Bobby Vinton - My Melody of Love (7" Single) (1974) Vinyl 45 • Melodies

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Vinyl plays with occasional light-crackles (play-graded). 7" Single. Original ABC Records sleeve looks good; light scuffing and creasing, especially around center hole (front/back). Number 9 written on front and price sticker on back. Minor shelf-wear along edges and corners. Opening is crisp with signs of use and tiny tears and wrinkles. Mid-to-late 70s pressing with orange and yellow label. (Not a cut-out.)

Tracks:

1. My Melody Of Love
2. I'll Be Loving You

About The Record:

My Melody of Love was adapted by Bobby Vinton from a German schlager song composed by Henry Mayer, and it appears on Vinton's album Melodies of Love. Vinton came up with the idea to adapt Mayer's song while performing in Las Vegas, Nevada. The original song was called Herzen haben keine Fenster ("Hearts have no windows") and was a hit in Germany and Austria as performed by Austrian singer Elfi Graf. My Melody of Love became Vinton's highest charting US pop hit since Mr. Lonely reached No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1964, nearly ten years before. The RIAA-certified gold single spent two weeks at No. 3 on the Hot 100 and one week at No. 1 on the Billboard easy listening chart, the singer's fourth song to top this chart. Its success led to Vinton's nickname "the Polish Prince". The song also became the theme-song of The Bobby Vinton Show, Vinton's variety show which ran in Canada on the CTV Network from 1975 to 1978.