He was born Edmund Dantes Urick in Malden,
Massachusetts.He was in a family quartet called
The Urick Brothers with his brothers which was formed in 1947.He has
appeared on many TV shows and was in 40 episodes of Daniel Boone as well as various films and then returned to
singing.In the 1960s he joined
RCA Victor and had 4 Top 20 chart hits with them.He appeared on Broadway in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
and The Crucible and off-Broadway
in The Fantasticks.He had a famous interview with
Johnny Carson where he demonstrated tomahawk throwing and the result was
one of the longest laughs in the history of television.