It's Just Love - Tony Martin

 

Guilty

It's Just Love

Tony Martin

Mercury Wing MGW 12115

1960

From the back cover: Tony is a native of Oakland, California where he was born on Christmas Day. At the age of twelve, he played both clarinet and saxophone, and while attending high school he and three other boys formed an orchestra called the "Clarion Four" that was good enough to get professional engagements in several vaudeville theaters. Tony was leader and played sax. At fourteen he played with the Five Red Peppers, a hot jazz combo and at sixteen, he was playing and singing with a band at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco, making $102 a week, which was during the days when 25 dollars was high wages for a man let alone a boy in his teens.

At the age of eighteen, he made his coast to coast radio debut while still attending St. Mary's College. Tony Martin's story falls into a pattern that has spelled success for so many other greats in the entertainment business, work, lots of it, a few heart breaks like an accident while on his way to open at the Chicago Worlds Fair, losing a chance to star in movies because he was too new, or being signed to do musicals just when the movies decided to feature drama. Still for every dark side there is a bright side and as they say, talent will always win out, and so it was with Tony. The Trocadero Night Club was the turning point for Tony Martin, for it 3was here that Daryl Zanuck heard Tony sing and signed him to a contract with 20th Century Fox.

Most of the numbers in this album are among Tony Martin's greatest hits, including "I Kiss You Hand Madame" and "A Gal In Calico." These hit songs plus many more are yours for the listening in this album of Tony Martin's best recordings.

And Then It's Heaven

Dreamland Rendezvous 

I Miss That Feeling

Would You Believe Me

A Gal In Calico

Guilty

I Don't Know Why

Make Believe

I Kiss You Hand Madame

All The Things You Are

Years And Years Ago

I Never Loved Anyone