Eydie Gorme aka Edith Gormezano

Pop singer -- via the New York Times. She and her husband and co-warbler Steve Lawrence were the epitome of cheesy Vegasness to our ungrateful, callow generation. However, she was a superb stylist, technically flawless and able to sell a song, to really connect emotionally with her audience -- a talent that is pretty rare. If both their performing talents were mocked at the time as cliches, it's only because they came at the very end of the singer-interpreter boom that dominated pop music until rock 'n' roll came along -- 1942-1963. She was a Spanish-language diva; and she was hip to herself -- she and Steve did a killer cover of "Black Hole Sun," which you can listen to below.