For Tony Butala and the Lettermen, it's all about the audience. For nearly five decades, the pop trio led by Butala has been wooing fans with brilliant harmonies, a knack for good music and an ...
KALAMAZOO, MI --They've had 55 years on the road, 26 songs on the charts, 32 albums that made the top-40, and who knows how many successful conceptions to their romantic ballads. The hits of The ...
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The Lettermen – (from left) Bobby Poynton, Donovan Tea and Tony Butala – will perform at 7 p.m. Saturday, at the Alabama Theatre, in Barefoot Landing, on U.S. 17 in North Myrtle Beach. Details at ...
When it comes to his music career, Tony Butala has no regrets. But the founding member of The Lettermen would have made a change about 50 years ago — to the singing trio's name. "The Lettermen were so ...
When Tony Butala was growing up in rural Sharon, Pa., in the 1940s, he wasn't the most attentive student at his grade school. "They put me in this dance school to get rid of my energy," he recalls. "I ...
It might’ve taken almost 50 years, but the Lettermen made a triumphant return to Misericordia University. The longtime vocal trio entertained a sold-out crowd Friday evening at the university’s ...
Mark Preston seems to be the ham of this group. One-third of singing trio the Lettermen, Preston put on a pretty good show even without his partners-in-harmony Tony Butala -- the only original member ...
Tony Butala claims to have walked every street, alley and boulevard in Manitowoc when he lived here more than a decade ago. When he returns on Dec. 12 to the city he called home for 10 years, the only ...
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- They were among the major Americans acts -- outside of Motown -- that thrived during a musical era famously dominated by The Fab Four. "We were called the 'Boys Next Door' and ...
The Lettermen still do ”The Way You Look Tonight” and ”When I Fall in Love,” the hits that put them on the pop charts in 1961. The trio`s concerts still feature a heaping helping of the harmonies that ...
The Lettermen have never had a bad audience. The legendary vocal trio, which is celebrating more than 55 years in the music business, know that there is no bad audience, only bad performers, said ...