Vic Damone

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Vic Damone (born Vito Rocco Farinola, 1928 – February 11, 2018) was an American traditional pop and big band singer, actor, radio and television host, and entertainer.

He is best known for his performances of hits like "You're Breaking My Heart" and "I Have But One Heart," among other hits such as "You're Breaking My Heart" (from My Fair Lady) and "I Have But One Heart."

Life and work

Damone was born in Brooklyn, New York, to Rocco and Mamie (Damone) Farinola, Italian emigrants from Bari, Italy. His father was an electrician and his mother taught piano, and he taught piano. Doretta Morrow, the actress and singer, was his cousin. Damone began taking voice lessons after being inspired by his favorite singer, Frank Sinatra. For Sunday Mass under organist Anthony Amorello, he appeared in the choir at St. Finbar's Church in Bath Beach, Brooklyn.

Damone had to drop out of Lafayette High School after his father was hospitalized at work. At the Paramount Theater in Manhattan, he served as an usher and elevator operator.

When attending the Paramount Theater, Damone met Perry Como. Damone escorted the elevator between floors and performed for him. Como was captivated and referred to a friend for a role.

When he was 17, he appeared on the Gloom Dodgers show, which provided light entertainment to Brooklyn Dodgers fans. At the suggestion of a regular on the show, comedian Morey Amsterdam, he changed his name.

In April 1947, Damone joined Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts and won. He became a regular on Godfrey's show, which led him to him becoming a regular on the show. Berle met Milton Berle in the studio and Berle got him to work at two night clubs. Damone had signed a Mercury Records deal by mid-1947.

"I Have But One Heart," his first album, debuted on Billboard's top-ten. "You Do" hit the same high as "You Do" did. A number of other hits were followed by these. He got his own weekly radio show, Saturday Night Serenade, in 1948.

In 1949, he was admitted to the Mocambo nightclub on the Sunset Strip, residing briefly at the Strip's historic Garden of Allah Hotel. In April 1949, he made his television debut on The Morey Amsterdam Show starring Cole Porter's "So in Love." He made his first appearance on Ed Sullivan's Toast of the Town in January 1950, including a duet, first of many with the vocalist and future TV hostess Dinah Shore. He was a regular guest on every major variety show on television for the next 30 years. 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Damone appeared in two films, The Strip, where he appeared, and Rich, Young, and Pretty in 1951. He spent a year in Germany with the 7729th Special Services Group and eight months in Fort Sam Houston, Texas, from 1951 to 1953. He had a collection of songs that had been released at the time before entering the service. He appeared on Al Evans, a future Northwest Indiana radio personality, and country music singer Johnny Cash. After leaving the service, he married Pier Angeli (Anna Maria Pierangeli) in 1954 and directed two films, Deep in My Heart and Athena. In 1955, he appeared in Kismet as the Caliph. In 1960, he had a dramatic part in the war film Hell to Eternity.

Damone had one song on the charts, "Por Favor," but it did not make it top 73. However, he did appear in two major film revues, Hit the Deck and Kismet. He went from Mercury to Columbia Records in early 1956, and gained a lot of success on the label, including hits such as "On the Street Where You Live" (from My Fair Lady, his final pop top 10) and "An Affair to Remember" (from the movie of the same name). Angela Mia's six original Columbia albums from 1957 to 1961 included That Towering Feeling, This Game of Love, On the Swingin' Side, Young and Lively.

He was released by Columbia in 1961. He filled the void left by Frank Sinatra's departure to assist in the establishment of Reprise Records, heading to Capitol Records. He was at Capitol only until 1965; however, he released some of his most well-regarded albums there, including two that made the Billboard chart, Linger Awhile with Vic Damone and The Lively Ones, the former with arrangements by Billy Mayone, who also produced another of Damone's Capitol albums, Strange Enchantment. My Baby Loves To Swing, The Liveliest, and On the Street Where You Live are two other original Capitol albums.

