Spoiler : Buddy Clark (Samuel Goldberg) Born Dorchester, Massachusetts, July 26, 1912 Died Los Angeles, California, October 1, 1949 Age 37 (plane crash)

Spoiler : Clark, Buddy (birth name was Samuel Goldberg) Born in Dorchester, Maine 7/26/1911; died 10/1/1949 returning from a football game in a private plane crash in Los Angeles, California. Married to model Nedra Clark (?-?). Clark began his career studying law, but turned to singing on local Boston radio stations. Big Band singing debut in 1934 with Benny Goodman on the Let's Dance radio program. In 1936 he started to perform on the show, Your Hit Parade, and lasted until 1938. In the mid-1930's he signed with Vocalion Records, having a top-20 hit with "Spring Is Here". He did not have another hit until the late 1940's, but continued recording, appearing in movies, and dubbing other actors' voices.

Spoiler : In 1946 he signed with Columbia Records and scored his biggest hit with the song "Linda" recorded in November of that year, but hitting its peak in the following spring. 1947 also saw hits for Clark with such titles as "How Are Things in Glocca Mora" (from the musical Finian's Rainbow), which made the Top Ten, "Peg O' My Heart", "An Apple Blossom Wedding", and "I'll Dance at Your Wedding". The following year he had another major hit with "Love Somebody" (a duet with Doris Day, selling a million and reaching #1 on the charts) and nine more chart hits, and extended his success into 1949 with a number of hits, both solo and duets with Day and Dinah Shore. He was killed in a private plane crash in Los Angeles, enroute to a college football game, when the craft ran low on fuel and crash-landed on Beverly Boulevard. Ironically, a month after his death, his recording of "A Dreamer's Holiday" hit the charts.

Spoiler : Screen debut with an uncredited role in The Great Ziegleld (1936), then played Eddie Kane in Wake Up and Live (1937). Last movie was providing his voice for singing of actor William Holden in Father is a Bachelor, which was released in 1950.

Spoiler : Vocalist on radio programs including Ben Bernie, The Old Maestro for CBS and NBC (1931?-1943?); Carnation Contented Hour for NBC (1932-1949); Musical Toast for CBS and NBC (1935-1937); Your Hit Parade for CBS (1936-1947); Melody Puzzles for Mutual and NBC (1937-1938); The Wayne King Show for CBS (1939-1941); Here's To Romance for CBS (1943); Rhapsody In Rhythm for CBS (1946). Host of The Buddy Clark Show on CBS-Radio (1938); Mutual-Radio (1939); Buddy Clark's Summer Colony on CBS-Radio (1939).