Columnist	Marty Kaplan	Television moving picture
1983	Boone	Bobby Gaines	Episode: "Take chances of a Lifetime"
1985	Benson	Himself	Episode: "Solid Gold"
1997	Coach	Himself	Episode: "Leaving Orlando: Function ane"

References [edit]

1. ^ ^{a b c d e} Bishop, Pete (June v, 1983). "Bobby Vinton Finds That Hits Can Be Elusive". The Pittsburgh Press . Retrieved May 2, 2011.
2. ^ ^{a b c} "The Whirling Disks". Reading Hawkeye. August ten, 1975. Retrieved May two, 2011.
3. ^ ^{a b} Wilson, Earl (June 2, 1970). "Last Dark". Pittsburgh Postal service-Gazette . Retrieved May 2, 2011.
4. ^ ^{a b} "Vinton gets a doctorate". Gettysburg Times. October 10, 1978. Retrieved May 2, 2011.
5. ^ ^{a b c} Rogers, John (July 27, 1999). "'Polish Prince' Reigns in a State Town". Lakeland Ledger . Retrieved May 2, 2011.
6. ^ Funk, Harry (May 14, 1999). "A celebration for Mr. C." Observer-Reporter. Washington, PA. Retrieved November 25, 2010.
7. ^ Terry Hazlett, "National music spotlight brutal on area cheers to Vinton and Powers", Canonsburg Friends, January xiii, 2009. Retrieved June 9, 2014
8. ^ "Vinton: Tribute is Just Too Much". The Beaver Canton Times. Beaver, PA. Dec 28, 2004. Retrieved June 27, 2010.
9. ^ ^{a b c} Rizzo, Marian (March 22, 2002). "After xl Years, Bobby Vinton Isn't Slowing". Ocala Star-Banner . Retrieved May 2, 2011.
10. ^ ^{a b c d e} Larkin, Colin, ed. (1997). The Virgin Encyclopedia of Popular Music (Concise ed.). Virgin Books. p. 1220. ISBNone-85227-745-9.
11. ^ ^{a b} Hayes, John (March ii, 2002). "Bobby Vinton even so smooth as blue velvet". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Retrieved May ii, 2011.
12. ^ Murrells, Joseph (1978). The Book of Golden Discs (second ed.). London: Barrie and Jenkins Ltd. p. 250. ISBN0-214-20512-6.
13. ^ Hyatt, Wesley (1999). The Billboard Book of number 1 Developed Contemporary Hits (Billboard Publications)
14. ^ ^{a b} "Vinton enjoys career as multi-talented performer". Portsmouth Daily Times. August 4, 1990. Retrieved May 2, 2011.
15. ^ "Vinton, Buck Apologize for Wayward Words : Baseball: Vocaliser flubbed national anthem and sportscaster's remarks angered Smoothen community". Los Angeles Times. Associated Press. October 11, 1990. Archived from the original on Oct 17, 2015.
16. ^ "Smoothen grouping takes broadcaster Buck to task". Chicago Sun-Times. October 11, 1990. Archived from the original on October 21, 2012.

External links [edit]

whitforddights1963.blogspot.com

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Vinton

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