Word: vic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...This year the recordings of Eddy Howard, Frankie Laine, Art Lund, Phil Brito, Billy Eckstime and Vic Damone (TIME, July 21) have become bestsellers, jukebox leaders and disc-jockey favorites across...
...taken eight years of costly singing lessons to develop the Damone style. "There's been times the family went without spaghetti to pay for them," says Vic. The family began to get its spaghetti back in 1945, when Lou Capone,* a 34-year-old Brooklyn olive oil importer, heard Vic sing. Capone promptly left his business (olive oil was hard to come by, anyway, during the war) and gave his full time to managing Vic. He spent $3,000 just to make Vic's audition records...
They paid off. Vic landed a quarter-hour on Manhattan's WHN, went into a full-network sustaining spot on Mutual. Then the late George Washington Hill snapped him up as an understudy to Andy Russell on the Hit Parade. Vic never sang on the show. "That Russell," he complains, "is the healthiest crooner...
...Serenade, Vic has already pulled more than 1,000 letters from such groups as "Vic's Victims," "Veni, Vidi, Vic," and "The Golden Agers"-a Damone fan club composed entirely of grandmothers. Vic seems to have a fatal charm for elderly women; once, after he had sung, an old lady rushed onstage and bussed him roundly...
...commercial ("Love That Soap") that turns even his own stomach; how to finesse a sharp deal and how to make it stick by the application of blackmail. Above all, he knows how to please his agency's most fearsome client, Mr. Evan Llewellyn Evans (Sidney Greenstreet). Vic seems predestined for radio's ulcer brackets. But Miss Kerr's gentility seduces him into true love; and Mr. Greenstreet's ferocious bullying eventually goads him into self-respect...