He also contributed a disc jockey impersonation that opens the duo's cover of "Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft" and was the deejay who links the medley of oldies tracks on Side 2 of the Carpenters album Now & Then.
The band recorded one album for the small Pompeii label, on which he sang, played guitar and wrote most of the songs.
However, the album was not a commercial success, mainly due to poor distribution, and the group disbanded shortly after its release Peluso later played alongside Bobby Sherman and Paul Revere & the Raiders[2] as well as leading the backing band Instant Joy for Mark Lindsay when Lindsay took a break from Paul Revere & the Raiders.
He recalled Tony Peluso from a time when Mark Lindsay and Instant Joy opened for the Carpenters.
"[4] The solo was played from the electric guitar through a fuzz box straight into the mixing console onto the tape.
[5] Peluso went on to produce and/or engineer for artists such as Kenny Loggins, Seals and Crofts, Apollonia Kotero, Player, Animotion, Stephanie Mills, The Triplets, Bloc, The Fixx, New Monkees, Dave Koz and Boyz II Men.
Peluso worked with Latin pop musicians such as Ricky Martin, and Mexican rock bands such as Molotov and Cafe Tacuba.