''The Bobby Vinton Show'' was
Bobby Vinton's twenty-seventh studio
album and his third studio album for
ABC Records
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. It was released in
1975
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. It features 13 songs that were sung by Vinton on his half-hour variety show
of the same name. The album begins with the show's theme song, an instrumental version of Vinton's huge hit "
My Melody of Love
"My Melody of Love" is the title of a popular song from 1974 (see 1974 in music) by the American singer Bobby Vinton. Vinton adapted his song from a German schlager song composed by Henry Mayer, and it appears on Vinton's album '' Melodies of L ...
"; otherwise the remainder of the tracks are
cover versions of popular songs of the 1960s and early 1970s. The series was videotaped in Canada, which is where this album was also recorded. The album was produced by
Alan Thicke.
Track listing
Side A
# The Bobby Vinton Show Theme ("My Melody of Love" - Instrumental) - (Bobby Vinton,
Henry Mayer,
Georg Buschor
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) - 0:24
# "
Runaway
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" - (
Del Shannon,
Max Crook) - 1:55
# "
Killing Me Softly With His Song" - (
Norman Gimbel,
Charles Fox) - 4:01
# "
Build Me Up Buttercup
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" - (
Mike d'Abo,
Tony Macaulay) - 1:53
# "
Help Me Make It Through the Night" - (
Kris Kristofferson) - 2:32
# "
Bad Bad Leroy Brown" - (
Jim Croce) - 2:32
# "
The Way We Were" - (
Marvin Hamlisch
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,
Alan Bergman
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,
Marilyn Bergman) - 2:43
Side B
# "
Travelin' Band" - (
John Fogerty
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) - 2:10
# "
United We Stand" - (
Tony Hiller
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,
Peter Simmons) - 2:51
# "(
Where Do I Begin) Love Story" - (
Francis Lai,
Carl Sigman
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Early life
Born in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, New York to a Jewish-American family, Sigman graduated from law school and passed his bar exams to practice in ...
) - 3:39
# "
When Will I Be Loved" - (
Phil Everly) - 2:01
# "
I'm Walkin'" - (
Fats Domino,
Dave Bartholomew) - 1:37
# "
And I Love You So" - (
Don McLean) - 3:10
Personnel
*Studios: Toronto Sound, Sound Labs, Inc. and ABC Recording Studios, Inc.
*Engineers: Terry Brown, John Mills, Howard Gale
*Mastering: The Mastering Lab
*Engineer: Mike Reese
*Cover photo: Shelley Cohl
*Courtesy of Shiral Productions, Ltd.
*Executive producers: Alan Blye and Chris Beard
*Producer:
Alan Thicke
*Director: Mike Steele
*Musical director: Jimmy Dale
Charts
Album - ''Billboard'' (North America)
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