Artist's albums
Alone Again (Naturally)
1972 · album
A Personal Christmas Collection
1995 · album
Love Me The Way I Love You
1995 · album
The Essence Of Jerry Vale
1994 · album
Greatest Hits
1994 · compilation
Jerry Vale Sings The Great Hits Of Nat King Cole
1972 · album
The Jerry Vale Italian Album
1988 · album
17 Most Requested Songs
1986 · album
I Don't Know How to Love Her
1971 · album
Sings 16 Greatest Hits of the 60's
1970 · compilation
Very Best Of Jerry Vale (Expanded Edition)
2023 · compilation
A Bronx Legend
2021 · album
The Essential Jerry Vale
2017 · album
Free as the Wind (Theme from "Papillon")
1974 · album
Very Best Of Jerry Vale
2003 · compilation
Let It Be
1970 · album
Jerry Vale Sings 16 Greatest Hits Of The 60's
1970 · compilation
Time Alone Will Tell and Today's Great Hits
1967 · album
You Don't Have to Say You Love Me
1967 · album
The Impossible Dream
1967 · album
This Guy's In Love with You
1968 · album
I Hear a Rhapsody
1968 · album
Till
1969 · album
We've Only Just Begun
1969 · album
Where's the Playground Susie (My Way)
1969 · album
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Biography
Jerry Vale's beautiful high-tenor voice graced many of the most enchanting pop songs of the '50s and '60s, including a parade of Italian-American favorites like "Innamorata (Sweetheart)," "Volare," "Amore, Scusami," and his signature song, "Al Di La." Vale, born Genaro Louis Vitaliano in 1932, learned the Italian repertoire from an early age; his mother often sang around the house and trotted out the old songs at extended-family gatherings. While shining shoes at a local barber shop at the age of 11, young Vitaliano began singing popular songs for customers while he worked. He was soon sent to a vocal coach, where he learned piano as well as voice. Over the course of just four years, he'd progressed from school productions to paying gigs to residencies at supper clubs around New York City. After Guy Mitchell caught his set at one club, Jerry Vale began recording demonstration discs for Columbia. When A&R supremo Mitch Miller heard his excellent voice, however, he signed Vale to his own contract. Vale first hit the charts in 1953 with "You Can Never Give Me Back My Heart" (arranged by Percy Faith), and continued during the mid-'50s with "Two Purple Shadows," "I Live Each Day," and his biggest hit, "You Don't Know Me." Though his first explicitly Italian recording, "Innamorata (Sweetheart)," finally appeared in 1956, it wasn't until 1962 that Vale convinced the notoriously conservative Miller to record a full album of Italian songs. I Have But One Heart proved a big seller and was followed one year later by Arrivederci, Roma and a continental LP, The Language of Love, both of which placed even higher than the first on the album charts. Though the mid-'60s were a trying time for traditional pop singers, Vale continued to be successful, with singles like "Have You Looked Into Your Heart" and "For Mama," and Top 40 LPs like There Goes My Heart and It's Magic. And even after his albums began failing to make the charts in the early '70s, Vale remained a popular name in clubs and on television throughout the '70s and '80s. ~ John Bush, Rovi