Sandler and Young
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Sandler and Young were a popular singing team from the 1960s through the 1980s, comprised of Belgian-born Tony Sandler and native New Yorker Ralph Young.
Sandler & Young appeared with Polly Bergen in her show at the Las Vegas Thunderbird Hotel & Casino, doing eleven minutes between her costume changes. This engagement was a smashing success and was the first of many the three would make together. Sandler & Young's careers were further advanced by their performance at the Coconut Grove in Hollywood, where a long list of celebrities and movie stars, through word of mouth, attended their show. Among the people in attendance was Alan Livingstone, then president of Capitol Records, who immediately signed them to a recording contract.
During the release of their albums, Sandler & Young performed numerous concerts in the most important clubs, showrooms, and concert halls throughout the US and Canada. In fact, they played Canada so often that people actually thought they were Canadians.
Guest shots on the most popular national TV shows such as "The Ed Sullivan Show," "The Andy Williams Show," "The Merv Griffin Show," and "The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson" followed, and Sandler and Young became one of the most popular acts in show business.
In 1969 Sandler and Young hosted for 13 weeks the very popular Kraft Music Hall from London for CBS.
By the age of 65, Young decided to retire from the concert stage to spend more time with his family in Palm Springs and Los Angeles. Sandler, the younger of the two, wasn't ready to stop performing. Today, Tony Sandler is actively touring the country with his interpretations of musical theatre and European repertoire, and his one man-show "Chevalier, Maurice and Me."
In 1995 Capitol Records released the CD Sandler & Young, Great Gentlemen of Song and in that same year they earned their celebrity star on the famous Palm Springs Walk of Stars.
On very special occasions, Sandler and Young reteam to perform to sellout crowds, such as the 2003 All Stars benefit show Let Freedom Ring in Palm Springs to honor the victims of 9/11.
