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Bobby Vinton's Blue Velvet
This is one American pop singer who I’m a great fan of. I find Bobby Vinton’s songs inspiring and I really enjoy listening to them. He comes from a Polish background and in music circles he became known as “The Polish Prince”. One of his most popular songs “Blue Velvet” reached number one and became the inspiration for a movie by the same name.

He scored big with the song “Roses Are Red (My Love)” and it rose to number one and stayed on the Billboard Hot 100 for a total of four weeks. This was followed by two number one hits in 1964 “There I’ve Said It Again” and “Mr. Lonely”. In 1965 Bobby Vinton scored a big hit with “Long Lonely Nights” and he released the album Bobby Vinton Sings for Lonely Nights. Another hit which he wrote himself “Coming

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