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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. Over the years aboard the steamboats he backed up many entertainers such as Mimi Hines, Allan Jones, Steve Allen, Tony Martin, BB King, and Billy Taylor.
Tony now lives in Sarasota, FL. playing community theater shows, big bands and jazz combos. Source: Tony Martin
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Tony Martin a Crooner Returns with a Swing in His Heart
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Michael Ricci
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 Feinsteins at Loews Regency on Tuesday, is a quiet, courtly figure who, once settled onto a stool, exhibits the classic body language of a ...
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