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Tony Martin

Tony Martin started playing the drums at the age of five with his musical family from Indian Lake, OH. In 1965 he joined a St. Louis-based show group that played the New York Catskill Mountain resort hotel circuit and many other showrooms throughout the U.S., Bermuda, and Nassau in the Bahamas. Tony settled in Dayton, Ohio in 1970 and began playing with local bands and singers. He spent four years at the popular showroom The Forvm Club, then three years with the house band at Suttmiller’s Supper Club that weekly featured entertainers such as Ed Ames, Marilyn Maye, Keely Smith, John Gary, and Johnny Desmond. He worked for the Delta Queen Steamboat Company from 1977-1997, playing on the Delta Queen and Mississippi Queen steamboats

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Born: December 25, 1913

Tony Martin was a popular American crooner and actor during the big band era. Born Alvin Morris in San Fransisco, California, on Christmas Day in 1913, Martin began his career playing saxophone alongside Woody Herman in Tom Gerun's orchestra. He was convinced by dance band leader Ben Bernie to switch to singing in the early 1930s, but did not gain much mainstream recognition until 1936, when he appeared in the Fred Astaire-Ginger Rodgers musical "Follow the Fleet". By 1938, Martin was an established and popular crooner as well as actor, and had given up playing saxophone. Throughout the 1940s Martin scored multiple hit songs, such as "To Each His Own" and the Oscar-nominated "It's a Blue World" from Music in My Heart

The Lyrics They Are 'A Changing: Lyrical Liberties In "Lover, Come Back To Me" And "Softly, As In A Morning Sunrise"

by Alex Segal
May 29, 2024

Frank Sinatra's greatness is evident in his making the songs he sang his own. And his doing this is connected to his, on occasion, changing the lyric of a song--even a very good lyric. But according to good anecdotal evidence, Cole Porter and Ira Gershwin--suppliers of some of the best lyrics Sinatra sang--did not take kindly ...

Glen Campbell/Jimmy Webb In Session CD/DVD Coming on Fantasy Records

August 15, 2012

Glen Campbell’s recordings of Jimmy Webb’s songs have resulted in timeless, chart-topping hits like “By the Time I Get to Phoenix,” “Wichita Lineman,” “Galveston,” and “Where’s the Playground Susie,” among others. The two have performed countless times together over the years, though recordings of their live appearances have been a scarcity — until now, with the ...

Tony Martin a Crooner Returns with a Swing in His Heart

January 15, 2009

To watch the 96-year-old Tony Martin perform songs he recorded more than six decades ago in a voice that is surprisingly unchanged from what it was in the 1940s and 50s is to witness how popular songs and memory can work together as a kind of Proustian madeleine. Mr. Martin, who opened a five-night engagement at ...