50s pop singer Eddie Fisher dies at age 82

[cavegal]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100924/ap_on_en_mu/us_obit_eddie_fisher

LOS ANGELES – Pop singer Eddie Fisher  gained fame crooning love songs like "I'm Yours" and "Thinking of You" to teenage girls in the early 1950s. But his life was overshadowed by drug use, gambling and failed marriages to actresses Debbie Reynolds and Elizabeth Taylor.

Fisher passed away Wednesday night at his home in Berkeley of complications from hip surgery, his daughter, Tricia Leigh Fisher of Los Angeles, told The Associated Press. He was 82.

"Late last evening the world lost a true America icon," Fisher's family said in a statement released by publicist British Reece. "One of the greatest voices of the century passed away. He was an extraordinary talent and a true mensch."

The death was first reported by Hollywood website deadline.com.

In the early 50s, Fisher sold millions of records with 32 hit songs including "Any Time," "Oh, My Pa-pa," "Wish You Were Here," "Lady of Spain" and "Count Your Bles

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[thundley4]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100924/ap_on_en_mu/us_obit_eddie_fisher

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Here or the Lounge would be appropriate in my view.

[littlelamb]

Another Hollywood icon gone.