Vic Damone - Closer Than a Kiss / This Game of Love
Closer Than a Kiss / This Game of Love
By Vic Damone
Very + Good Condition. (Includes jewel case, original artwork inserts, and Cd, all in very good condition.)
Track ListingThis pairing of two of Vic Damone's Columbia albums spotlights both his strengths and weaknesses as a performer. Closer Than a Kiss showcases Damone's beautiful yet somewhat emotionally empty voice on a respectable but ultimately dull collection of standards. This Game of Love, however, may just be the best album that the crooner ever cut. Damone recorded the session with a small but superb jazz group that gives diverse backings to a strong selection of ballads and rhythm tunes. You wouldn't think that Vic Damone, the world's whitest white man, could be capable of spinning off a vibrant version of Fats Waller's "Ain't Misbehavin'," but he does. Thankfully, Damone and his crew of crack jazz musicians are as good on the rest of the album's 11 selections. Closer Than a Kiss may be far from essential, but This Game of Love is so good that vocal pop fans will still want to add this two-for-one CD to their collections.
TRACK LIST
1 Closer Than a Kiss
2 Out of Nowhere
3 I Kiss Your Hand, Madame
4 We Kiss in a Shadow
5 Cuddle Up a Little Closer
6 A Toujours (Till Always)
7 You and the Night and the Music
8 Prelude to a Kiss
9 How Deep Is the Ocean?
10 Day by Day
11 As Time Goes By
12 Close As Pages in a Book
13 Alone Together
14 My Romance
15 Ain't Misbehavin'
16 But Beautiful
17 The End of a Love Affair
18 The Things We Did Last Summer
19 Am I Blue?
20 I'll Be Around
21 It's a Lonesome Old Town
22 Me and My Shadow
23 I Like the Likes of You
24 A Fellow Needs a Girl
