Singer Perry Como dies
Singer Perry Como, whose career stretched from the 1930s to the 1980s, died on Saturday at his home in Florida. He was 87.
His daughter Terry Thibadeau said the veteran crooner died in his sleep at his home in Jupiter Inlet Beach Colony.
Como, one of 13 children born to an Italian-American family in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania, started out as a barber but soon got a job with a dance band.
'Till the End of Time,' in 1945, was his first hit record and one of more than a dozen million sellers for the relaxed, cardigan-wearing singer.
The Perry Como Show was a long-running success on network television and netted its star an Emmy in 1956.
Como retired briefly in the early 1970s but could not resist going back to work and, when well into his 60s, had further hits.
In 1980, 1982 and 1984 he was the host of Christmas television specials broadcast from Israel, Paris and London, respectively.
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