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- Marshall Lytle joined Bill Haley and the Saddlemen in 1951, playing bass and also performing as a featured vocalist. He stayed with Haley after the band changed its name to Bill Haley and the Comets, and Lytle played bass on the famous recording of "Rock Around the Clock" in 1954. In late 1955 Lytle quit the Comets to form The Jodimars alongside former Comets Dick Richards Boccelli and 'Joey Ambrose' (qv_. Lytle continued to perform as a solo act after the Todimars broke up in 1958 before changing his name to Tommy Page and entering the real estate business. In 1987 Lytle participated in a Comets reunion and continues to perform, record and write songs (as Tommy Page) with the band today. He is a member of the Rockabilly Hall of Fame.- IMDb Mini Biography By: A. Nonymous
- He started out playing guitar. He was working at a radio station in Pennsylvania when Bill Haley hired him to replace the bass-fiddle player in his band, the Saddlemen. Lytle didn't know how to play bass, and Haley gave him a 30-minute lesson, teaching him the slap-bass technique (in which the strings are smacked against the fingerboard).
- Touring with Bill Haley's Original Comets. Also runs an interior design shop.
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