Vaughan, Frankie

Vaughan, Frankie
▪ 2000
Frank Abelson 
      British theatre and cabaret singer who was one of the most popular romantic crooners of the 1950s through the '90s; darkly handsome and elegantly dressed, “Mr. Moonlight” (as he was known from his signature tune, “Give Me the Moonlight”) also appeared on television in Britain, the U.S., and across Europe and in motion pictures, notably in a musical number with Marilyn Monroe in Let's Make Love (1960). Vaughan was made an O.B.E. in 1965 and advanced to C.B.E. in 1997 (b. Feb. 3, 1928, Liverpool, Eng.—d. Sept. 17, 1999, High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, Eng.).

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