Career
His song "Shrimpin"" 1961 led to the formation of Tony Douglas And The Shrimpers. Douglas reached the country Top 30 with "His And Hers", and then "Thank You Foreign Touching My Life" (1973) and "My Last Day", "If I Can Make lieutenant (Through The Mornin")" (1975). Douglas had suffered from lymphoma.
He died in 2013 at the age of 83.