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Bobby Vinton

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I played Big Band jazz music. I wasn't into rock and roll. I was just there because it was a living. I surprised everyone. I'm still surprising people.


— Bobby Vinton


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I remember Mick Jagger asking me 'hey, how do you guys feel about us coming over here and taking all the play from you guys?' I said 'Well, in a way, you have eliminated all my competition.


— Bobby Vinton


#asking #coming #competition #eliminated #feel

I was a schooled musician. When I made 'Blue Velvet', I told everyone what to do. I was an arranger. I learned music in school I told the band to play this. I told the guitar to do that.


— Bobby Vinton


#band #blue #everyone #guitar #i

I was smart, to tell you the truth. I'm not really bright, but I'm not stupid.


— Bobby Vinton


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It's just different today. Nobody seems to last too long these days. I wouldn't know how to get started today.


— Bobby Vinton


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Most of those takes were one take. I made those records in three minutes. I didn't have time to get nervous or scared the first time I sang it. It was all 'live' and I enjoyed it so much.


— Bobby Vinton


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Nobody really thought I was going to make it, because I was a musician. I really wasn't a singer.


— Bobby Vinton


#going #i #make #musician #nobody

Sammy Davis, I backed him up. I used to study him every night. I saw how great performers worked and was able to incorporate a little bit from the best.


— Bobby Vinton


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The whole format of entertainment that I did seems to be fading away. The music business of today is completely different when you see the videos and the music.


— Bobby Vinton


#business #completely #did #different #entertainment

They said hey look, The Beatles deserve to be number one, not Bobby Vinton. We're gonna cut your tires. Change that listing. They were dedicated at the time.


— Bobby Vinton


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Did you know about Bobby Vinton?

A gold album Melodies of Love followed as well as more Top 40 pop hits ("Beer Barrel Polka" and "Dick And Jane" in 1975) a successful half-hour variety show The Bobby Vinton Show (which aired from 1975 to 1978) which used "My Melody of Love" as its theme song; ABC Records subsequently released an album of songs performed on the show. Undeterred Vinton spent $50000 of his own money on a self-written song sung partially in Polish: "My Melody of Love". Twenty-three years later David Lynch named his movie Blue Velvet after the song.

His most popular song "Blue Velvet" was a cover of the The Clovers' 1950s song that served as inspiration for a film of the same name as well as one of the most popular covers of the song when it peaked at No. 1 on the now renamed Billboard Pop Singles Chart. Bobby Vinton (born April 16 1935) is an American pop music singer of Polish ethnic background.

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