Bobby Vinton
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Stanley Robert Vinton is a retired American singer and actor, who hosted his own self-titled TV show in the late 1970s. As a teen idol, he became known as "The Polish Prince", as his music paid tribut
Vinton in 1964
Billboard advertisement, September 14, 1963
Vinton performing on The Ed Sullivan Show in 1969
Vinton in 1977
Canonsburg, Pennsylvania
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Canonsburg is a borough in Washington County, Pennsylvania, United States, 18 miles southwest of Pittsburgh. The population was 9,735 at the 2020 census. Canonsburg was laid out by Colonel John Canon
Bobby Vinton
…by Tony Bennett) which reached No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1963, No. 1 in Canada (5 weeks), and number 2 in the UK in 1990. Vinton was born in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania, the only child of locally popular bandleader Stan Vinton and Dorothy Studzinski Vinton. He is of Polish and Lithuanian descent. The family surname was…
West Pike Street near the intersection of North Jefferson Avenue
Original plots laid by Colonel John Canon
John McMillan's Log School, built in the 1780s
Pike Street in the Canonsburg Fourth of July parade