I saw an Elvis Presley movie Jailhouse Rock, where he gets out of jail and makes his own records and takes them to the radio stations himself. And then, he puts records in the store. After seeing that, I made records an put them in stores.

A gold album Melodies of Love followed as well as more Top 40 pop hits ("Beer Barrel Polka" and "Dick And Jane" in 1975) a successful half-hour variety show The Bobby Vinton Show (which aired from 1975 to 1978) which used "My Melody of Love" as its theme song; ABC Records subsequently released an album of songs performed on the show. Undeterred Vinton spent $50000 of his own money on a self-written song sung partially in Polish: "My Melody of Love". Twenty-three years later David Lynch named his movie Blue Velvet after the song.

His most popular song "Blue Velvet" was a cover of the The Clovers' 1950s song that served as inspiration for a film of the same name as well as one of the most popular covers of the song when it peaked at No. 1 on the now renamed Billboard Pop Singles Chart. Bobby Vinton (born April 16 1935) is an American pop music singer of Polish ethnic background.