RIP Al Martino

Andy Williams and Pat Boone as well, although Boone is a decade or so younger than the others.

 

Don't forget Vic Damone.

 

After the Don goes, "Is this what you've become, a Hollywood finocchio who cries like a woman?" Martino almost starts laughing; you can see him start to smile in the scene.

I will always recall the "Al Martino's Greatest Hits" 8-track that my grandparents would play 25, 30 years ago. In our Italian family, Sundays were always reserved for get-togethers and I remember listening to that so well.

 

...and don't forget Vic Damone's son!

BTW, Pat Boone has to be using botox. No way I hell that geezer looks 45 after 30 years.

 

One of my parents' all-time favourite songs is Martino's rendition of "Spanish Eyes."

He also had the No. 1 song on the very first singles chart ever published in the U.K. - "Here In My Heart" in 1952, also an American No. 1 the same year.

RIP.

 

Oh Godfather, I dunno what I'm-a gonna do (now that I'm dead of course)