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100 Memories

album of Bobby Vinton

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 11, 2026
Entity authorityQ3825667
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100 Memories is the thirty-first studio album of Bobby Vinton, released in 1979 by the Canadian label Ahed. This album is a cover album of 100 songs from the 1950s to 1970s and contains two LPs. While the album contains 100 songs, they are all recorded as medleys: 1 - 4, 5 - 9, 10 - 14, 15 - 19, 20 - 24, 25 - 28, 29 - 33, 34 - 38, 39 - 42, 43 - 47, 48 - 51, 52 - 56, 57 - 61, 62 - 66, 67 - 71, 72 - 75, 76 - 80, 81 - 85, 86 - 90, 91 - 95, and 96 through 100.

Track listing

Disc 1

Moments to Remember / Love Letters in the Sand / Where or When / See You in September (Robert Allen, Al Stillman / J. Fred Coots, Nick Kenny, Charles Kenny / Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart / Sid Wayne, Sherman Edwards)

Blueberry Hill / Only You (And You Alone) / Young Love / (They Long to Be) Close to You / I Love You Because (Vincent Rose, Larry Stock, Al Lewis / Buck Ram / Ric Cartey, Carole Joyner / Burt Bacharach, Hal David / Joshua Salzman, Ryan Cunninghan)

Just the Way You Are / Save the Last Dance For Me / Never My Love / The Most Beautiful Girl / I Can See Clearly Now (Billy Joel / Doc Pomus, Mort Shuman / Donald Adrissi, Richard Adrissi / Bill Sherrill, Norris Wilson, Rory Bourke / Johnny Nash)

A Taste of Honey / You're Sixteen / Bad, Bad Leroy Brown / Happy Together / Sweet Caroline (Bobby Scott, Ric Marlow / Richard M. Sherman, Robert B. Sherman / Jim Croce / Gary Boner, Alan Gordon / Neil Diamond)

Love Me Tender / You Send Me / Sincerely / Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing / Everybody Loves Somebody (Vera Matson, Elvis Presley / Sam Cooke / Harvey Fuqua, Alan Freed / Paul Francis Webster, Sammy Fain / Ken Lane, Sam Coslow, Irving Taylor)

Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree / Oh, Babe, What Would You Say? / All My Loving / You Are the Sunshine of My Life (L. Russell Brown, Irwin Levine / Elieen Sylvia Smith / John Lennon, Paul McCartney / Stevie Wonder)

Red Roses for a Blue Lady / Have I Told You Lately That I Love You / Paper Roses / A White Sport Coat (And a Pink Carnation) / Anytime (Roy C. Bennett, Sid Tepper / Scotty Wiseman / Fred Spielman, Janice Torre / Marty Robbins / Herbert "Happy" Lawson)

It's All in the Game / Twilight Time / To Each His Own / When I Fall in Love / I'll Be Seeing You (Charles Dawes, Carl Sigman / Buck Ram / Jay Livingston, Ray Evans / Edward Heyman, Victor Young / Sammy Fain, Irving Kahal)

Love Story / Killing Me Softly With Her Song / I Left My Heart in San Francisco / The Way We Were (Francis Lai, Carl Sigman / Charles Fox, Norman Gimbel / George Cory, Douglass Cross / Alan and Marilyn Bergman, Marvin Hamlisch)

Can't Take My Eyes off of You / The Look of Love / Sunny / Love Will Keep Us Together / Will You Love Me Tomorrow (Bob Gaudio, Bob Crewe / Burt Bacharach, Hal David / Bobby Hebb / Neil Sedaka, Howard Greenfield / Gerry Goffin, Carole King)

Are You Lonesome Tonight / You Light Up My Life / Three Times a Lady / Always (Lou Handman, Roy Turk / Joseph Brooks / Lionel Richie / Irving Berlin)

Disc 2

Chances Are / Nevertheless (I'm in Love with You) / You Belong to Me / Mona Lisa / Hey Jude (Robert Allen, Al Stillman / Bert Kalmar, Harry Ruby / Pee Wee King, Redd Stewart, Chilton Price / Jay Livingston, Ray Evans / John Lennon, Paul McCartney)

Song Sung Blue / Tiny Bubbles / Everything Is Beautiful / Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head / Ramblin' Rose (Neil Diamond / Martin Denny, Leon Poeller / Ray Stevens / Burt Bacharach, Hal David / Joel Sherman, Noel Sherman)

King of the Road / Take Me Home, Country Roads / Top of the World / I'm Henry VIII, I Am / Let Me Be There (Roger Miller / Bill Danoff, Taffy Nivert, John Denver / John Bettis, Richard Carpenter / R. P. Weston, Fred Murray / John Rostill)

Breaking Up Is Hard to Do / Yesterday / Since I Fell for You / Born to Lose / How Can You Mend a Broken Heart (Neil Sedaka, Howard Greenfield / John Lennon / Paul McCartney / Buddy Johnson / Unknown / Barry Gibb, Maurice Gibb)

Too Young / Unchained Melody / Cry / Can't Help Falling in Love (Sylvia Dee, Sidney Lippman / Alex North, Hy Zaret / Churchill Kohlman / Hugo Peretti, Luigi Creatore George David Weiss)

Volare (Nel Blu Di Pinto Di Blu) / Singing the Blues / Standing on the Corner / I Want to Hold Your Hand / Hello, Dolly!

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The public source identifies “100 Memories” as album of Bobby Vinton. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Memories, album and Bobby.

Editorial reviewBest approached as a cultural-object dossier: authorship and date matter, but circulation and reception often explain the wider significance. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1979—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1979. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Memories, album and Bobby providing the first useful test.
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