Pete Barbutti (also spelled Barbuti) was born in 1934 in Scranton. Pennsylvania. As a

child he was expected to learn an musical instrument. Pete's musical talents were honed

on the accordion and later the piano and trumpet. He had a gift for music and for comedy.

This combination would lead to a career in both and a list of professional and personal

friends that spanned an era from the 1970s to the 1990s.

Pete and his wife Mary Ann moved to Las Vegas in 1960. They raised their children here