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Vic Damone (born Vito Rocco Farinola; June 12, 1928 – February 11, 2018) was an American traditional pop and big band singer and actor.
Overview. Born. June 12, 1928 · Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA. Died. February 11, 2018 · Miami Beach, Florida, USA (complications from a respiratory illness) Birth name. Vito Rocco Farinola. Height. 5′ 10″ (1.78 m) Mini Bio. At fourteen he worked as an usher at the NYC Paramount Theatre.
Vito Rocco Farinola (June 12, 1928 – February 11, 2018), known professionally as Vic Damone, was an American singer and actor. His discography comprises 31 original studio albums, 3 original live albums, various compilation and archival projects, and 115 singles.
Dec 27, 2018 · Vic Damone. He managed to escape the mob’s shadow, but not Sinatra’s. B. 1928. BY ANTHONY GIARDINA. If, in the post-World War II era, the years before “The Voice” and “America’s Got Talent,” you...
Vic Damone. Soundtrack: Payback. At fourteen he worked as an usher at the NYC Paramount Theatre. His father was an electrician who played guitar and his mother taught piano. Damone attended PS 163 and sang in St. Finbar's choir and later attended the Alexander Hamilton Vocational High School and then Lafayette High School in Brooklyn.
Feb 12, 2018 · Vic Damone, the postwar crooner whose intimate, rhapsodic voice captivated bobby soxers, middle-age dreamers and silver-haired romantics in a five-decade medley of America’s love songs and...
VIC DAMONE's name is woven in the American vocabulary as one of the most gifted and celebrated vocalists in history and as he crowns his 52nd anniversary as a performer, Vic Damone stands at the very top. He even popped up in one of 1997's biggest hits comedies, the film Money Talks.
…arrangements for Steve Lawrence and Vic Damone and later toured with Marlene Dietrich. In the late 1950s he began his long association with David, which would produce many hits especially for singer Dionne Warwick, including “Walk On By,” “I Say a Little Prayer,” and “Do You Know the Way to…
The Damone story began in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, 68 years ago, where he was born, Vito Farinola. Later he changed his name to Vic (it sounded smoother) and to Damone, his mother’s maiden name, for show business purposes.
Feb 12, 2018 · Vic Damone, a singer who rose to fame along the tail end of the post-war era embodied by The Rat Pack, died yesterday at Mount Sinai Medical Center in Miami Beach, Fla., according to a statement...
