Not a guy most would know much about. Was as natural a singer as ever took the stage however. Frank Sinatra called Damone his favorite singer. Worked the clubs when they were mob run and recalled an incident during that time.
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Mr. Damone’s autobiography, “Singing Was the Easy Part,” written with David Chanoff, appeared in 2009. In it, he recalled a night when a mobster, angry that he had broken off an engagement to the thug’s daughter, dangled him out of a New York hotel window. The Luciano boss Frank Costello got him off the hook, he said.
“We didn’t think about it back then,” he said, “but the mob owned the nightclubs and theaters.”
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https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/12/o...nger-dies.html