Vic Damone is MST3K shorthand for the late-Sinatra pre-rock era of music. Vic sounds like that other time: big bands and big singers. But compared with Elvis or Chuck Berry, he sounds like a fool. He’s just trying too hard, something the cool kids never do. “On the Street where you Live” is a science experiment. Vic has walked down his new girl’s street many times before (CONTROL) and now walks down it knowing she lives there (EXPERIMENT). The result: he no longer stays on the ground. Vic never had another top ten hit; I think NASA recruited him.
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