R.I.P.: Singer Eydie Gorme

Steve & Eydie

Eydie Gorme, a Jewish girl from the Bronx who alongside her husband Steve Lawrence became a one-name star before Madonna was born, died Saturday in Las Vegas.

She was 84. No cause of death was announced, though she reportedly had been suffering from cancer.

According to David Hinckley at NYDaily News, her representative Howard Bragman said Lawrence and their son David were at her side.

Lawrence issued a statement saying, "Eydie has been my partner on stage and in life for more than 55 years. I fell in love with her the moment I saw her and even more the first time I heard her sing.

"While my personal loss is unimaginable, the world has lost one of the greatest pop vocalists of all time."

Gorme's recording career, first solo and often later with Lawrence, lasted close to five decades. While she and Lawrence were best known for ballads in the classic pop style, her biggest hit was a semi-novelty dance tune, "Blame It On the Bossa Nova."

The single sold a million copies and peaked at No. 7 on the pop charts in 1963.

Long before she retired in 2009, she and Lawrence were better known for their stage act, which was known throughout the nightclub and Las Vegas world as just "Steve and Eydie."

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