Lawrence died from complications due to Alzheimer’s disease, said Susan DuBow, a spokesperson for the family
Singer Eydie Gorme, with her husband Steve Lawrence, holds the Grammy she was presented as the top female vocalist of 1966 for her recording of If He Walked Into My Life, at the Grammy Awards in New York on March 3, 1967.Steve Lawrence, a singer and top stage act who as a solo performer and in tandem with his wife Eydie Gorme kept Tin Pan Alley alive during the rock era, died Thursday. He was 88.
“We had a chance to get in on the ground floor of rock ‘n’ roll,” he recalled in a 1989 interview. “It was 1957 and everything was changing, but I wanted to be Sinatra, not Rick Nelson. By the 1970s, Lawrence and his wife were a top draw in Las Vegas casinos and nightclubs across the country. They also appeared regularly on television, making specials and guesting on various shows.
King Records, impressed by the teenager’s strong, two-octave voice, signed him to a contract. His first record, “Poinciana,” sold more than 100,000 copies, and his high school allowed him to skip classes to promote it with out-of-town singing dates. Until Gorme’s death, in 2013, they remained popular, whether working together in concert or making separate TV appearances.He appeared in such shows as “CSI: Crime Scene Investigation,” “Gilmore Girls,” “Diagnosis Murder” and “The Nanny.”
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