{"id":138383,"date":"2018-02-12T11:57:28","date_gmt":"2018-02-12T17:57:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=138383"},"modified":"2018-02-12T11:57:28","modified_gmt":"2018-02-12T17:57:28","slug":"entertainer-vic-damone-passes-89","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=138383","title":{"rendered":"Entertainer Vic Damone passes, 89"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-138384\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/DamoneVic.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"205\" height=\"115\" \/>MIAMI (AP) \u2014 Family members say crooner Vic Damone has died in Florida at the age of 89.<\/p>\n<p>Damone&#8217;s mellow baritone brought him million-selling records and sustained a half-century career in recordings, movies and nightclub, concert and television appearances. Frank Sinatra once said he had &#8220;the best pipes in the business.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Victoria Damone told The Associated Press in a phone interview Monday that her father died Sunday at a Miami Beach hospital from complications of a respiratory illness. Damone had been living in retirement in Palm Beach with his fifth wife, Rena Rowan, who died in November 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Damone&#8217;s hit singles included &#8220;Again,&#8221; &#8221;You&#8217;re Breaking My Heart,&#8221; &#8221;My Heart Cries for You,&#8221; &#8221;On the Street Where You Live&#8221; and, in 1957, the title song of the Cary Grant film &#8220;An Affair to Remember.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MIAMI (AP) \u2014 Family members say crooner Vic Damone has died in Florida at the age of 89. Damone&#8217;s mellow baritone brought him million-selling records and sustained a half-century career in recordings, movies and nightclub, concert and television appearances. Frank Sinatra once said he had &#8220;the best pipes in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":138384,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-138383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=138383"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":138385,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138383\/revisions\/138385"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/138384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=138383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=138383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=138383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}