Buddy Greco

Armando Joseph "Buddy" Greco (August 14, 1926 – January 10, 2017) was an American jazz and pop singer and pianist who had a long career in the US and UK.

[1][3][4][5] In 1951 Greco started his recording career, signing with labels such as Coral, Kapp, Epic, and Reprise.

He moved to Essex, keeping his Palm Springs, California, property as a vacation home.

He toured the UK with the Swinging Las Vegas Legends show beginning in July 2010.

The Music of Miss Peggy Lee, which met with critical acclaim at its London West End opening.

The show received positive reviews in the U.S.[7] On New Year's Eve 2011, he made a guest appearance at Hootenanny hosted by Jools Holland, singing "Fly Me to the Moon".

In 2012, he toured the UK in smaller venues, including Thameside Theatre Stage,[13] and The Broadway in Essex.

[15] Greco had an album released by Scepter which Tom Murray of the Calgary Herald referred to 48 years later as "a strange and beautiful mutant of its time".

It included the songs "Let the Sunshine In", "Everybody Gets to Go to the Moon", "You're My World", "Spinning Wheel", "Never Give You Up", and "Like a Rolling Stone".

Greco and George Carlin in a skit from Away We Go , 1967
Buddy Greco, by Allan Warren