- Born
- Died
- Birth nameThomas Zachariah Glazer
- Composer, songwriter ("Melody of Love", "Skokiaan", "More", "A Worried Man", "On Top of Spaghetti"), author and singer, educated at City College of New York. He played tuba and string bass in military and jazz bands, and sang in choirs in New York and Philadelphia, eventually turning to folk-singing and making his Town Hall debut in New York in 1948. He also appeared with the Philadelphia Orchestra at the White House, and gave a number of children's concerts besides making many recordings. Joining ASCAP in 1949, his other popular-song compositions include "Old Soldiers Never Die", "Don't Weep, Don't Mourn, Don't Worry", "A Dollar Ain't a Dollar Any More", "Care", "Ballad for the Babe", "Mama Guitar" and "Till We Two Are One".
- IMDb mini biography by: Hup234!
- SpouseMiriam Reed Eisenberg(? - 1974) (divorced, 2 children)
- Uncle of Mitch Glazer.
- Older brother of Sidney Glazier.
- His recording of his novelty song "On Top of Spaghetti" was on Billboard magazine's pop music chart for 9 weeks in 1963, peaking at #14.
- Along with Leadbelly, Woody Guthrie, Josh White and Burl Ives, Mr. Glazer was a Big City folk singer, one of a loose coalition of performers who made folk music a national phenomenon in the 1940s, presaging its commercial popularity in the 1960s.
- Uncle-in-law of Kelly Lynch.
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