'Godfather' singer Al Martino dies age 82

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Al Martino, the chart-topping Italian-American crooner of ballads such as "Spanish Eyes" and "Volare" who played the wedding singer in "The Godfather," has died age 82, reports said Wednesday.
Martino's career spanned half a century, and at his peak in the 1950s and 1960s he was among the most recognizable pop stars on either side of the Atlantic.
He scored his first number one US hit in 1952, "Here in My Heart," a song which also became Britain's very first number one single.
He died Tuesday in a suburb of Philadelphia, the city where he was born and raised and eventually became a young bricklayer before running away from home and joining the US Navy at 15, the Philadelphia Inquirer reported.
Jerry Blavat, a longtime friend and disc jockey who had dined with Martino on Monday night in Philadelphia, confirmed the death to the newspaper. ...

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