Melody of Love (Song)

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“Melody of Love” is a popular song. The music was originally written by Hans Engelmann in 1903. The lyrics were added by Tom Glazer in 1954.

Instrumental

Although recorded by Edison Records within a year of its release, the song’s breakthrough came in 1955 with an instrumental version recorded by Billy Vaughn. Other charting versions in 1955 were by David Carroll, by The Four Aces, and by Leo Diamond.

The recording by Billy Vaughn was released by Dot Records as catalog number 15247. It first reached the Billboard Best Seller chart on December 1, 1954, and lasted 27 weeks on the chart, peaking at #2.

The recording by David Carroll was released by Mercury Records as catalog number 70516. It first reached the Billboard Best Seller chart on December 29, 1954, and lasted 17 weeks on the chart, peaking at #9. This was Carroll’s only hit on the Billboard best seller chart.

Carroll version, featuring a narration by Paul Tremaine, was released on Mercury 70521. This version was shown as a best-selling version in Cashbox for most of “Melody Of Love”‘s extensive chart run.

The instrumental recording by Leo Diamond was released by RCA Victor Records as catalog number 20-5973. It reached the Billboard Best Seller chart on February 9, 1955, its only week on the chart, at #30. With so many versions, the Cash Box chart, which combined all versions of a song, had a much higher standing for the song than Billboard, and the song was a #1 hit for 7 weeks there.

Version with lyrics by Tom Glazer

Tom Glazer supplied lyrics to the song in 1954, which begin: “Hold me in your arms, dear. Dream with me. Cradled by your kisses. Tenderly While a choir of angels. From above. Sings our melody of love.”

The recording of Glazer’s version by vocal quartet The Four Aces was released by Decca Records as catalog number 29395. It first reached the Billboard Best Seller chart on January 12, 1955, and lasted 17 weeks on the chart, peaking at #11.

A solo sung version by Frank Sinatra with band led by Ray Anthony was released.

In the United Kingdom, a version by the Ink Spots was the sole hit version, charting at #10.

It was also recorded by the Beverley Sisters

and Shirley Wilson.

Jim Reeves posthumously brought the song the country charts as “Why Do I Love You (Melody Of Love)” in late 1969-early 1970.

Unrelated songs

In 1957 a song unrelated, except by title, by The Ames Brothers, “Melodie D’Amour” (Melody Of Love) charted at #5.

Other recorded versions

• Stanley Black

• Pat Boone & Shirley Boone for their album Side by Side (1959).

• Bing Crosby recorded the song in 1955 for use on his radio show and it was subsequently included in the box set The Bing Crosby CBS Radio Recordings (1954-56) issued by Mosaic Records (catalog MD7-245) in 2009.
• The Four Aces

• Connie Francis – for her album Greatest American Waltzes (1963)

• Gatlin Brothers

• Spike Jones

• Pee Wee King & His Golden West Cowboys

• Wayne King

• The Lennon Sisters

• Hank Locklin

• Al Martino – for his album My Cherie (1965).

• The McGuire Sisters

• Moms & Dads
• Patti Page – for her album I’ve Heard That Song Before (1958).

• Dinah Shore and Tony Martin (1954)

• Brad Swanson
• Slim Whitman

• Roger Williams

• Lawrence Welk

• Stu Buchanan & His Group

See also

• My Melody of Love, a pop single by Bobby Vinton.

My Melody of Love (Song)

Not to be confused with Melody of Love.

“My Melody of Love” is the title of a popular song from 1974 (see 1974 in music) by the American singer Bobby Vinton. Vinton adapted his song from a German schlager song composed by Henry Mayer, and it appears on Vinton’s album Melodies of Love. The song was also recorded by Spanish pop singer Karina as “Palabras de Cristal”.

Vinton came up with the idea to adapt Mayer’s song while performing in Las Vegas, Nevada. The original song was called “Herzen haben keine Fenster” (“Hearts have no windows”) and was a hit in Germany and Austria as performed by Austrian singer Elfi Graf.

A version with newly written English lyrics, released as a single called “Don’t Stay Away Too Long” by the British duo Peters and Lee earlier in 1974, failed to chart in the US but reached number three on the UK Singles Chart.

