60s teen idol/crooner Bobby Vinton sings his rendition of the title song "Blue Velvet" (a song of longing for a woman, written by Lee Morris and Bernie Wayne).Since the uncompromising and decadent film is essentially an engrossing character study of unscrupulous, unattractive men in he artificial world of media power, phenomenal performances are derived from the two domineering and repugnant male leads - Burt Lancaster and Tony Curtis (in a breakthrough role with his greatest career performance).It is one of the greatest romantic earjerkers/weepers of all time, with a very downbeat ending.Lean's film is a simple but realistically-honest, unsentimental, self-told social melodrama of the quiet desperation involved in an illicit, extra-marital love affair between two married, middle-class individuals over seven weekly meetings, mostly against the backdrop of a railway station.Tardy and on her way to pick up Earl, she doesn't even notice the bashful and surprised George sitting in a high-backed chair:Angela: Course I'm always late.