VIC DAMONE * STAY WITH ME (COMPLETE LP) * 1966

ABOUT THIS ALBUM

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“Stay With Me“ was an album which was recorded in 1966 by Vic Damone, an American traditional pop and big band singer, actor, radio and television entertainer.

The popularity of Brazilian songs during the early to mid-1960s was a boom to traditional pop singers, who often looked in vain to contemporary American popular songs for material — notably exception including Bacharach and Broadway. Over half of Vic Damone’s gently romantic ‘Stay With Me’ album from 1966 is composed of Brazilian compositions, with the irrepressible Antonio Carlo Jobim accounting for six himself.

All of the choices are obvious ones — “How Insensitive,””Quiet Nights Of Quiet Stars,” “Meditation,” “The Girl From Ipenema,” “Once I Loved,” and the non-Jobin “Pretty Butterfly” — but Damone’s is one of the voices most suited to these soft-toned songs and copacetic charts. Speaking of, Ernie Freeman’s work arranging and conducting doesn’t improve the performances; admittedly, it must’ve been tough making “The Girl From Ipanema” sound new and different, but these charts have a maudlin air that drags down the entire record. (Source: Wikipedia; AllMusic and Discogs)

A MCRFB Note: For the completing track listing for this album GO HERE.

VIC DAMONE REMEMBERED

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Frank Sinatra, of whom American music critic Robert Christgau regarded as “the greatest singer of the 20th Century,” said Damone had “the best set of pipes in the business.”

Vic Damone died on February 11, 2018 from a respiratory illness at the age of 89.