Music Style Easy Listening

Artist History Buddy Milton started playing piano at 5 years old. By the time he was 13 he was hiring himself out for weddings and parties in his native Brooklyn. At 16 he joined the musicians union, and two years later, he was working as a song plugger for a New York music-publishing house. Before he turned 20, he had plugged songs to some of the great crooners including Sinatra and Como. By 1941 (when Buddy was 23) he had spent two years driving around the country in buses as part of the Blue Barron Orchestra, which was a spin-off from the Sammy Kaye Orchestra of the mid-'30s. Buddy spent 10 years fronting his own band at the Detroit Athletic Club, when he got a call from someone about a band in Detroit that needed an arranger. He tried it out and ended up inheriting the band. Within three months it was the Buddy Milton Orchestra. When he married his singer in 1951, they had their honeymoon at Scottsdale, Arizona and it ended up becoming a perminent vacation. After deciding to stay in Arizona, Buddy went looking for work in nightclubs around down and landed a job at the old KoKo Club at 24th and Camelback. He stayed their 3 1/2 years, until they sold it to Jerry Lewis in '54. Over the years Buddy played all over, from the old Green Gables, Navarre's, and at Rudy Barrigan's Iron Gate. Around 1975 Buddy started playing at the Biltmore. With over 11,000 songs in his head, both visitors and residents came to know him as the man who could play practically every standard ever written. -based on "Buddy Keeps Plugging Away" (Phoenix CityLife)

Instruments Piano

Press Reviews "Buddy Keeps Plugging Away" - CityLife

Location Phoenix, Arizona - USA

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