Melodies of Love

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Melodies of Love
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Studio album by Bobby Vinton
Released November 1974
Studio Sound Lab, A&M, John Wagner, Sunwest
Genre Pop
Label ABC
Producer Bob Morgan
Bobby Vinton chronology
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(1974) The Many Moods of Bobby Vinton: Bobby Vinton...in Love1974
Melodies of Love
(1974)
With Love
(1974) With Love1974
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Melodies of Love is Bobby Vinton's twenty-fourth studio album and his first studio album for ABC Records. It was released in 1974.

Bobby Vinton American singer

Stanley Robert Vinton, Jr., known professionally as Bobby Vinton, is an American singer and songwriter who also briefly appeared in films. In pop music circles, he became known as "The Polish Prince", as his music pays tribute to his Polish heritage. His most popular song was "Blue Velvet", a cover of Tony Bennett's 1951 song, which reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1963 and number two in the UK in 1990. It also served as inspiration for the film of the same name.

Album collection of recorded music, words, sounds

An album is a collection of audio recordings issued as a collection on compact disc (CD), vinyl, audio tape, or another medium. Albums of recorded music were developed in the early 20th century as individual 78-rpm records collected in a bound book resembling a photograph album; this format evolved after 1948 into single vinyl LP records played at ​33 13 rpm. Vinyl LPs are still issued, though album sales in the 21st-century have mostly focused on CD and MP3 formats. The audio cassette was a format used alongside vinyl from the 1970s into the first decade of the 2000s.

ABC Records was an American record label founded in New York City in 1955. It originated as the main popular music label operated by the Am-Par Record Corporation. Am-Par also created the Impulse! jazz label in 1960. It acquired many labels before ABC was sold to MCA Records in 1979. ABC produced music in a variety of genres: pop, rock, jazz, country, rhythm and blues, soundtrack, gospel, and polka. In addition to producing records, ABC licensed masters from independent record producers, and purchased regionally released records for national distribution.

Contents

The album was released in response to popular demand, following Vinton's million-selling single "My Melody of Love", his first single in two years, which proved a successful comeback and earned Vinton the nickname "the Polish Prince". After the song became a #3 hit on the Billboard Hot 100 and a #1 adult contemporary hit, the semi-eponymous album was released, reaching #16 on the Billboard Hot 200 list of popular albums and going gold.

My Melody of Love 1974 single by Bobby Vinton

"My Melody of Love" is the title of a popular song from 1974 by the American singer Bobby Vinton. Vinton adapted his song from a German song composed by Henry Mayer, and it appears on Vinton's album Melodies of Love. The song was also recorded by Spanish pop singer Karina as "Palabras de Cristal".

The Billboard Hot 100 is the music industry standard record chart in the United States for songs, published weekly by Billboard magazine. Chart rankings are based on sales, radio play, and online streaming in the United States.

"My Melody of Love" is the first track on the album and is the album's highest charting single. Cover versions include Olivia Newton-John's hit "I Honestly Love You", Alice Faye's "You'll Never Know" and Al Martino's "Here in My Heart". The fifth track, "Am I Losing You", is a reworking of the Italian song "Io ti darò di più" with a few English lyrics replacing some of the Italian lyrics.

Olivia Newton-John English-born Australian singer, songwriter and actress

Olivia Newton-John, is an English-Australian singer, songwriter, actress, entrepreneur, and activist. She is a four-time Grammy award winner who has amassed five number-one and ten other top ten Billboard Hot 100 singles, and two number-one Billboard 200 solo albums. Eleven of her singles and 14 of her albums have been certified gold by the RIAA. She has sold an estimated 100 million records worldwide, making her one of the world's best-selling artists of all time. She starred in the musical film Grease, and its soundtrack is one of the most successful in history, with the single "You're the One That I Want", with John Travolta, one of the best selling singles.

I Honestly Love You 1974 single by Olivia Newton-John

"I Honestly Love You" was a worldwide pop hit single for Olivia Newton-John in 1974. The song was Newton-John's first number-one single in the United States and Canada.

Alice Faye American actress and singer

Alice Jeanne Faye was an American actress and singer. Faye is described by The New York Times as "one of the few movie stars to walk away from stardom at the peak of her career." She won the 1944 Academy Award for Best Original Song for "You'll Never Know", in which Faye was introduced in the musical film Hello, Frisco, Hello (1943).

Track listing

  1. "My Melody of Love" (Bobby Vinton, Henry Mayer) - 3:08
  2. "I Honestly Love You" (Peter Allen, Jeff Barry) - 3:25
  3. "You'll Never Know" (Mack Gordon, Harry Warren) - 2:40
  4. "Dick and Jane" (Dewayne Blackwell) - 3:15
  5. "Never Ending Song of Love" (Delaney Bramlett) - 2:57
  6. "Am I Losing You" (Bobby Vinton, Alberto Testa, Memo Remigi) - 3:00
  7. "The Most Beautiful Girl" (Norro Wilson, Billy Sherrill, Rory Michael Bourke) - 2:27
  8. "My Gypsy Love" (Bobby Vinton) - 3:12
  9. "I'll Be Loving You" (Bobby Vinton, Gene Allan) - 2:46
  10. "Here in My Heart" (Pat Genaro, Lou Levinson, Bill Borrelli) - 2:43
  11. "I Want to Spend My Life With You" (Larry Weiss, John Williams) - 3:07

Personnel

Allan Alfonzo (Al) Capps was an American record producer, arranger, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and vocalist. Since the 1960s and 1970s, he has produced and arranged albums for popular artists such as Cher, Andy Williams, Helen Reddy, José Feliciano, Vicki Lawrence, and Liza Minnelli, and has delivered film music for more than twenty films. As a musician he played on albums by The Everly Brothers, Gábor Szabó, and Frank Sinatra. More recently, he has made music for commercials of international brands.

Mike Melvoin was an American jazz pianist, composer, and arranger. He served as chairman and president of The Recording Academy and worked as a prolific studio musician, recording with Frank Sinatra, John Lennon, The Jackson 5, Natalie Cole, and The Beach Boys. Melvoin was nominated for the 2003 Grammy Award for Best Jazz Instrumental Solo for "All or Nothing at All" from his album It's Always You.

Joseph "Joe" Reisman was an American musician, bandleader, arranger, and record producer in the swing era.

Charts

Album - Billboard (North America)

YearChartPosition
1974The Billboard 20016

This album was re-released through Pickwick Records as SPC 3553 Melodies of love

Singles - Billboard (North America)

YearSingleChartPosition
1974"My Melody of Love"The Billboard Hot 1003
1975"Dick and Jane"The Billboard Hot 10033
1974"My Melody of Love"Adult Contemporary1

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References

  1. "Melodies of Love - Bobby Vinton". Allmusic . Retrieved 27 July 2012.