In the early 1960s, Damone did not do much acting on television. In the 1960 episode "Piano Man" of CBS's The DuPont Show with June Allyson, Stan Skylar appeared. In the ABC Western series The Rebel's 1961 episode "The Proxy," starring Nick Adams, Jess Wilkerson appeared as Jess Wilkerson. Ric Vallone, a crooner, appeared in "Like a Sister" on CBS' The Dick Van Dyke Show in 1962, where he performed "The Most Beautiful Girl in the World" during which he appeared. Damone hosted The Lively Ones, a television variety series that showcased current jazz, pop, and folk artists as well as comedians in the summers of 1962 and 1963. Count Basie, Louie Bellson, Dave Brubeck, Chris Connor, Matthew Connor, Frances Faye, Ella Fitzgerald, Monty Hayne, Connor, Matt Dennis, Eunice Brubeck, Matt Dennis, Dizzy Gillespie, Woody Herman, Stan Kenton, Peggy Lee, Nellie Lutcher, Ruth Olay, and Oscar Peterson were among his musical guests over two seasons.

On CBS's The Judy Garland Exhibition, Damone's other notable television work during this period included three guest appearances from 1963 to 1964. He appeared on UK television, and on other programmes on The Tommy Cooper Hour Christmas special in 1974. Garland and he performed duet medleys of songs from Porgy and Bess, West Side Story, and Kismet in addition to his solo appearances.

During the Indianapolis 500 car race in 1964, he sang "Back Home Again in Indiana."

Damone's next move was to Warner Bros. Records with the albums You Were Only Fooling and Country Love Songs. "You Were Only Fooling (When I Was Falling In Love)" was Warner Bros.'s one top-100 chart hit: "You Were Only Fooling (While I Was In Love). He shifted to RCA Victor and releasing the albums Keeping With Me, Why Can't I Walk Away, On the South Side of Chicago, and The Damone Type of Thing were among the many new music companies this year. The Dean Martin Summer Show, which was revived in 1971, was held in 1967. He died in 1969, his last US chart entry, a cover of the 1966 song "To Make A Big Man Cry," which made the Billboard Easy Listening chart.

He appeared on Firestone's Christmas album, "It Came Upon A Midnight Clear" and "Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas" in 1965.

Damone began working in Las Vegas casinos in 1971, and though he had to declare bankruptcy in the early 1970s, he was still earning enough money to resolve his financial troubles. He appeared on both the United States and the United Kingdom, as well as recording more albums for RCA Records. In the United Kingdom, he appeared on Tommy Cooper's Christmas Special television show in 1974.

Damone was given the role of Johnny Fontane in The Godfather in 1972, but when Francis Ford Coppola became producer Al Martino and wanted Damone to portray Fontane, he was turned down. Martino says he went to Russell Bufalino, his godfather and a crime manager, who later orchestrated the publication of several news articles claiming that Coppola was unaware of Martino's being nominated for the part. Damone resigned because of a salary dispute, but also because he did not want to provoke the crowd or enrage Frank Sinatra, whom Damone profoundly respected. Johnny Fontane's role was eventually gifted to Martino.

During Super Bowl XXV's broadcast in January, 1991, Damone appeared in a television commercial for Diet Pepsi's first broadcast. "You've Got the Right One Baby (Uh-Huh)" was performed by Ray Charles by Damone and other actors, including Jerry Lewis, Tiny Tim, Charo, and Bo Jackson.

Damone's last album was released in 2002, but several of his previous albums were repackaged and reissued. Vic and his son, Perry Damone, wanted to sell some previously unreleased data in 2003 and formed Vintage Records. He had intended to launch The Vic Damone Signature Collection, a 7 CD collection, but Perry and Frank Sinclair also published Volume 1, which was released in May 2003. Vic released his second CD in the Signature Series in May 2004, which was also produced by Perry and Sinclair. Damone decided to delay the release of the remainder of the collection since it was first revealed. 2,000 songs were recorded over his entire career. Following the introduction of Vic Damone's website www.vicdamone.com in 2002, he attracted new followers. Damone's uncle Perry and Sinclair were the site's administrator, but Damone's son-in-law William "Bill" Karant later took over the site, eventually managed by Damone's son-in-law.

