Born Alvin Morris, Tony Martin received a soprano saxophone on his tenth birthday. In his grammar school glee club, he became an instrumentalist and soprano pop singer. When in high school he then formed his first band called "The Red Peppers", eventually joining a local orchestra leader, Tom Gerun, as a reed instrument specialist, sitting along with a future band leader, Woody Herman...See full bio »
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Episode #1.26
(1951)
(performer: "Louise" - uncredited, "Lullaby of Broadway" - uncredited, "La vie en rose" - uncredited, "The Dum-Dot Song" - uncredited)
1941The Big Store
(performer: "Tenement Symphony" 1941, "If It's You" 1941)
1941Ziegfeld Girl
(performer: "You Stepped out of a Dream" 1940 - uncredited, "Caribbean Love Song" 1941 - uncredited / "You Stepped out of a Dream" 1940 - uncredited)
1940Music in My Heart
(performer: "I've Got Music in My Heart" 1939, "No Other Love" 1939, "Punchinello" 1939, "Oh What a Lovely Dream" 1939, "It's a Blue World" 1939 / "Punchinello" 1939, "A Bird in a Gilded Cage" 1900 - uncredited)
1938Up the River
(performer: "It's The Strangest Thing")
1938Sally, Irene and Mary
(performer: "Sweet as a Song" - uncredited, "I Could Use a Dream" - uncredited, "Half Moon on the Hudson" - uncredited)
1937You Can't Have Everything
(performer: "The Loveliness of You" 1937 - uncredited, "North Pole Sketch" 1937 - uncredited / "Afraid to Dream" 1937 - uncredited)
1936Banjo on My Knee
(performer: "There's Something in the Air" 1936 / "Where the Lazy River Goes By" 1936)
Very early in his career, he was a sax player, under his real name of Al Morris, in an orchestra headed by Tom Gerun. Among the other orchestra members were unknowns (at the time) Woody Herman and singer Ginny Simms.
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