Nick Noble obit

Died On This Date (March 24, 2012) Nick Noble / Popular ’50s Pop Singer

 

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Born in Chicago, Illinois, Nick Noble grew up to be a singer who was responsible for a handful of pop hits during the mid-1950s.  Between 1955 and 1957, Noble scored hits with “The Bible Tells Me So,” “To You My Love,” “Fallen Star,” and “Moonlight Swim.”  He came back with a moderate hit, “Hello Out There,” in 1962.  Noble enjoyed a brief comeback in 1978 when he had an Adult Contemporary and Country Top 40 hit with “Stay With Me.”  He reportedly recorded 109 singles over his career.  Nick Noble was 85 when he passed away on March 24, 2012.

Noble was a graduate of Hirsch Metropolitan High School and Loyola University and a navy veteran in the later days of World War II.

Noble was popular in the mid-1950s, and he scored four hits on the newly created Billboard pop charts between 1955 and 1957. His singles remained popular in Chicago and nationwide in the early 1960s, with his 1962 cover of Carl Belew's "Hello Out There" reaching the WLS Top 15. He regained national chart status in 1978 with the country and easy listening hit "Stay With Me". He also recorded for Coral, and Columbia and during his career recorded 109 singles and four albums.

In later years, he was associated with and later owned the very successful and nationally known restaurant Lou Mitchell's, in downtown Chicago.