- One son with his second wife, Cyd Charisse: Tony Martin Jr. He adopted Charisse's son Nicholas from her first marriage.
- Tony was at a Friar's Club Roast for Lucille Ball/Desi Arnaz in November, 1958, when Harry Einstein, having just completed his comedy routine and returning to his seat, collapsed into Milton Berle's lap. Berle, hoping to divert the audience from Harry's distress, urged Tony to sing something. His unfortunate song choice was "There's No Tomorrow." Parke died of a heart attack.
- Classic pop singer and occasional actor (Hit the Deck (1955), Here Come the Girls (1953), Casbah (1948)) whose career peaked in the 1950s. His biggest hit was "There's No Tomorrow" (RCA Victor, 1950), which was adapted from the traditional Neapolitan ballad "O Solo Mio" (Elvis Presley later had one of the biggest hits of his career by adapting the same song as "It's Now or Never"). Happily married for sixty years to actress/dancer Cyd Charisse.
- His parents, Edward and Hattie Morris, were Jewish immigrants from Poland who divorced when he was young, and he considered his stepfather, tailor Myer Myers, his father.
- His parents wanted him to be a lawyer. He briefly attended St. Mary's, a Christian Brothers college, CA. He says he left college in 1931 when "one of the brothers told me I was flunking everything and should stick to music.".
- 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.
- Son Tony Martin Jr. (born on August 28, 1950) died in April 2011, and was survived by Liv Lindeland-Martin, his wife of almost 30 years, father Tony Martin, Sr. and half-brother Nico Charisse.
- Growing up in Oakland, Calif., he took up the saxophone after his grandmother gave him one when he was 10.
- Twice, songs sung on screen by Martin received Academy Award nominations: "For Every Man There's a Woman" from Casbah (1948) and "It's a Blue World" from the 1940 film, Music in My Heart (1940).
- In high school, he formed his first band and after graduating spent about two years at St. Mary's College in Moraga, Calif., but left to pursue music.
- He was awarded 4 Stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for Recording at 6331 Hollywood Boulevard, for Motion Pictures at 6436 Hollywood Boulevard; for Radio at 1760 Vine Street; and for Television at 1725 Vine Street in Hollywood, California.
- There was a misunderstanding that led to his discharge from the Navy during World War II, and even though he had served honorably, there were false rumors that he had tried to 'buy' an officer's commission. As a result even after the war, some major labels refused to record him. He finished up the war in the Army and was awarded the Bronze Star as a noncombatant in the Far East.
- His first hit record was "Now it Can Be Told" (1938), a song by Irving Berlin from the film Alexander's Ragtime Band (1938). It was sung on-screen by his then-wife Alice Faye.
- For several years, he played and sang with bands in the San Francisco area, including the Tom Gerun Orchestra.
- In 1954, on "The Colgate Comedy Hour" hosted by Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis, he appeared with singer/comedian Joe E. Lewis, who was later portrayed by Frank Sinatra in the film bio, The Joker Is Wild (1957). When the show's announcer first introduced "Martin and Lewis", that evening, Tony and Joe E. came on stage, instead.
- He lived longer than both of his wives. His first wife, Alice Faye who he was divorced from in 1941, died in 1998, and his second wife, Cyd Charisse, who he remained married to until her death in 2008, while he died in 2012, age 98.
- As a result of his singing with his orchestra he was given an opportunity in films.
- He temporarily retired from the screen and returned to the radio and stage then back to the screen in 1941 for Ziegfeld Girl.
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