VIC DAMONE – “On The Street Where You Live”
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.
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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
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?!)
When I get a message from Paddington’s Great-Aunt, then I’ll be impressed! :)
Light entertainment watch: Vic Damone is well represented in the TV archives. Of the shows on this list, only ‘Talk Of The Town’ didn’t survive;
KAREN KAY: with Vic Damone (1984)
LIVE FROM THE PALLADIUM: with Bruce Forsyth, Vic Damone, Hinge & Bracket, Roy Walker (1987)
THE TALK OF THE TOWN: with Vic Damone (1969)
TARBY AND FRIENDS: with Vic Damone, Les Dennis, Frank Carson, Grace Kennedy (1986)
THE VAL DOONICAN MUSIC SHOW: with Val Sings Bing, Vic Damone, Marti Webb, Dickie Henderson (1981)
THE VAL DOONICAN MUSIC SHOW: with Vic Damone, Barbara Dickson (1981)
VAL PARNELL’S SPECTACULAR: The Vic Damone Show (1958)
VIC DAMONE (1985)
WOGAN: with Vic Damone, Diahann Carroll, Frank Carson, Taylor Dayne, Carey Wallace (1990)
Jeremy Brett sung this in the film but I think they dubbed him (and not with Marni Nixon). No shit, Sherlock!
Gorgeous melody but I do find Vic’s approach a bit overly bombastic. I suppose it does evoke the “overpowering feeling” he describes, but personally I prefer Nat King Cole’s more understated take on it.