I read an obit yesterday from the LA Times, by Claudia Luther, who said that the program director of WINS, where Frankie got a job for $5 an hour singing on a live 1/2 hour show, changed his name to Frankie Lane. Lane later added the "i" to his last name to avoid confusion with another singer.
As part of the background information, she wrote that At 18, with the Depression under way, Laine became a dance marathoner and was in 14 marathons, winning 3 times. He and his partner, Ruthie Smith, made it into the Guinness Book of World Records for dancing 145 days straight (although he claimed it was 146.)
That's My Desire was his breakthrough song. During 1947 it got even more air play especially in Europe and by fall, he got his first royalty payment for the song: $36,000. He was 34.
He could've borrowed Tony Bennett's "Rags to Riches."