No, Paula Abdul’s other stalker died

Paul Marturano was quite surprised to get a handful of phone calls yesterday asking if he was still alive.

Friends and relatives explained they'd noticed headlines, such as "Paula Abdul's stalker found dead."

"THANKS ALOT," the New Hope musician/comedian e-mailed gossip Website TMZ. "... My mother cried thinking I was dead."

Calling Marturano "Creepy McCreeperton," TMZ said he was "furious" that its report of a woman's death in Los Angeles confused people.

Those who know the Drexel Hill-born, Monsignor Bonner grad realize he was mainly being facetious.

"I wasn't like mad or anything," he said this morning.

"Yes, my mother cried," he added, laughing.

He certainly was kidding last year, when, during auditions at Philadelphia's Hyatt Regency hotel, he delivered his infamous "Stalker" serenade to American Idol judge Paula Abdul on Fox's American Idol. The "song," aired on the Fox mega-hit in January, featured such lyrics as:

I'm always thinking of her, I really think that I love her.

I'm not much of a talker, so I think that I'll just stalk her.

He went on:

If she was a doggy, I would walk her

If she were a blackboard, I would chalk her

If I were Columbo, I'd Peter Falk her,

But I'm not, so I'll just stalk her.

Abdul was a good sport about the skeevy joke, but show security still escorted Marturano out of the building.

The song created such a buzz that Marturano wound up doing Access Hollywood and more than 200 radio interviews. Two clips of his "Stalker" bit generated more than 700,000 views on YouTube.

This morning, he left a reporter hanging on one phone to take an interview request from Inside Edition.

"I'm going to have to leave for Manhattan quickly," he said.

The woman who died in L.A. was an Idol fan whose unsuccessful tryout before the judges aired in 2006.

The body of Paula Goodspeed was found in a car near Abdul's home on Tuesday evening.

She may have committed suicide, police said.

"I feel bad for both Paula Goodspeed, the woman who took her own life and for Paula Abdul," Marturano stated in an email. "It's horrible."

"Maybe Paula wishes it was me ... but fortunately I'm alive and well," he said this morning.

Marturano, who plays more serious, Billy Joel-type fare when he plays at colleges and clubs, has no plans to record an "I'm Not Dead" song.

At least not right away.

"I don't know. It could be in the future," he said. "I think it might be kind of tasteless to do right now."

Even if he has been known to do tasteless things, he added.