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Strip Headliner Buddy Greco Dies At 90

By Casey Morell

Published January 10, 2017 at 5:07 PM PST

The singer Buddy Greco, a longtime Las Vegas resident and former singer with Benny Goodman's orchestra has died.

Journalist Norm Clarke reports the former Strip headliner was 90 years old.

Greco was a headliner at the former Desert Inn, and is well known for his version of the standard "The Lady is a Tramp."

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Casey Morell is the coordinating producer of Nevada Public Radio's flagship broadcast State of Nevada and one of the station's midday newscast announcers. (He's also been interviewed by Jimmy Fallon, whatever that's worth.)

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