Damone made one of his last public performances at the Raymond F. Kravis Center for the Performing Arts in Palm Beach, Florida, on January 19, 2002. Damone died after suffering a stroke the previous year and then retired. Damone did, however, step out of retirement on January 22, 2011, when he first performed at the Kravis Performing Arts Center in Palm Beach to a sold-out crowd. He dedicated this performance to his six grandchildren, who had never seen him perform live. "I don't need the money," Damone said. But, you should know, my six grandkids have never seen me on stage. It will be the first time. I'll post them. It's going to be exciting for me. "I want them to have seen me perform at least once before I die."

Chris Tucker's character appears in Brett Ratner's film Money Talks as Vic Damone's commercial and then pretends to be Damone's son. Perry, Vic's real-life son, had some laughs about the "15 minutes of fame" and made mention of it on his midday radio show on Phoenix radio station KEZ.

Vic Damone's autobiography Singing Was the Singing Was the Quick Part From St. Martin's Press on June 12, 2009. Damone wrote a book in which he was discovered hangling out of a window of a New York hotel by a "thug." Damone said he was attracted to the thug's daughter but ended the relationship when she insulted Damone's mother. During a Mafia meeting to decide the singer's fate, he wrote that his life was spared. Frank Costello, the former boss of the New York mob, ruled in Damone's favour.

After a performance, Damone named Canadian crooner Michael Bublé "cocky" and chastised him for smoking and drinking "straight alcohol," fearing that doing so would damage his vocal cords. Bublé responded by saying he knew what he was doing but that he would always mix his alcohol with soda or orange juice from now on.

In 2020, Damone appeared in one of a string of interviews for the documentary Jay Sebring... Down to the truth.

Personal life

In 2002, Damone had a stroke and another in 2008. He recovered from both extremes and lived until 2018. Damone was married five times and divorced four:

Damone's children had six grandchildren (Tate, Paige, Sloane, Rocco, Daniella Grant).

Pier Angeli, Damone's first wife, had previously worked closely with James Dean but was forced to leave him to marry Damone, a development that attracted a lot of national attention. Dean was seen on his motorcycle riding his bike, even shooting the engine during the wedding, but Dean later denied doing anything so "dumb." Damone, a six-year divorced man, was arrested on October 15, 1964, on the suspicion of abducting their 9-year-old son Perry (named for Perry Como) and taking him from New York to Los Angeles. He was released three hours later after having pleaded not guilty to being a criminal fugitive from a kidnapping charge. A California judge has been given custody of Perry at the same time. Angeli later gained custody of Perry and left Hollywood for her native Italy, taking Perry with her. Perry, on the other hand, returned to California following Angeli's death. Perry died of lymphoma at the age of 59 on December 9, 2014.

Diahann Carroll married her in 1987. Carroll, who admitted to being turbulent, went through a court break in 1991, reconciliation, and divorce in 1996.

Damone was raised Roman Catholic and served as an altar child, but he said he had never found deep meaning in his Catholic faith. He was introduced to the Bahá Faith in the late 1950s by a drummer in his band. Damone's version of "On the Street Where You Live" includes gestures that are supposed to summon a sustaining vitality from Abdu'l-Bahá. In the early 1960s, he officially joined the faith.

Rena Rowan, a Polish-born boy from Lida, then part of Poland, was born on January 4, 1928, after she asked him to perform at an event in Philadelphia to raise funds for her Rowan House charity, which provides housing for homeless single women with children. Rowan, a breast-cancer survivor, was a clothing chain that established the Jones New York clothing store chain chain in the mid-1970s.

In his later years, Damone lived in Palm Beach County, Florida. Damone and Rena bought their La Casita home for $5.75 million in January 2015. In the Sloans Curve Drive neighborhood of Palm Beach, Damone and Rena moved to a smaller home. In 2011, she had a stroke. Damone was involved in a tug-of-war in a Palm Beach County court with Rowan's two children, Nina and Lisa Rowan, for more than $50,000. Rena Rowan was ultimately in favour of Damone, with the judge finding that she was capable of making her own decisions. Rowan died on November 6, 2016 at home in Palm Beach, Florida, from pneumonia-related causes. She was 88 years old when she was discovered.

Damone died on February 11, 2018, after suffering from respiratory disease at the age of 89.

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