Sandler and Young
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Popular singing team from the sixties, seventies and eighties with Tony Sandler and Ralph Young
The team of Tony Sandler & Ralph 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 & Youngs 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 s.a. The Ed Sullivan Show, The Andy Williams Show, The Merv Griffin Show, and the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson followed, and "Sandler & Young" became the hottest act in showbiz.
In 1969 they hosted for 13 weeks the very popular Kraft Music Hall from London for CBS. The Belgian born Tony Sandler and New Yorker Ralph Young had taken the world by storm for about twenty years.
By the age of 65, Ralph Young decided to retire from the concert stage to spend more time with his family in Palm Springs and L A. Tony, the younger of the two, wasn't ready to stop performing.
Today, Tony Sandler is actively and successfully touring the country with his interpretation of the musical theatre and European repertoire and 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
Yet, on very special occasions, Sandler and Young reteam to perform to sellout crowds, s.a. the 2003 All Stars benefit show Let Freedom Ring in Palm Springs to honour the victims of 9/11.
