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Bobby Vinton

Bobby Vinton

Actor · b. 1935 · Canonsburg, Pennsylvania, USA

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."

Series15

  • TV5.8

    The Mike Douglas Show

    1961 · 11 votes

  • TV6.8

    The Merv Griffin Show

    1962 · 12 votes

  • TV6.7

    Coach

    1989 · 67 votes

  • TV7.0

    Dinah!

    1974 · 4 votes

  • TV6.8

    The Ed Sullivan Show

    1948 · 23 votes

  • TV7.1

    Benson

    1979 · 44 votes

  • TV5.4

    Kraft Music Hall

    1958 · 7 votes

  • TV6.2

    The Patty Duke Show

    1963 · 18 votes

  • TV6.8
  • TV6.4

    Shindig!

    1964 · 5 votes

  • TV5.0

    The Hollywood Palace

    1964 · 5 votes

  • TV7.0
  • TV6.0
  • TV7.0

    Pink Lady

    1980 · 2 votes

  • TV10.0

    The Bobby Vinton Show

    1975 · 1 votes

Movies4

  • Movie6.8

    Big Jake

    1971 · 255 votes

  • Movie6.3

    The Train Robbers

    1973 · 157 votes

  • Movie7.3

    The Gossip Columnist

    1980 · 3 votes

  • Movie4.5

    Surf Party

    1964 · 6 votes