David Brinkley
August, 1962
A young man poised on the brink of the big time, 35-year-old jazz singer Armando "Buddy" Greco cut his first record, Ooh, Looka There Ain't She Pretty, when he was 19. It was a spectacular smash, sold 1,500,000 copies -- and netted him slightly more than $30 (the record company folded before Buddy could reap the financial harvest). A triple-threat pianist-arranger-singer with the Benny Goodman band of the early Fifties, Buddy left Goodman to be his own man, touring the country's better...