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BAND LEADER | DRUMMER | VOCALIST - This week our guest is TONY JONES. Tony was raised in a musical family. His father (Rick) was a drummer and songwriter and his grandfather (Leon Rene) was a prominent songwriter and record label creator in Los Angeles and was responsible for discovering Nat King Cole. His grandfather penned such songs as: "Rock-in’ Robin," "When the Swallows Come Back to Capistrano" and "When It’s Sleepytime Down South." Tony Jones has performed with: Milton Berle, Fred Travalena, Danny Gans, The Drifters, The Coasters, Billy Preston, Patty Andrews and others. He is well known for his vocal impersonations of: Louis Armstrong, Elvis Presley, Tony Bennett, Frank Sinatra and Ray Charles. Tony is the creator of an extremely successful and well-known party band in Los Angeles called "The Hodads." The Hodads have been together since 1989 and have appeared with: Kool & The Gang, The Beach Boys, The Smothers Brothers, Tony Danza, The Surfaris, Jim Belushi, Steve Vai, Steven Bishop