Wednesday, September 13, 2017

"Roses Are Red (My Love)" #1 7/14/1962

Back to 1962 we go! Bobby Vinton was on the verge of being dropped by Epic Records as he had released two albums with zero success. Bobby found this song in a reject pile and had to do his own promotion of the single. So he kept 1,000 copies and hired a pretty female to deliver them (along with a dozen roses each) to his hometown Pittsburgh-area radio stations. It worked, and this became the first of his four #1's.


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