Vic Damone was one of the significant coterie of Italian American crooners to come to the fore in the post-war years to play a significant role in the popular music of the time - that group included the likes of Frank Sinatra, Perry Como, Dean Martin, Al Martino, Frankie Laine and Tony Bennett, so he was in illustrious company. Having got his break, like so many artists, on Arthur Godfreys' Talent Scouts show, he signed with Mercury in 1947 and over the next fifteen years racked up around fifty hits in the Billboard, Cash Box and UK charts, scoring a US No. 1 in 1949 with "You're Breaking My Heart" and a UK No. 1 in 1956 with "On The Street Where You Live" after he had moved to the Columbia label. This great value 50-track 2-CD set features 48 tracks which are listed as having made the charts, with many making the Top 10, including "I Have But One Heart", "Again", "My Heart Cries For You", "Here In My Heart" and many more. It's a great showcase for a talented and highly successful vocalist whose records captured the essence of the popular music of the times.
6 Say Something Sweet to Your Sweetheart (With Patti Page)
7 Again
8 You're Breaking My Heart
9 Four Winds and Seven Seas
10 My Bolero
11 Why Was I Born?
12 Sitting By the Window
13 God's Country
14 Vagabond Shoes
15 Tzena, Tzena, Tzena
16 I Love That Girl
17 Just Say I Love Her
18 Cincinnati Dancing Pig
19 Can Anyone Explain? (No! No! No!)
20 Marshmallow World
21 Music By the Angels
22 My Heart Cries for You
23 If
24 Tell Me You Love Me
25 My Truly, Truly Fair
- Disc 2 -
1 My Life's Desire
2 Longing for You
3 Wonder Why (With Jane Powell)
4 Calla Calla
5 Jump Through the Ring
6 Here in My Heart
7 Take My Heart
8 Rosanne
9 Sugar
10 April in Portugal
11 Eternally (The Song from 'Limelight')
12 Ebb Tide
13 A Village in Peru
14 Stranger in Paradise
15 The Breeze and I
16 The Sparrow Sings
17 Por Favor
18 On the Street Where You Live
19 War and Peace
20 Do I Love You (Because You're Beautiful)
21 An Affair to Remember (Our Love Affair)
22 Gigi
23 The Only Man on the Island
24 The Night Has a Thousand Eyes
25 What Kind of Fool Am I?
Vic Damone was one of the significant coterie of Italian American crooners to come to the fore in the post-war years to play a significant role in the popular music of the time - that group included the likes of Frank Sinatra, Perry Como, Dean Martin, Al Martino, Frankie Laine and Tony Bennett, so he was in illustrious company. Having got his break, like so many artists, on Arthur Godfreys' Talent Scouts show, he signed with Mercury in 1947 and over the next fifteen years racked up around fifty hits in the Billboard, Cash Box and UK charts, scoring a US No. 1 in 1949 with "You're Breaking My Heart" and a UK No. 1 in 1956 with "On The Street Where You Live" after he had moved to the Columbia label. This great value 50-track 2-CD set features 48 tracks which are listed as having made the charts, with many making the Top 10, including "I Have But One Heart", "Again", "My Heart Cries For You", "Here In My Heart" and many more. It's a great showcase for a talented and highly successful vocalist whose records captured the essence of the popular music of the times.
