Best known for his association with the late sweet band leader Sammy Kaye (b. Mar. 31, 1910, d. Jun. 2, 1987) in the '40s and '50s, the Tony Alamo profiled in this bio should not be confused with the infamous quasi-evangelist/cult leader Tony Alamo (whose bizarre antics have ranged from trying to bring his late wife Susan Lipowitz Alamo back from the dead to publishing a variety of way-out conspiracy theories involving the Catholic Church). The confusion comes into play because the cult leader (who went to prison for tax evasion in the '90s) is also a singer and worked in the music industry as a manager/record promoter in the '50s and early '60s -- that is, before he gave up secular music altogether and co-founded the Alamo Christian Foundation with Susan Lipowitz Alamo (who was born Edith Opal Horn on April 25, 1925, and died of cancer in 1982) in the late '60s.