''Bobby Vinton Sings the Big Ones'' is the fourth studio album by

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, released in

1962 The year saw the Cuban Missile Crisis, which is often considered the closest the world came to a Nuclear warfare, nuclear confrontation during the Cold War. Events January * January 1 – Samoa, Western Samoa becomes independent from Ne ...

. There were two singles from this album: "

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" and "I Love You the Way You Are" (the latter written completely by Vinton). Cover versions include " I'm Gettin' Sentimental Over You", " Ramblin' Rose", " The Twelfth of Never", " Because of You", "

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", " My Heart Cries for You", "

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", "

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" and " Autumn Leaves". The song "I Love You The Way You Are" was originally recorded in the late 50s as a demo and left unreleased. After Vinton had a hit with "Roses are Red (My Love)",

Diamond Records Diamond Records was a record label, based in New York City, which was founded in 1961 by former Roulette Records executive Joe Kolsky. Another Roulette exec, Kolsky's brother Phil Kahl, joined Kolsky in the venture the following year. History S ...

purchased the demo and issued it as a single, reaching #38. They didn't even have another Vinton song to use as the B-side, so they put a song by Chuck and Johnny as the flip. Diamond refused to lease the single to Epic for the LP, so Epic had Vinton rerecord the song. The original hit version has never been issued on LP.

Track listing

Personnel

*Robert Morgan - producer *

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- arranger, conductor

Charts

Album - ''Billboard'' (North America) Singles - ''Billboard'' (North America)

References

1962 albums Bobby Vinton albums Epic Records albums {{1960s-rock-album-stub