Folks, after asking Santosh to intervene in the Engelbert Humperdinck urban legend hoax on Goanet, I decided to save him the trouble and to "do a Santosh" myself and found the following on Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engelbert_Humperdinck_(singer) Some key excerpts: Engelbert Humperdinck, born May 2, 1936 in what was then known as Madras, India as Arnold George Dorsey, is a well-known pop singer. He was raised in Leicester, England and adopted the stage name Engelbert Humperdinck, after the German composer of the same name. Humperdinck has sold about 150 million records and has established himself as one of the world's premiere live performers in a number of sold-out tours. Growing up with ten brothers and sisters in a working-class family, Engelbert became interested in music at age 11, when he took up playing the saxophone. He was singing in nightclubs during the early 1950s, the first of which was a family ballad, according to Humperdinck. He moved to the United States during the mid-1950s. [edit] Early Career Humperdinck quickly absorbed American culture and began his singing career around the time he arrived. Then, when he was lacking success, the record manager for the Decca Records in the United States had to pick out a new name for Dorsey to catch on with the public. Eventually, in the late 1950s, the name "Engelbert Humperdinck" was adopted and he had several hits in the late 1950s and early 1960s. His career, however, declined, partly due to the British invasion of the mid-1960s, and his career didn't reach its height until 1967. Then, in 1967, Humperdinck cut a single, "Release Me", and the result was an almost instant success for the singer. The song quickly hit the number one slot on the British music charts, and this success reflected on the U.S. music charts as well. At its peak, the "Release Me" single sold an unprecedented 85,000 copies daily, but moreover, the slow, powerful ballad became Humperdinck's signature tune, and a staple among adult vocals fans.
