| LC control no. | n 93099051 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Greco, Buddy |
| Variant(s) | Greco, Armando |
| Birth date | 1926-08-14 |
| Death date | 2017-01-10 |
| Place of birth | Philadelphia (Pa.) |
| Place of death | Las Vegas (Nev.) |
| Field of activity | Popular music |
| Profession or occupation | Singers Pianists |
| Found in | His Buddy Greco's greatest hits [SR] 1963. All music guide WWW site, Sept. 1, 2006 (Buddy Greco; b. Armando Greco, Aug. 14, 1926, Philadelphia, PA; singer) Washington post WWW site, viewed Jan. 12, 2016 (Buddy Greco, a jazz pianist and singer in Benny Goodman's big band in the 1940s, who later developed a Las Vegas stage show that made him perhaps the ultimate lounge act, died Jan. 10 [2017] in Las Vegas; he was 90; never cracked the Top 40, but he kept chasing hits by changing his style from jazz to pop to country and back again; Armando Joseph Greco was born Aug. 14, 1926, in Philadelphia; began singing on radio when he was 4; continued to record albums as recently as 2013; never really retired and, in November, made a final public appearance when he was inducted into the Las Vegas Entertainment Hall of Fame) |
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