The man many consider to have possessed the greatest voice ever in popular music Alan Dale had a career that spanned three decades and 16 record labels At age 17 he was a bigband vocalist first with Carmen Cavallaro then George Paxton In 1948 he achieved stardom via CBS musical quiz show Sing It Again 1950 this is the program referred to in the James Stewart film Un Sacco doro 1941 His own The Alan Dale Show 1948 Dumont and CBS was the first television program kinescoped for showing in other parts of the country By 1951 Dale was one of the hottest singers around Then fate dealt him a terrible blow Overwork combined with unhappy events in his private life aggravated an ulcer condition and he collapsed during one of his live TV shows By the time he had recovered his health he had lost all of his shows His climb back began with old friend Bob Thiele then AampR chief of Coral Records Previously Thiele had produced many of Alans hits and proceeded to do so again with Oh Marie Im Sorry Cherry Pink Sweet and Gentle and Rockin the Cha Cha The success of the latter led to Dales starring in the 1957 film I frenetici 1956 Unfortunately the dark and seamy side of show business eventually caused Alan to become disillusioned as detailed in his autobiography The Spyder and the Marionettes and quite deliberately he gradually faded from the spotlight Which is our loss because Alan Dale was one of the very best Mel Tormé mentioned him in his book My Singing Teachers and he deserves to be rediscovered just as Tony Bennett has been IMDb Mini Biography By qvs amp corrections by A Nonymous
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