Vinton’s lyrics use a refrain that switches between English and Polish:

Moja droga, ja cię kocham,
Means that I love you so.
Moja droga, ja cię kocham,
More than you’ll ever know.
Kocham ciebie całym sercem,
Love you with all my heart.

“My Melody of Love” was Vinton’s highest charting US pop hit since “Mr. Lonely” reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1964, nearly ten years before.

The RIAA-certified gold single spent two weeks at number three on the Hot 100 chart in November 1974 and one week at number one on the Billboard easy listening chart, the singer’s fourth song to top this chart. Its success led to Vinton’s nickname “the Polish Prince”.

The song also became the theme-song of The Bobby Vinton Show, Vinton’s variety show which ran in Canada on the CTV Network from 1975 to 1978. The song was also performed numerous times on the Lawrence Welk Show during the mid- to late-1970s.

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

My Melody Of Love Covers

• Ray Conniff

• Helen Gamboa

• Liberace

• Floyd Cramer

• Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra

• Frank Yankovic

Melodies of Love (Album)

Professional ratings

Review scores
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Allmusic

Melodies of Love is Bobby Vinton‘s twenty-fourth studio album and his first studio album for ABC Records. It was released in 1974.

The album was released in response to popular demand, following Vinton’s million-selling single “My Melody of Love“, his first single in two years, which proved a successful comeback and earned Vinton the nickname “the Polish Prince”. After the song became a #3 hit on the Billboard Hot 100 and a #1 adult contemporary hit, the semi-eponymous album was released, reaching #16 on the Billboard Hot 200 list of popular albums and going gold.

“My Melody of Love” is the first track on the album and is the album’s highest charting single. Cover versions include Olivia Newton-John‘s hit “I Honestly Love You“, Alice Faye‘s “You’ll Never Know” and Al Martino‘s “Here in My Heart“. The sixth track, “Am I Losing You”, is a reworking of the Italian song “Io ti darò di più” with a few English lyrics replacing some of the Italian lyrics.

Track listing

1. “My Melody of Love” (Bobby Vinton, Henry Mayer) – 3:08

2. “I Honestly Love You” (Peter Allen, Jeff Barry) – 3:25

3. “You’ll Never Know” (Mack Gordon, Harry Warren) – 2:40

4. “Dick and Jane” (Dewayne Blackwell) – 3:15

5. “Never Ending Song of Love” (Delaney Bramlett) – 2:57

6. “Am I Losing You” (Bobby Vinton, Alberto Testa, Memo Remigi) – 3:00

7. “The Most Beautiful Girl” (Norro Wilson, Billy Sherrill, Rory Michael Bourke) – 2:27

8. “My Gypsy Love” (Bobby Vinton) – 3:12

9. “I’ll Be Loving You” (Bobby Vinton, Gene Allan) – 2:46

10. “Here in My Heart” (Pat Genaro, Lou Levinson, Bill Borrelli) – 2:43

11. “I Want to Spend My Life With You” (Larry Weiss, John Williams) – 3:07

Personnel

• Al Capps – arranger
• Mike Melvoin – arranger
• Joe Reisman – arranger
• Ernie Freeman – arranger
• Jim “Dallas” Crouch – drums, vocals
• Armin Steiner – engineer
• Tommy Vicari – engineer
• Michael Lietz – engineer
• Ray Gerhart – engineer
• John Wagner – engineer
• Barry Keene – engineer
• Tim Bryant – album design
• Mia Beard – photography

Charts

Album – Billboard (North America)

Singles – Billboard (North America)

Covers

• Mireille Mathieu covered the song as “Ma melodie d’amour” in France.(1975)

• Melody of Love (Wanna Be Loved), a pop single by Donna Summer.

Melody of Love (Wanna Be Loved) (Song)

“Melody of Love (Wanna Be Loved)” is a song by American singer and songwriter Donna Summer. It was released on October 31, 1994 by Mercury Records and Casablanca Records as a new track and the lead single for her 1994 hits compilation album, Endless Summer: Donna Summer’s Greatest Hits. The song was written by Summer, David Cole, Robert Clivillés and Joe Carrano, and produced by Summer and Welcome Productions. It just missed the top 20 in the United Kingdom and was a top-40 hit in Belgium. The song was formed with several remixes and was her tenth number one hit on the US Billboard Hot Dance Club Songs chart. In Australia, the single peaked at number 79 in December 1994.^[3] It was awarded the ASCAP Dance Song of the Year prize in 1996.

