Track Listing

1. Blue Velvet
2. Tell Me Why
3. To Know You Is to Love You
4. Take Good Care of My Baby
5. There! I've Said It Again
6. Coming Home Soldier
7. Over the Mountain, Across the Sea
8. Halfway to Paradise
9. Please Love Me Forever
10. Blue on Blue
11. L-O-N-E-L-Y
12. Just as Much as Ever
13. I Love How You Love Me
14. My Heart Belongs to Only You
15. Mr. Lonely
16. Roses Are Red (My Love)

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #108170 in Music
• Brand: Sony
• Released on: 1991-09-03
• Number of discs: 1

Customer Reviews

Terrific Voice! Terrific Songs! Terrific Buy!
Reading through the liner notes, Vinton acknowledges he was something of an anomaly in the Sixties. "...I do have a unique style, one that is warm and intimate. That style is a blend of pop singing and country, a cross between Johnny Mathis and the late Hank Williams." Indeed, Vinton has more in common with such Fifties artists as Perry Como, Pat Boone and Andy Williams, than to his Sixties pop contemporaries. But in any era there's always room for good songs and a great voice to sing them. And from his debut No. 1, "Roses Are Red", in 1962 through his million-seller "I Love How You Love Me" in 1968, Vinton placed 24 songs in the Top 40--not bad for a guy competing for airplay with the Beatles and the Stones!

Choosing good songs, meant utilizing the best songwriters of the day, including Gerry Goffin and Carole King ("Halfway To Paradise" and "Take Good Care Of My Baby"), Burt Bacharach and Hal David ("Blue On Blue"), Phil Spector ("To Know You Is To Love You") and even Vinton himself "Mr. Lonely," "L-O-N-E-L-Y" and "Coming Home Soldier").

According to "The Golden Age of Top 40 Music on Compact Disc" by Pat Downey, these are all the original recordings. [So believe what you want about the previous reviewers' squabbling over authenticity.] And at sixteen tracks, it is the most thorough collection of his hits currently available. RECOMMENDED

Yes These Are Original Recordings
Please do not be misled by the mistaken midwesterner! All of the tracks on "16 Most Requested Songs" are original recordings as released on Epic from 1962-1972, with one notable exception. "To Know You Is To Love You" is an alternate take recorded at the same session as the hit released as a single. This alternate take is not noted on the album since it has been included here by mistake. The company never caught the error, and has also released the alternate take on a Reader's Digest 3 CD set. This little "extra" in my opinion adds to the historic value of the CD. Enjoy!

Nice Overview Of Bobby Vinton's Greatest Hits!
Bobby Vinton made quite a career out of a very limited vocabulary of song titles, a worked within a fairly narrow prism of subjects and styles. Yet in so doing he was immensely successful, and this Polish Adonis ripped up the charts with a number of hits including his first smash "Blue Velvet", "Tell Me Why", and "There! I've Said It Again". He was on the top ten charts almost continually throughout the early 1960s, and I remember hearing "Mr. Lonely" (about a soldier far away from home) when I myself was in fact a soldier a long, long way from home in 1965. It was eons and eons ago.

I also remember hearing "Coming Home Soldier" about the same time frame, and being impressed with his awareness of how many of us were in fact coming and going. And he had quite a run of hits, also including "Please Love Me Forever", "Blue On Blue", and "I Love How You Love Me". He also hit the charts with "Roses Are Red (My Love", one of his biggest hits, and with a cover of Johnny Tillotson's smash hit "Take Good Care Of my Baby". I understand he still tours, although he must be a little long in the tooth for such stuff nowadays. This is all good music, and it is always a pleasure to listen to. Enjoy!