Crooner Al Martino, who followed a string of middle-of-the-road pop hits with a small but attention-getting role as the mobbed-up singer Johnny Fontane in two of Francis Ford Coppola’s “Godfather” ...

Al Martino was an American traditional pop and jazz singer. He had his greatest success as a singer between the early 1950s and mid-1970s, being described as "one of the great Italian-American pop ...

SPRINGFIELD, Pa. (AP) — Singer Al Martino, who played the Frank Sinatra-type role of Johnny Fontane in "The Godfather" and recorded hits including "Spanish Eyes" and the Italian ballad "Volare" in a ...

There have been several impressive recording debuts but few, if any, have shown more confidence than 24-year-old Al Martino's 1952 performance of the romantic ballad, "Here In My Heart". Back then, a ...

US singer Al Martino, who scored the UK's first number one record, has died at the age of 82. His song, Here In My Heart, took top spot when the New Musical Express introduced its chart in November ...

Al Martino, the Italian-American singer who made a splash on the big screen in the role of Johnny Fontane in The Godfather, has died. He was 82. Martino died Tuesday at his childhood home in the ...

The character of Fontane – a busted flush who seeks the intervention of the Mafia to revive his career – is often said to have been based on Frank Sinatra, who had long been known to have mob ...

The singer who played the Frank Sinatra-type role of Johnny Fontane in "The Godfather" has died at his childhood home in suburban Philadelphia. Publicist Sandy Friedman says Al Martino died Tuesday ...