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Ambrose, Tommy
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He is a singer and composer. At age 5, he began singing at "Youth for Christ" rallies at Massey Hall, Maple Leaf Gardens, and elsewhere and performed on gospel radio shows on CKEY and CFRB until he was 16. Turning to popular music he made his CBC TV debut in 1957 on "Cross-Canada Hit Parade" and hosted "While We're Young" (summers 1960, 1961) and "The Tommy Ambrose Show" 1961-3. After several years of nightclub work, accompanied in the late 1960s by Norm Amadio, Ambrose became a host of CBC's gospel series "Celebration," on radio 1971-4 and on TV 1975-6. In the late 1970s, he performed occasionally in clubs and concerts with a nonet led by Doug Riley.
As a partner 1971-88 with Larry Trudel in Trudel Productions, and through his own PC Productions, established in 1989, he has composed many successful jingles, theme songs for CITY-TV and Global TV, and several scores for CBC TV movies. He was the proprietor 1977-89 of Jingles, a downtown Toronto bar that on occasion presented jazz groups. Other recordings include singles for Warner Brothers, RCA Victor, Fuzzy Love and Sweet Times.
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Tommy Ambrose. 2010. Retrieved from https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/tommy-ambrose-emc.