© British postcard in the Picturegoer Series, London, no. D. 651 Frankie Vaughan,real name Frank Fruim Ableson, (1928–1999), popular singer, was born on 3 February 1928 at Liverpool Maternity Hospital, the son of Isaac Ableson, an upholsterer who owned an upholsterer's shop on Lodge Lane and his wife, Leah, née Cossack, was a seamstress. He was the grandson of Russian Jewish immigrants