Special Achievements

• Appeared on The Danny Thomas National Telethon for the St. Jude’s Children’s Hospital, hosted by Jess Duboy; Broadcasted from Memphis, Tennessee
• Appeared with my Band in the 1985 HBO premiere movie, "Finnegan, Begin Again," starring Mary Tyler Moore and the late Robert Preston ("The Music Man")

Tom (far left) with Mary Tyler Moore, other band members, and Robert Preston

during the filming of HBO's "Finnegan, Begin Again"

Affiliations:

Lifetime Member of the Cleveland Style Polka Hall of Fame

Voting Member of the Recording Academy (Grammy Awards)