Critical reception

Alex Henderson from AllMusic complimented Summer, that “still sounds incredibly fresh” on the song. Larry Flick from Billboard stated that it “proves that her voice is stronger now than ever.” He added, “She soars with spine-tingling power over a pop–house arrangement that nicks an idea or two from several of her vintage disco hits, while injecting a modern house sensibility that ensures active club exposure.” In his weekly UK chart commentary, James Masterton described it as a “rather anodyne piece of disco”. Pan-European magazine Music & Media remarked that co-written by David Cole and Robert Clivillés, “Summer returns to ’70s disco which first made her famous. Vocally taking untenable hurdles, she could be Whitney‘s twin sis.”

Alan Jones from Music Week gave the song four out of five, commenting, “Simple piano chords and muted horns usher in Donna’s first for a while, but it’s just the calm before the storm, as the song explodes in contemporary house style, with pumping bass and her extraordinary voice as durable as ever.” James Hamilton from the Record Mirror Dance Update declared it as a “typical vintage style but apparently brand new David Cole co-composed song”. Jordan Paramor from Smash Hits opined that ‘Melody of Love’ “begins as a lurvely ballad, but blink and it’s metamorphosed into another boppy bundle of disco pap.”

Music video

A music video was produced to promote the single, directed by South African director and writer Ralph Ziman. It features Summer in a black dress singing the song and dancing on a balcony. There are musical notes disclaimed under the song’s lyrics throughout the video. Other scenes show four dancing men, accompanied with saxophonists, pianist and violinists. David Morales’ Classic Club Radio Edit was used in the video.

Track listings

• UK CD single

1. “Melody of Love (Wanna Be Loved)” (Épris Mix) – 8:33
2. “Melody of Love (Wanna Be Loved)” (AJ Humpty’s Mix) – 8:46
3. “Melody of Love (Wanna Be Loved)” (Mijangos Powertools Trip #1) – 5:55
4. “Melody of Love (Wanna Be Loved)” (Classic Club Mix) – 8:04

• US CD maxi-single

1. “Melody of Love (Wanna Be Loved)” (Original Version) – 4:16
2. “Melody of Love (Wanna Be Loved)” (Classic Club Mix) – 8:03
3. “Melody of Love (Wanna Be Loved)” (Boss Mix) – 6:58
4. “Melody of Love (Wanna Be Loved)” (Épris Mix) – 8:33
5. “Melody of Love (Wanna Be Loved)” (AJ & Humpty’s Anthem Mix) – 8:46
6. “Melody of Love (Wanna Be Loved)” (Épris Radio Mix) – 4:14
7. “On the Radio – 5:50
8. “The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire)” – 4:20

• Australian CD maxi-single

1. “Melody of Love (Wanna Be Loved)” (Original Version) – 4:16
2. “Melody of Love (Wanna Be Loved)” (Classic Club Mix) – 8:03
3. “Melody of Love (Wanna Be Loved)” (Boss Mix) – 6:58
4. “Melody of Love (Wanna Be Loved)” (Épris Mix) – 8:33
5. “Melody of Love (Wanna Be Loved)” (AJ & Humpty’s Anthem Mix) – 8:46
6. “Melody of Love (Wanna Be Loved)” (Épris Radio Mix) – 4:14
7. “On the Radio – 5:50
8. “The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire)” – 4:20

Charts

Weekly charts

Weekly chart performance for “Melody of Love (Wanna Be Loved)”

Year-end charts

Year-end chart performance for “Melody of Love (Wanna Be Loved)”

Melody of Love or Melodies of Love may refer to:

Film and television

• The Melody of Love, a 1912 American silent short film
• Melody of Love (1928 film), an American romantic musical film
• Melody of Love (1932 film), a German operetta film directed by Georg Jacoby
• Melody of Love (1952 film), an Italian film
• Melody of Love (TV series), a 2013 South Korean daily drama series

Music

Songs:

• “Melody of Love”, a 2019 song by Hot Chip

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