Johnny Desmond (born Giovanni Alfredo De Simone; November 14, 1919 – September 6, 1985) was an American singer who was popular in the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s.

[3] As a boy he also sang on a local radio station, but at age 15 he quit to work at his father's grocery.

[1] The group appeared on 15 commercial recordings by the Crosby orchestra, including two charted hits, "You Forgot About Me" (which reached No.

In 1942, he enlisted in the United States Army, but his military service was in fact a continuation of his singing career.

[1] He was a member of Glenn Miller's Army Air Forces Orchestra[1] and replaced singer Tony Martin after he joined the US Navy, from November 1943 until July 28, 1945, when the band was shipped home.

He made a number of radio broadcasts with the Miller band, and was given his own show called "A Soldier and a Song.

[4] Immediately after his discharge, Desmond became the singer and master of ceremonies on the Teentimers Club, a Saturday morning program on NBC radio.

[3] After the war he took a job on The Breakfast Club, a radio variety program in Chicago, Illinois.

Desmond was a guest on the early television series, Faye Emerson's Wonderful Town, which aired on CBS from 1951 to 1952.

In 1957, Desmond joined Boris Karloff in a guest appearance on NBC's The Gisele MacKenzie Show.

On Broadway, Desmond appeared in Say, Darling (1958) and as Nick Arnstein in Funny Girl,[5] after Sydney Chaplin left the cast.

[3] In September 1985, he died of cancer at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center[6] in Los Angeles, California, at the age of 65.