VIC DAMONE – “On The Street Where You Live”
(27th June 1958)
This was on our University bar jukebox and was a favourite with the rugby boys. They probably liked that massive bellowing erupting chorus: certainly “On The Street’ muscles in hard on your ears. It’s ridiculous but effective - and though to my dainty modern ears Vic is overplaying his hand, the song does capture the random surges of bliss that happen when a romance comes together. “People stop and stare” - maybe he’s singing it in the street! I’m sold, anyhow. Pop styles sometimes get more baroque and bloated as they lose their commercial grip - revivals aside “On The Street” is one of the last of the big crooning ballads to hit the top, a final holdover from the Al Martino era and the charts’ beginning. It swaggers so much you might almost have believed rock and roll hadn’t already won. 5
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liliana sugobono on March 11th, 2008
Vic Damone is a name I always read about in the e mails I receive at my radio program’s site in Lima Perù. People love his style his voice and of course his songs. I wish Vic would be so kind as to send a hello for my radio program. Could you arrange this?Thanks
Liliana Sugobono
Algo muy Especial
Telestereo
Lima Perù
Erithian on March 12th, 2008
Hi Liliana – this website couldn’t arrange a message from Vic Damone, but a quick Google search shows that he has a website - http://www.vicdamone.com – and you can contact him by emailing vic@vicdamone.com . Good luck!
(Tom, how does it feel to know people in Lima are reading this?!)
Tom on March 12th, 2008
When I get a message from Paddington’s Great-Aunt, then I’ll be impressed! :)