Frankie Vaughan, CBE, DL (3 February 1928 – 17 September 1999) was an English singer of traditional pop music, who issued more than 80 recordings in his lifetime . He was known as "Mr . Moonlight" after one of his early hits . He was born Frank Abelson to a Jewish family in Devon Street, Liverpool, England . The name 'Vaughan' came from a grandmother whose first grandson he was, who used to call Frank 'my number one' grandson, in whose Russian accent 'one' sounded like 'Vaughan' . He recorded a large number of songs that were covers of United States hit songs, including Perry Como's "Kewpie Doll," Jimmie Rodgers' "Kisses Sweeter than Wine," Boyd Bennett's "Seventeen" (also covered in the U .S . by the Fontane Sisters), Jim Lowe's "The Green Door," and (with The Kaye Sisters), The Fleetwoods' "Come Softly to Me" . From the 1950s through to the early 1960s, his recordings were popular in the UK . In early 1957 his cover of "The Green Door" reached #1 in the UK Singles Chart . The same year he was voted 'Showbusiness Personality of the Year' . In 1961 Vaughan hit #1 for the second time in the UK with "Tower of Strength", but the rise of beat music eclipsed his chart career for two or three years, before he returned to the Top 10 in 1967 with "There Must Be A Way" . Chart success eluded him after this although he did have two more Top 40 singles; "Nevertheless" and "So Tired" . He went to the United States in 1960 to make a movie with Marilyn Monroe, Let's Make Love, and was an actor in several other movies, but his recordings were never chart hits in the U .S . In 1961 Vaughan was on the bill at the Royal Variety Performance at the Prince of Wales Theatre, Coventry Street, London . .