![]() Back then, Vinton had wanted to make “Mr. And he’d recorded it in 1962, in the same session where he’d sung “ Roses Are Red (My Love),” his first #1. Lonely” in the late ’50s, when he was serving as a chaplain’s assistant in the Army. That included one more trip back to #1, with a song that Vinton had recorded back when the Beatles were still playing in Hamburg strip clubs. But people didn’t suddenly stop liking Vinton once the Beatles showed up, and he kept scoring hits all through the ’60s. It seems like Vinton’s chart career should end there, just to mark the historic inflection point. He was everything that Beatlemania was supposed to kill off, and indeed his “ There! I’ve Said It Again” was the last song to hit #1 before the Beatles began carpet-bombing the charts. Vinton was basically early-’60s pop music personified - somehow both a Brylcreemed teen idol and a whitebread big-band revivalist at the same damn time. ![]() Case in point: Bobby Vinton’s ongoing success. In The Number Ones, I’m reviewing every single #1 single in the history of the Billboard Hot 100, starting with the chart’s beginning, in 1958, and working my way up into the present.Įven when it seems like everything changes, everything doesn’t really change.
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