Bobby Vinton
Biography
Stanley Robert Vinton (born April 16, 1935) is an American pop music singer. At 16, Vinton formed his first band, which played clubs around the Pittsburgh area. With the money he earned, Vinton helped finance his college education at Duquesne University, where he studied music and graduated with a degree in musical composition. While at Duquesne, he became proficient on all of the instruments in the band: piano, clarinet, saxophone, trumpet, drums and oboe.
After a brief spell in the US Army, Vinton was signed to Epic Records in 1960 as a bandleader: "A Young Man With a Big Band." Two albums and several singles were not successful however, and with Epic ready to pull the plug, Vinton found his first hit single literally sitting in a reject pile. The song was titled "Roses Are Red (My Love)." It spent four weeks at No.1 on the Billboard Hot 100. Arguably, his most famous song is 1963's "Blue Velvet" that also went to No.1. 23 years later, David Lynch named his movie Blue Velvet after the song. In 1964, Vinton had two #1 hits, "There! I've Said It Again" and "Mr. Lonely", the latter now being the basis for Akon's hit "Lonely."
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Full filmography
- The Mike Douglas Show (1961) as Self
- Coach (1989) as Bobby Vinton
- The Merv Griffin Show (1962) as Self
- The Ed Sullivan Show (1948) as Self
- Dinah! (1974) as Self
- Benson (1979)
- Kraft Music Hall (1958) as Self
- The Hollywood Palace (1964) as Self
- Shindig! (1964) as Self - Singer
- The Patty Duke Show (1963)
- The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour (1969) as Self
- Barbara Mandrell and the Mandrell Sisters (1980) as Self
- Big Jake (1971) as Jeff McCandles
- The David Susskind Show (1959) as Self
- The Train Robbers (1973) as Ben Young
- Pink Lady (1980) as Bobby Vinton
- Hamburgers (1974) as self
- The Bobby Vinton Show (1975)
- The Gossip Columnist (1980) as Marty Kaplan
- Surf Party (1964) as Len Marshal