Singer Robert Goulet dies

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Singer Robert Goulet dies

Singer Robert Goulet dies at 73. He was awaiting a lung transplant.

Robert Goulet is helped by his aide as he prepares for his role in the musical "Camelot" at the Majestic Theater in New York in 1961.

The singer twirls a lariat before an audience of children during the taping of a Christmas special "The Enchanted Nutcracker" in 1961.

Elsa Lanchester, Jill St. John and Robert Goulet are shown in a scene from their 1964 film "Honeymoon Hotel." Goulet, who shot to overnight international fame by playing Lancelot in the original 1960 Broadway production of "Camelot" with Julie Andrews and Richard Burton, died Tuesday at 73.

Robert Goulet and his wife Vera pose on the red carpet during the opening night of Barry Manilow's new Las Vegas show, "Manilow: Music and Passion," in Las Vegas in 2005.

Robert Goulet, here during an Atlanta visit in the mid-1990s, won a Grammy Award in 1962 as best new artist and made the singles chart in 1964 with "My Love Forgive Me."

The Massachusetts-born Goulet, who spent much of his youth in Canada, gained stardom in 1960 with "Camelot," the Lerner and Loewe musical that starred Richard Burton as King Arthur and Julie Andrews as his Queen Guenevere.

Robert Goulet as Georges in the musical "La Cage Aux Folles" at the Marquis Theater in New York on April 20, 2005.

Actress Carol Lawrence and singer Robert Goulet after obtaining a marriage license in New York in July 1963.

Robert Goulet sings "The Impossible Dream" prior to the Boston Red Sox-Seattle Mariners game at Fenway Park on April 10, 2007.

People pass by singer Robert Goulet's star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

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Robert Goulet is helped by his aide as he prepares for his role in the musical "Camelot" at the Majestic Theater in New York in 1961.

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