The Damone Type of Thing is the twenty-third studio album by American singer Vic Damone,[1] released on November 20, 1967, by RCA Records. It was produced by Neely Plumb and arranged and conducted by Perry Botkin Jr. and J. Hill.
Billboard selected the album for a "Pop Special Merit" review, described the album as "his excellent album", and stated that it "proves that "Damone still has one of the best pop standard voices in the business".[3]
Cashbox praised Damone for his "renders a selection of pop melodies in a warm, smooth, and graceful manner"[4]
The El Paso Times called it "a quietly sensitive album of an entertainer long confident of his success."[5]
Jason Ankeny of AllMusic praised Perry Botkin's arrangements and wrote that Damone "seizes upon the album's smoky, boozy atmosphere with gusto".[1]
Historian Will Friedwald stated that The Damone Type of Thing is an excellent album although it does "intermingle good stuff and bad.[6]