Why Can't I Walk Away: Stay With Me

Vic Damone | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (January 21, 2003)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Collectables
• ASIN: B00007JGUO
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #291,390 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Pretty Butterfly

2. Meditation

3. Once I Loved

4. How Insensitive

5. The Girl Form Iponema

6. You Are

7. Stay With Me (Just Stay With Me)

8. Someone To Light Up My Life

9. Quiet Nights Of Quiet Stars

10. The Shadow Of Your Smile

11. The Shining Sea

12. A Time For Love

13. Why Can't I Walk Away

14. Watch What Happens

15. If You Are But A Dream

16. Star Dust

17. Like Someone In Love

18. When You've Laughed All Your Laughter

19. I Should Care

20. The Glory Of Love And Theme Form 'Guess Whos Coming To Dinne

See all 23 tracks on this disc

Editorial Reviews

Two albums, 'Why Can't I Walk Away' (1968) & 'Stay With Me' (1966), from the stylish and soothing Vic Damone. Highlights include, 'Star Dust', 'The Girl From Ipanema', & 'Why Can't I Walk Away'. Collectables. 2003.

Customer Reviews

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars One of the most under-rated singers of all time!, May 25, 2003

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Abbasolutely "Hannah" (Dodgeville, WI United States) - See all my reviews

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Damone at his most charming. Stay With Me album contains some of the definative versions of such classic sambas as How Insensitive and Quiet Nights Of Quiet Stars. The centerpiece is an amazing version of Someone To Light Up My Life that rivals Tony Bennett's and Frank Sinatra's classic versions. And Pretty Butterfly rivals Andy Williams playful take. How sad that it took until 2003 for this remarkable album to finally come out on cd. Why Can't I Walk Away has some real gems on it as well, such as the old Sinatra chestnut If You Are But A Dream. And When You've Laughed All Your Laughter is worth the price of the cd alone! Like Someone In Love is excellent, very reminicent of the songs from Vic's best album, The Damone Type Of Thing. (Where is THAT album on cd?? Shame of RCA for taking so long to release Vic's great RCA catalog.) I could live without the dreadful The Glory Of Love and Why Can't I Walk Away, but overall, this cd is like a breath of fresh air. No wonder Sinatra loved him...

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Vic Damone at his Best, July 10, 2006

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Paul W. Morand (Richmond, VA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Why Can't I Walk Away: Stay With Me (Audio CD)

To fans of romantic ballad singing of another era, Vic Damone is the gold standard. The two vinyl albums re-released on this CD give you Vic at his sonic, interpretive best.

The album Stay With Me is Vic's study of the Bossa Nova, the samba-infected love songs of Antonio Carlos Jobim with English lyrics by Gene Lees. These tender, wistful songs demand an introspective reading that expresses the sadness of lost love, and Vic doesn't disappoint. Wrap your ears around "The Shining Sea" and share the lover's loss.

Why Can't I Walk Away lets Damone demonstrate a more open throat dynamic range. With more of a night club orchestra setting, Vic belts out up-tempo songs like "When You've Laughed All Your Laughter" and "The Glory of Love," showing off what Frank Sinatra once called "the best pipes in the business." His version of "Star Dust" includes the oft neglected verse.

A young Vic Damone probably wouldn't win an American Idol competition. His technique is too flawless .. his tone too perfect. And he wouldn't slum around with what passes as pop songs today. But that's okay. You and I have recordings like these to remember how love songs should be written and sung.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A FIVE star cd all the way, NOT a four star cd!!!, December 7, 2003

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Lizzie Romero (Walnut, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Why Can't I Walk Away: Stay With Me (Audio CD)

I can't believe anyone would only give this four stars, but in any case this cd deserves SIX!!! I'm 16 years old and can appreciate the golden vocie of Vic Damone, my Gramma too kme to see him in concert before his heart failure. He was great. And this cd is exellent including a teriffic version of Hoagy Carmichael;'s Star Dust. You get two of his best lp's on one cd, just buy it and truly discover one of the most underrated male pop singers(other than jack Jones).