Frankie Fontaine Buried in Oak Grove Cemetery near his last home in Winchester

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 FRANKIE FONTAINE

• JamesLynne Freitas

  He is buried right in front of my in laws at Oak Grove Cemetery. Once when we were up there a man told us years ago a big limo pulled up & asked where Frank was buried and the man showed him & said there is no stone as he was poor when he passed. All of a sudden Jackie Gleason came out of the limo & not soon after that a stone was put up. We always loved that story

  

 

Joanne Codi

He and my dad were good friends and when he’d come over he’d make the Crazy Guggenheim face at me and I’d get so confused. I couldn’t associate the two as the same person.

 

Frank Fontaine on YouTube https://youtu.be/IfnpFJZtaCo

Television Comedian Singer

Frank Fontaine was an American stage, radio, film and television comedian, singer and actor.

Things Councilor Zac doesn't know. Sorting through my Frank Sinatra, Jackie Gleason albums I come across local guy Frank Fontaine. A bit of Medford history...legendary Fontaine is here and you can visit him anytime you like!

 

Frank Fontaine was on the Jackie Gleason, Jack Benny shows, lived in Winchester and is here in Medford at the Oak Grove Cemetery

Fontaine died of a heart attack on August 4, 1978 in Spokane, Washington. He had just completed a live stage benefit show, having accepted a check for $25,000 which he planned to donate for heart research, when he collapsed and died.

He was interred at Oak Grove Cemetery in Medford, Massachusetts, near his last residence in Winchester, Massachusetts, a substantial house on Highland Avenue, now the home of Winchester Community Music School.^{[12]   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Fontaine   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Fontaine}

 

 These are two albums in my collection.

Though not a jealous person by nature I envy (and applaud) that Frank got to work with legendary conductor Hugo Winterhalter.  I have many of Hugo's discs.

Winterhalter also arranged and conducted sessions for singers including Dinah Shore and Billy Eckstine, and in 1948 he was named musical director at MGM Records. After two years with the label, he joined Columbia Records, where he scored a pair of hits with his recordings of "Jealous Heart" and "Blue Christmas".

In 1950, Winterhalter moved to RCA Victor, where he arranged sessions for most of the label's pop recording artists including Perry Como, Harry Belafonte, Eddie Fisher, Jaye P. Morgan and the Ames Brothers; he also recorded several instrumental albums, among them 1952's Great Music Themes of Television, believed to be the first collection of TV theme songs ever recorded. Winterhalter also notched a series of chart hits, including "Mr. Touchdown, U.S.A.", "A Kiss to Build a Dream On", "Blue Tango", "Vanessa", "The Little Shoemaker", and "Song of The Barefoot Contessa". With pianist Eddie Heywood, he had a minor hit with "Land of Dreams" in 1954 and reached the number one spot on Billboard with "Canadian Sunset" in 1956. The record sold over one million copies, and was awarded a gold disc by the RIAA.^[1]

Winterhalter remained with RCA Victor until 1963, at which time he moved to Kapp; He also penned the main title theme for the film, Diamond Head (1962). Winterhalter recorded a handful of albums for Kapp including The Best of '64 and its follow-up, The Big Hits of 1965, before leaving the label to work on Broadway. He later worked in television as well, and continued recording the occasional LP for various budget labels. Winterhalter's last US chart single was "Theme From 'Popi'", released by Musicor in 1969. It reached #35 in the Billboard Easy Listening Top 40. 

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_Winterhalter

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