JERRY VALE MOBBED WITH SUPPORT OVER `MOB HITS'

JERRY VALE MOBBED WITH SUPPORT OVER `MOB HITS'

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (Wireless Flash) -- Italian-American singer Jerry Vale says after filming TV commercials for the CD collection titled "Mob Hits," he now knows what it's like to be mobbed by controversy. Vale says he agreed to do the commercials because he likes mob movies and Italian pop songs and he didn't think it would offend other Italian-Americans. But after a Chicago man complained, some Italian-American groups canceled charity performances with Vale. The singer says the scandal was a curse at first, but he now feels vindicated because almost all the people who are buying "Mob Hits" are Italian. Vale is profiled in the new biography, "Jerry Vale: A Singer's Life" (Celebrity Books).