Michael Andrew "Peanuts" Hucko was born in 1918 in Syracuse, NY and moved to New York City in 1939. From 1939 to 1940, He played tenor saxophone with Will Bradley and Joe Marsala. After a brief time ...

Michael “Peanuts" Hucko was born in Syracuse, N.Y., and would become one of the biggest and most prolific clarinetists after Artie Shaw, Benny Goodman and Buddy DeFranco. The name was given to him as ...

Here's the late, great Peanuts Hucko introducing Elliott with the Glenn Miller Orchestra for "This Time's the Dream's On Me," one Syracusan obviously proud of another.