Bobby Vinton - Blue Velvet
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Track List: Blue Velvet
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Album Details: Blue Velvet
- Release Date:
- 01/01/1963
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Pro Reviews: Blue Velvet
| EXPERT RATING: From AMG Reviews Blue Velvet is a retitled reissue of Bobby Vinton's album Blue on Blue, originally released earlier in 1963. Sporting a theme inspired by Vinton's hit "Blue on Blue," every song on the album has the word "blue" in its title. The sobbing balladeer style heard later on hits like "Mr. Lonely" hadn't quite developed at this stage, so the songs are quite diverse. A few rockers find Vinton copping some of Bobby Vee's vocal mannerisms, and the fingersnapping renditions of pop standards like "Blue Skies" and "My Blue Heaven" are pretty neat but completely unlike his later lushlyorchestrated ballads. Vinton covers fairly recent hits like Don Gibson's "Blue, Blue Day" and the Fleetwoods' "Mr. Blue," but most of the songs were already oldies in 1963. The title of the album was changed to Blue Velvet to promote the "Blue Velvet" single, which became Vinton's second No. 1 hit a few months after the album was first released. - Greg Adams, All Music Guide |
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Bobby Vinton Biography
Every era needs its crooner, and in the early '60s, it was Bobby Vinton. Vinton's sentimental balladeering and orchestral, middle-of-the-road arrangements were a throwback to a decade earlier, before rock roll had found its mass market. If Vinton is...Full Bobby Vinton Biography
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