Billy Vaughn to continued positive reviews. His association continued with Weems, making the occasional guest appearance with the band he was closely connected to. In the early 1960s, Tanner was also selling Datsuns at a local St. Petersburg auto dealership. In the early 1970s he resumed musical activity, singing with a St. Petersburg-based quartet. Personal life and death In 1936, while Tanner was living in Chicago, he was divorced from his first wife, Verne. Tanner married Eleanor Jones of Birmingham on January 31, 1939 in Indianapolis. While playing an engagement with Weems, Tanner got his marriage license between the first and second acts on the bill, bought a wedding ring between the second and third acts and was married between the third and fourth acts. He met his second wife while working with the Weems band on Catalina Island. They had four children together: Elmo Jr., twins Margaret and Patricia, and John Emmet. By 1969 he was retired. Tanner underwent gall bladder surgery in 1985 and was able to recover at his home in St. Petersburg. He died on December 20, 1990 in St. Petersburg, Florida. Tanner is buried in Mount Olivet Cemetery, Nashville, Tennessee. He was posthumously inducted into the Whistlers' Hall of Fame in 1991, joining previous inductees Bing Crosby and Fred Lowery. Discography Notes References People from Nashville, Tennessee 1904 births 1990 deaths Big band singers Whistlers Mercury Records artists MGM Records artists Vocalion Records artists Dot Records artists Musicians from St. Petersburg, Florida Decca Records artists RCA Records artists United States Merchant Mariners of World War II 20th-century American singers