Just diving into the wild, eccentric world of music written by and for David Lynch? We recommend starting with these five tracks.

He has a point about tonal whiplash: The film opens with Bobby Vinton’s schmaltzy recording of the song “Blue Velvet” played over slow-motion scenes of quaint Americana before the camera ...

Taking its title from the classic Bobby Vinton song, Blue Velvet used one of Lynch’s favorite narrative tropes — the detective story — to follow a naive young man (Kyle MacLachlan ...

Blue Velvet is most associated with the Bobby Vinton song of the same title ... to record “She’s a Mystery to Me” for his final album, Mystery Girl. The record came out in 1989, the year ...

The popular 1963 version of "Blue Velvet" by Bobby Vinton, a song Lynch previously said he never really liked, was the seed ...

If you’ve seen Blue Velvet, then you remember the opening ... The camera pans down on a white-picket fence, as Bobby Vinton croons his 1963 version title track. The roses dotting the bottom ...

Named for a love song popularized by Bobby Vinton, “Blue Velvet” starred MacLachlan as a college student who returns to his seemingly idyllic hometown and finds a severed ear in a vacant lot ...