LAS VEGAS, US: Singer Eydie Gorme, who had a hit in 1963 with Blame It On The Bossa Nova, has died in Las Vegas at the age of 84, her publicist has said. Gorme was a popular nightclub and TV singer, both with her husband Steve Lawrence and as a solo act.
In 1953, she joined what became the Tonight Show on the NBC television network. She and Lawrence also recorded Spanish-language songs which became hits in Latin America. Gorme died after a brief illness. Lawrence was at her bedside, along with their son, when she died on Saturday afternoon, her publicist Howard Bragman said. –BBC