Vic Damone

[electra225]

"We Kiss In The Shadows" and "Separate Tabes". I have this record, just like it is here, on a 45. Mom won a stack of 10 Columbia 45's on Jim Shelton's "Pick a Pocket" radio show, on WIBC radio in Indianapolis in 1956 or '57. His show was broadcast from the vestibule of the Circle Theater, right on the Monument Circle, in the heart of downtown, Meridian Street. It was a big deal for a farm kid to have your mom on Jim Shelton's show and to win something. It was a couple/three years before I got a record player that would play 45's. That would be the little Truetone I'm restoring as we speak.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-L4oT42ct5A

[walyfd]

I call him Dik Vamone... easy to reverse the letters. He was married to diahann carroll. Apparently they had their share of problems. I think she was the bigger star...

Still a great voice.

[electra225]

Vic Damone records have been elusive for me. I always enjoyed his material. I had forgotten he was married to Diahann Carroll.

[Ken Doyle]

In the mid-1960s, Sinatra was asked who the best singer was. Frank responded that Tony Bennett was the best singer, but Vic Damone had the best pipes.

Here's my favorite Vic Damone record, from 1967, -- "On The South Side of Chicago" which I used to hear on WNEW 1130 AM here in the NY metropolitan area.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjAwYyaizkg

[electra225]

Thanks, Ken. I wouldn't mind to have that record.

[TC Chris]

I'm laughing. When I was a kid, the girls got all dreamy over Vic Damone. WHO??? They never played him on my rock station, WTAC (AM) from Flint. Then I heard a record at a party. Booooring!!!! And elderly, probably on his 30s back then, nearly in retirement. Some artists (Sinatra, Ftzgerald) that I shunned as a kid later grew on me, but I never developed a taste for Vic Damone.

Chris Campbell

[electra225]

Vic Damone and Fabian.

[TC Chris]

Forgot about Fabian. He was forgettable.

Chris Campbell

[Firedome]

I had old fogey taste, even at 15: I liked Robert Goulet, John Gary, Jerry Vale, Johnny Mathis, and their peers, and of course Sinatra, as well as all the stuff my cohort liked, and the classics... I was unusual to say the least.

[electra225]

I pretty much have old fogey tastes myself. I would replace Robert Goulet and Johnny Mathis with Perry Como and Bobby Vinton. Dancing to a different fiddler has rewards people who follow what's popular often miss...

[TC Chris]

Right now I've got Patsy Cline on, an LP ripped to CD. I have liked her from the first time I heard her, even though country music was not favored among my age cohort. My main weirdness was liking big-band music from the 30s and 40s. That was not music chosen by my peers either. Neither is my great fondness for classical music.

The lesson, of course, is twofold. One is that if it sounds good, it is good (Duke Ellington's dictum), at least for that listener. The other is that what makes me cringe may make somebody else ecstatic. I try not to judge, although it's hard when it comes to "heavy metal" or rap or most current commercial pop.

Chris Campbell