 A recording contract with Mercury Records led to his hit single, "Cold, Cold, Heart" (Mercury 5693) in November 1951.While Tony Bennett took the song to #1 on the pop chart that year, Fontane's version of the song reached #28 on the Hit Parade, surpassing the version by Hank Williams, who wrote the song.Fontane married actress Kerry Vaughn on May 2, 1950 and toured with her in Australia in the musical comedy, "Zip Goes a Million".