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Journeys into the offbeat, off the beaten path, overlooked and forgotten - by Eric Model

Wednesday, February 07, 2007

Passing: Frankie Lane, Popular Post-War Standards Singer (Washington Post)

From The Washington Post:

Frankie Laine was one of the most popular singers of the 1950s. In his six-decade career, he sold more than 250 million records.

Mr. Laine sold more than 250 million records during a six-decade career. At his peak, he was a frequent presence on TV variety shows and had his own CBS program in the mid-1950s as a replacement for Arthur Godfrey. He was invited to perform at the world's top concert halls and nightclubs, including the London Palladium, New York's Copacabana and Las Vegas's Desert Inn.

Often playing himself, he starred in several musicals from the early 1950s, including "Sunny Side of the Street" and "Rainbow 'Round My Shoulder." He sang the title songs of many western movies, including "Man Without a Star" starring Kirk Douglas and "Gunfight at the O.K. Corral" with Douglas and Burt Lancaster.

But such is life that when Frankie Lane died this weeks at the age of 93, obituaries attached as his greatest accomplishment that he was the voice of the TV theme song for the western "Rawhide".

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/06/AR2007020601410.html

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