STEVE ANTHONY PLAYS ON AFTER 60 YEARS BEHIND THE HORN.(Living Today)

Byline: Paul Grondahl Staff writer

For the past 60 years, Steve Anthony has been striking up the band.

"I had my first job at age 10 with my dad's polka band," recalls Steve Anthony Gurzynski, who dropped the Polish surname years ago for stage purposes.

"I'll never forget that first gig for as long as I live. We played the Clifton Park Hotel. The place is a wreck now, abandoned and falling down. But it was a beautiful place in 1930, with a modern dance floor built up on springs. I was nervous and afraid I wouldn't have the strength to play the whole night. But I couldn't sleep when I got home, I was so elated."

Today, at 70, just returned from a string of resort gigs in Hilton Head, S.C., and about to embark on a western New York nightclub swing, the ubiquitous music man is working harder than ever. Anthony's schedule would challenge a musician half his age. Kay, his wife of 48 years, is Anthony's rock, always by his side on the road and at home.

"Time marches on and waits for no one," says Anthony, who retired from the State …