Name: Live at the Copa / Drive-In Movie Time
Brand: Gotham Distributors
SKU: 415000
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Live at the Copa / Drive-In Movie Time

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Album: Live at the Copa / Drive-In Movie Time
#	Song Title	Time
1)	Sheik of Araby, The
2)	Oh Marie
3)	If I Ruled the World - (from "Pickwick")
4)	I've Got A Woman / I'm Henry VIII, I Am
5)	Hits Medley: There I've Said It Again / Roses Are Red (My Love) / Washington Square / Blue Velvet
6)	Ya Got Trouble - (from "The Music Man")
7)	International Medley: To Ti Daro Di Piu / C'est Si Bon (It's So Good) / Cuando Caliente El Sol / Hupi Schupi / Hava Nagila
8)	Old MacDonald Medley: Sing Sing Sing / When The Saints Go Marchin' In / The Girl From Ipanema / At The Darktown Strutters Ball
9)	Mr. Lonely
10)	Old Time Medley: If You Knew Suzie / When My Baby Smiles At Me / Some Of These Days / The Yankee Doodle Boy / Rock-A-Bye Your Baby With A Dixie Melody
11)	Bie Mir Bist du Schon (Means That Your Grand)
12)	Chim Chim Cheree
13)	Around the World
14)	Summer Place, A (Theme)
15)	Goldfinger
16)	Moon River
17)	Never on Sunday
18)	More
19)	Where Is Your Heart - (from "Moulin Rouge")
20)	From Russia With Love
21)	Theme From "Harlow"
22)	Exodus Song, The - (from "Exodus")
23)	Dear Heart

Album: Live at the Copa / Drive-In Movie Time
#	Song Title	Time
1)	Sheik of Araby, The
2)	Oh Marie
3)	If I Ruled the World - (from "Pickwick")
4)	I've Got A Woman / I'm Henry VIII, I Am
5)	Hits Medley: There I've Said It Again / Roses Are Red (My Love) / Washington Square / Blue Velvet
6)	Ya Got Trouble - (from "The Music Man")
7)	International Medley: To Ti Daro Di Piu / C'est Si Bon (It's So Good) / Cuando Caliente El Sol / Hupi Schupi / Hava Nagila
8)	Old MacDonald Medley: Sing Sing Sing / When The Saints Go Marchin' In / The Girl From Ipanema / At The Darktown Strutters Ball
9)	Mr. Lonely
10)	Old Time Medley: If You Knew Suzie / When My Baby Smiles At Me / Some Of These Days / The Yankee Doodle Boy / Rock-A-Bye Your Baby With A Dixie Melody
11)	Bie Mir Bist du Schon (Means That Your Grand)
12)	Chim Chim Cheree
13)	Around the World
14)	Summer Place, A (Theme)
15)	Goldfinger
16)	Moon River
17)	Never on Sunday
18)	More
19)	Where Is Your Heart - (from "Moulin Rouge")
20)	From Russia With Love
21)	Theme From "Harlow"
22)	Exodus Song, The - (from "Exodus")
23)	Dear Heart

Performer Notes

2 LPs on 1 CD: LIVE AT THE COPA (w/ The Village Stompers) (1966)/DRIVE-IN MOVIE TIME (1965).
Originally released on Epic.
The two albums combined on this discount-priced reissue are quite different from each other, but they are similar in both being distinct from the bulk of Bobby Vinton's record releases. Programmed in reverse chronological order, Live at the Copa, recorded in June 1966, and Drive-In Movie Time, recorded in May and June 1965, represent different sides of Vinton that were not seen as frequently by his mass audience as his more familiar ballad-singing style, which brought him a string of hit records in the 1960s and '70s. Not surprisingly, neither of them made the charts. To take them in their correct order, Drive-In Movie Time is an album of screen songs no doubt prompted by Vinton's assignment to sing the theme song for the 1965 movie Harlow on the film's soundtrack. He assembled another 11 songs from movies of the late '50s and early '60s, and tried his hand. He is better at some than at others, notably negotiating the Henry Mancini melodies "Moon River" and "Dear Heart" well, but not "GoldFinger," a song that demands something more dramatic than his callow style. Also, some of the songs are better remembered for their melodies than for the lyrics written for them later, which occasionally makes hearing these vocal versions odd. Live at the Copa finds Vinton performing in an overtly show-business style, coming off more as an all-around entertainer than as the boyish singer of "Blue Velvet" and similar hits. He tells jokes, leads singalongs, and performs a wide range of material, from "Hava Nagila" to the patter song "Ya Got Trouble" from The Music Man. On his studio records, Vinton might come off as a soft rock balladeer, but Live at the Copa suggested that deep inside him beat the heart of a Rat Pack wannabe. ~ William Ruhlmann