On the Swingin' Side

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On the Swingin' Side
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Studio album by
Vic Damone
ReleasedDecember 19, 1960
Genre Traditional pop, vocal pop, standards
Length28:01
Label Columbia
Producer Jack Marshall
Vic Damone chronology
This Game of Love
(1959)		On the Swingin' Side
(1960)		 Linger Awhile with Vic Damone
(1962)

On the Swingin' Side is the twelfth studio album by American singer Vic Damone, [1] released on December 19, 1960, by Columbia Records. It was produced by Jack Marshall

Contents

The album was released on compact disc for the first time by EMI Music Distribution in 2000, as tracks 13 through 24 on a pairing of two albums on one CD with tracks 1 through 12 consisting of Damone's Debut Columbia Records from 1956, That Towering Feeling!. [2] Collectables included this CD in a box set entitled Only the Best of Vic Damone, which contains six of his studio albums and one compilation and was released on November 27, 2007. [3]

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svg [1]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [4]
Billboard Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [5]

William Ruhlmann of AllMusic said that "It an unadulterated up-tempo delight that deserves to be rediscovered. The charts are bright, Vic Damone is relaxed but never dull, and the mood finds a nice balance between romance and spirited humor" [1]

Giving it four stars to indicate "strong sales potential", Billboard notes "He Lends his superior vocal talents to a flock of great standards - eschewing his usual sweet ballad groove in favor of a swinging beat. It's a highly effective change of pace for the warbler and fine wax for jocks." [5]

Cash Box claimed "Jack Marshall's arrangement keep the pace on the easy swing side, sympathetic to the singer's style". [6]

In A Biographical Guide to the Great Jazz and Pop Singers, Will Friedwald writes "He knows his own strengths and weakness enough to stick to doing ballads with a beat, as opposed to out and up-tempo singing in the Sinatra Swingin' Lover tradition. [7]

The Encyclopedia of Popular Music described the album as "a well-regarded album" [4]

Track listing

Side one

Side two

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."I Cried for You" Gus Arnheim, Abe Lyman, Arthur Freed 2:19
2."Speak Low" Kurt Weill, Ogden Nash 2:19
3."It's a Wonderful World" Jan Savitt, Jan Savitt, Johnny Watson1:49
4."Girl of My Dreams (I Love You)" Sunny Clapp 2:21
5."Deep Purple" Peter DeRose, Mitchell Parish 2:09
6."Toot, Toot, Tootsie (Goo' Bye!)" Gus Kahn, Ernie Erdman, Danny Russo 2:01

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References

  1. 1 2 3 "Vic Damone – On the Swingin' Side: Ratings". Allmusic. Retrieved 2023-12-24.
  2. ↑ "That Towering Feeling!/On the Swingin' Side". allmusic.com. EMI Music Distribution. Retrieved 5 May 2024.
  3. ↑ "Only the Best of Vic Damone". allmusic.com. Retrieved 3 February 2024.
  4. 1 2 Larkin, Colin (2007). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Omnibus Press. p. 392. ISBN   9781846098567 . Retrieved 31 August 2024.
  5. 1 2 "Pop LPs Strong Sales Potential: On The Swingin' Side". Billboard . December 31, 1960. p. 24.
  6. ↑ "Album Reviews". Cash Box . Vol. 22, no. 22. January 28, 1961. p. 30.
  7. ↑ Friedwald, Will (2010). A Biographical Guide to the Great Jazz and Pop Singers. Pantheon Books. p. 132. ISBN   9780375421495.
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