Eydie Gorme, Voice of Sophisticated Pop, Dies at 84
By Anita Gates, New York Times
Eydie Gorme, the lively singer with a remarkable range who performed a decades-long act with her husband, Steve Lawrence, that made them the sweethearts of mid-20th-century American pop music, died on Saturday in Las Vegas. She was 84.
It was hard to separate Steve and Eydie (no one ever seemed to think of calling them Lawrence and Gorme), but Ms. Gorme did have instances of solo triumph.
One was her 1963 Grammy-nominated hit recording of“Blame It on the Bossa Nova,” inspired by the dance fad of the moment and written by the songwriting team of Cynthia Weil and Barry Mann. Another was “Amor,”recorded a year later in Spanish (a language she spoke fluently from childhood) and an enormous success in Spanish-speaking countries, where it is the song most associated with her.
“She’s like a diva to the Spanish world,” Mr. Lawrence said in 2004.
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