| The Damone Type of Thing | ||||
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| Released | November 20, 1967 | |||
| Genre | Traditional pop
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| Length | 32:02 | |||
| Label | RCA | |||
| Producer | Neely Plumb | |||
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The Damone Type of Thing is a studio album by American singer Vic Damone, released on November 20, 1967, by RCA Records. It was produced by Neely Plumb and arranged and conducted by Perry Botkin Jr. and J. Hill.
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [1] |
Billboard said the album proves that "Damone still has one of the best pop standard voices in the business". [2]
The El Paso Times called it "a quietly sensitive album of an entertainer long confident of his success." [3]
Jason Ankeny of AllMusic praised Perry Botkin's arrangements and wrote that Damone "seizes upon the album's smoky, boozy atmosphere with gusto". [1]
Historian Will Friedwald stated that The Damone Type of Thing is an excellent album although it does "intermingle good stuff and bad. [4]
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Time After Time (from the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film: It Happened in Brooklyn )" | Sammy Cahn, Jule Styne | 2:36 |
| 2. | "I Got It Bad (and That Ain't Good)" | Duke Ellington, Paul Francis Webster | 3:49 |
| 3. | "I Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out to Dry (from the Broadway musical: Glad To See You)" | Sammy Cahn, Jule Styne | 2:51 |
| 4. | "Gone with the Wind" | Allie Wrubel, Herb Magidson | 2:06 |
| 5. | "I Never Go There Any More" | Rod McKuen, Marty Paich | 3:17 |
| 6. | "Two for the Road (from the 20th Century Fox Pictures: Two for the Road)" | Henry Mancini, Leslie Bricusse | 2:36 |
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Make Me Rainbows" | Alan Bergman, Marilyn Bergman, John Williams | 2:27 |
| 2. | "It Never Entered My Mind (from the Broadway musical: Higher and Higher)" | Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart | 4:10 |
| 3. | "The More I See You (from the 20th Century Fox Pictures: Diamond Horseshoe)" | Harry Warren, Mack Gordon | 2:23 |
| 4. | "I'll Find You a Rainbow" | Jeanne Costa, Tony Costa | 2:43 |
| 5. | "Arrivederci, My Love" | Pietro Garinei. Sandro Giovannini, Renato Rascel, Carl Sigman | 2:25 |
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