Vic Damone – On The Street Where You Live (DVD-Video/MVD)

 

Picture: C-     Sound: C     Extras: D     Concert: C+

 

 

Back in the 1980s when she was still funny, Joan Rivers once said that she was so out of it that she called MTV and asked for them to play a Music Video by Vic Damone.  He had not had a hit since 1965 and nothing he did outside of his music had been in the public eye.  On The Street Where You Live is a another recent concert MVD/Cherry Red has found in England and put on DVD from March 1985.  It never did get broadcast on MTV.

 

However, you do get over 50 minutes of concert including:

 

1)     The Song Is You

2)     When I Dream

3)     East To Love (not the Leo Sayer hit)

4)     Always On My Mind

5)     On The Street Where You Live (from My Fair Lady)

6)     Come In From The Rain

7)     An Affair To Remember

8)     New York, New York (from the Martin Scorsese film)

9)     Hello

10)  I’ve Got You Under My Skin

11)  To All The Girls

12)  That Old Black Magic

13)  You’re Breaking My Heart

 

 

The Willie Nelson hits are mixed, old standards fairly good and Lionel Ritchie’s Hello a disaster, not because of Damone but because it is the oddball song in the set and just awful.  What did disappoint was the lack of energy or feel for the likes of Come In From The Rain and New York, New York.  There is no doubt he still has the voice, but like many great singers in later years, they sometimes let some songs slip through as if only doing them for nostalgia purposes.  Even Joan Rivers might notice, though this has enough moments that fans will enjoy it.

 

The 1.33 X 1 is too hazy and fuzzy, looking like a bad digital backup of PAL or NTSC analog video with aliasing errors all over the place to boot.  It was shot in color, but even that is limited.  The Dolby Digital sound spreads the old monophonic track around ineffectively.  Except for clips of other DVDs of interests, there are no extras.

 

 

-   Nicholas Sheffo