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3 unusual facts about Tony Butala


Tony Butala

As a teenager, Butala sang with a quartet called "The Fourmost", which included Concetta Ingolia, who would later become known by her stage name, Connie Stevens.

It was this lineup that brought the group its first success, as the Lettermen scored their first Top 40 hit at #13 on the US charts with "The Way You Look Tonight"; it went gold in the US.

Butala began his professional singing career in 1948, when he appeared on "Starlets on Parade", a Saturday morning show on KDKA radio in Pittsburgh.



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