Roses Are Red (album)

Infobox Album | Name = Roses Are Red
Type = Album
Artist = Bobby Vinton
Released = July 1962
Genre = Pop
Length = 32:20
Label = Epic
Producer = Robert Morgan
Last album = "Bobby Vinton Plays for His Li'l Darlin's"
(1961)
This album = "Roses Are Red"
(1962)
Next album = "Bobby Vinton Sings the Big Ones"
(1962)

"Roses Are Red" was Bobby Vinton's third studio album, released in 1962. After Vinton's hit "Roses Are Red (My Love)" reached #1 (and saved Vinton from being fired from Epic Records), the eponymous album was released and made its way up to #5 on the Billboard Hot 200. Shortly after the success of the song and album, Epic renewed Vinton's contract but changed his artist title from a bandleader to a solo artist.

"Roses Are Red (My Love)" is the first track on the album. Cover versions include "Sentimental Me," Cole Porter's "True Love," Roy Orbison's hit "Crying," "If I Give My Heart to You," and five country songs ("I Fall to Pieces," "Have I Told You Lately That I Love You?," "I Can't Stop Loving You," "I Can't Help It," and "Please Help Me, I'm Falling"). Interestingly enough, this album reveals that Vinton's hit "Mr. Lonely" (co-written by Vinton himself) was originally only an album track; its release as a single was not until two years later.

Track listing

ide 1

# Roses Are Red (My Love) - (Paul Evans, Al Byron) - 2:38
# Sentimental Me - (Jimmy Cassin, Jim Morehead) - 2:51
# I Fall to Pieces - (Hank Cochran, Harlan Howard) - 2:49
# Mr. Lonely - (Bobby Vinton, Gene Allan) - 2:40
# Have I Told You Lately That I Love You? - (Scotty Wiseman) - 2:42
# I Can't Stop Loving You - (Don Gibson) - 2:35

ide 2

# I Can't Help It - (Hank Williams) - 2:49
# True Love - (Cole Porter) - 2:19
# Always in My Heart - (Kim Gannon, Ernesto Lecuona) - 2:22
# Crying - (Roy Orbison, Joe Melson) - 2:41
# If I Give My Heart to You - (Jimmy Brewster, Jimmie Crane, Al Jacobs) - 2:36
# Please Help Me, I'm Falling - (Don Robertson, Hal Blair) - 2:33

Album credits

*Produced by: Robert Morgan
*Cover photo: Columbia Records Photo Studio - Henry Parker

Charts

Album - Billboard (North America)

Singles - Billboard (North America)