{"id":146198,"date":"2025-03-30T18:08:42","date_gmt":"2025-03-30T22:08:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2025\/03\/30\/richard-chamberlain-dies-at-90-tv-icon-had-a-top-5-album-top-10-single-in-early-1960s\/"},"modified":"2025-03-30T18:08:42","modified_gmt":"2025-03-30T22:08:42","slug":"richard-chamberlain-dies-at-90-tv-icon-had-a-top-5-album-top-10-single-in-early-1960s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2025\/03\/30\/richard-chamberlain-dies-at-90-tv-icon-had-a-top-5-album-top-10-single-in-early-1960s\/","title":{"rendered":"Richard Chamberlain Dies at 90: TV Icon Had a Top 5 Album & Top 10 Single in Early\u00a01960s"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n\tRichard Chamberlain, who died on Saturday (March 29) night at age 90, will be remembered as a TV icon, but he was a hot recording artist for a time. His debut album, Richard Chamberlain Sings<\/em>, released on MGM Records, made the top five on the Billboard 200 in 1963.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn addition, he had three top 30 hits on the Billboard Hot 100: \u201cTheme From Dr. Kildare (Three Stars Will Shine Tonight\u201d<\/a> (No. 10 in 1962), a cover version of the Elvis Presley<\/a> smash \u201cLove Me Tender\u201d (No. 21 in 1962) and a cover version of the Everly Brothers<\/a> smash \u201cAll I Have to Do Is Dream\u201d (No. 14 in 1963).<\/p>\n

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\n\tHe was also the first artist to record \u201cThey Long to Be Close to You,\u201d<\/a> a Burt Bacharach<\/a>\/Hal David song that went on to become a pop standard when it was recorded by the Carpenters<\/a>. The duo\u2019s version was Billboard<\/em>\u2019s Song of the Summer for 1970 and received a Grammy nod for record of the year. Chamberlain\u2019s version, conducted by Bacharach, went relatively unnoticed. It was featured on the B side of his Hot 100 single \u201cBlue Guitar\u201d (No. 42 in 1963).<\/p>\n

\n\tChamberlain died in Waimanalo, Hawaii, of complications from a stroke, according to his publicist, Harlan Boll.<\/p>\n

\n\tChamberlain received a Grammy nomination in 1972, but not for his music. He was nominated for best spoken word album for an RCA Recordings recording of a production in which he played Hamlet.<\/p>\n

\n\tWhile Chamberlain\u2019s recording career was short-lived, his status as a TV star spanned decades. He starred in Dr. Kildare<\/em> from 1961-66. The medical drama ranked in the top 10 in the Nielsen ratings in its first season and remained in the top 20 for its second and third seasons.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn 1975, he received his first Primetime Emmy nomination for starring in The Count of Monte Cristo<\/em>. He was nominated for outstanding lead actor in a special program (drama or comedy).<\/p>\n

\n\tIn the early 1980s, Chamberlain gained a reputation as the king of the miniseries for his starring roles in Shogun<\/em>, The Thorn Birds<\/em> and Wallenberg: A Hero\u2019s Story<\/em>. He received Primetime Emmy nods for outstanding lead actor in a limited series or a special for all three productions.<\/p>\n

\n\tChamberlain also acted in film and on Broadway. His first attempt at Broadway \u2014 in a legendarily troubled 1966 production of a musical adaptation of the 1961 film Breakfast at Tiffany\u2019s<\/em> with Mary Tyler Moore<\/a> \u2014 ended when producer David Merrick pulled the plug on the musical after only four preview performances in New York. (Happily, both stars survived the high-profile flop.)<\/p>\n

\n\tChamberlain went on to star on Broadway in revivals of The Night of the Iguana<\/em> (1976-77), Blithe Spirit<\/em> (1987), My Fair<\/em> Lady<\/em> (1993-94) and The Sound of Music<\/em> (1999).<\/p>\n

\n\tBorn George Richard Chamberlain in Los Angeles on March 31, 1934, Chamberlain was named after his grandfather but was always called Dick or Richard. Chamberlain was gay, which was known in the industry but kept from the public in the years he was a romantic leading man. He came out in 2003, at age 68, in his memoir Shattered Love: A Memoir<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\n\tChamberlain\u2019s fears of rejection by his fans proved unfounded. \u201cEveryone has been so supportive, so positive,\u201d he told The Los Angeles Times<\/em> in an interview to promote the book. \u201cIn New York, people walked up to me in the street, and in theaters. Strangers gave me the thumbs up, wished me well, said, \u2018Good for you.\u2019 I\u2019m just awestruck by the change in the way I feel about life now.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Richard Chamberlain, who died on Saturday (March 29) night at age 90, will be remembered as a TV icon, but he was a hot recording artist for a time. His debut album, Richard Chamberlain Sings, released on MGM Records, made the top five on the Billboard 200 in 1963. In addition, he had three top […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-146198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musique","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146198\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}