Actor. He was born Giovanni Alfredo De Simone in Detroit, Michigan on November 14, 1919. He was a popular singer from 1939 to the fifties. He signed with Gene Krupa's Band in 1941, recording over a dozen songs. After enlisting in the Army in 1942, he was a member of Glenn Miller's Armed Forces Orchestra until World War II ended in 1945. After the war he made a number of successful recordings for RCA Victor, MGM and Coral, until the fifties, when his style of music fell out of favor. He appeared regularly on the variety radio show, The Breakfast Club, in the late forties and early fifties. On Broadway he performed in Say Darling with David Wayne, Vivian Blaine and Robert Morse and in Funny Girl with Barbra Streisand. He died of cancer in Los Angeles on September 6, 1985.
Actor. He was born Giovanni Alfredo De Simone in Detroit, Michigan on November 14, 1919. He was a popular singer from 1939 to the fifties. He signed with Gene Krupa's Band in 1941, recording over a dozen songs. After enlisting in the Army in 1942, he was a member of Glenn Miller's Armed Forces Orchestra until World War II ended in 1945. After the war he made a number of successful recordings for RCA Victor, MGM and Coral, until the fifties, when his style of music fell out of favor. He appeared regularly on the variety radio show, The Breakfast Club, in the late forties and early fifties. On Broadway he performed in Say Darling with David Wayne, Vivian Blaine and Robert Morse and in Funny Girl with Barbra Streisand. He died of cancer in Los Angeles on September 6, 1985.
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