The received-wisdom history of pop music is that things were shitty before ... In a lot of ways, Bobby Vinton was the antithesis of everything that the Beatles were. He was a presentable and ...

Case in point: Bobby Vinton’s ongoing success. Vinton was basically early-’60s pop music personified — somehow both a Brylcreemed teen idol and a whitebread big-band revivalist at the same ...