RIP Vic Damone

[Baron Scicluna]

"This is gonna be just like last summer. You fell in love with that girl at the Fotomat, you bought forty dollars worth of ****in' film, and you never even talked to her. You don't even own a camera."

-- A line I have used repeatedly on my son, who no longer talks to me about girls he may be interested in.

More like your son is thinking, "what the **** is a Fotomat?"

 

[Baron Scicluna]

Never was able to unload those Rod Stewart or Cheap Trick tickets.

Still didn't have any Blue Oyster Cult, either.

 

[Baron Scicluna]

Poison: Hall of Famers?

The Waner brothers already are in.

 

[DanOregon]

Pop culture note - Damone turned down the lounge singer role in The Godfather out of concern it would upset Sinatra and his buddies.

 

[Buck]

Poison: Hall of Famers?

or
Why does Cheap Trick suck now?

 

[DanOregon]

They're HUGE in Japan.

 

[Buck]

They're HUGE in Japan.

so was Alphaville!

 

[terrier]

2:36-3:17, from last year's Providence Newspaper Guild Follies: we pilched Vic's version of "The Street Where I Live" for a song about a state rep who was forced out of his re-election bid over, well, legal residence issues. (That is a white guy named James Brown playing him; he's known around R.I. as The Hardest Working Linc Chafee Impersonator in Show Business.)

BTW: We're staging our final show, after 44 years (longer than SNL!) on Feb. 23 at the Venus deMilo in Swansea, Mass. Tickets are going fast.

 

[exmediahack]

Pop culture note - Damone turned down the lounge singer role in The Godfather out of concern it would upset Sinatra and his buddies.

That's the fascinating angle to me. He was afraid of the real mob.

 

[cyclingwriter2]

The Waner brothers already are in.

If no one else says it, that was well done.

 

[heyabbott]

They're HUGE in Japan.

So are 14 year old boys from Iowa

 

[hondo]

Pop culture note - Damone turned down the lounge singer role in The Godfather out of concern it would upset Sinatra and his buddies.

Al Martino obviously didn't have the same concerns.