American composer, orchestra leader, and keyboardist
Ted Fio Rito
Background information
Birth name
Theodore Salvatore Fiorito
Born
(1900-12-20)December 20, 1900 Newark, New Jersey, U.S.
Died
July 22, 1971(1971-07-22) (aged 70) Scottsdale, Arizona, U.S.
Occupation(s)
Bandleader, composer, musician
Instrument(s)
Piano, organ
Years active
1919-1971
Musical artist
Theodore Salvatore Fiorito (December 20, 1900 – July 22, 1971),[1] known professionally as Ted Fio Rito, was an American composer, orchestra leader, and keyboardist, on both the piano and the Hammond organ, who was popular on national radio broadcasts in the 1920s and 1930s. His name is sometimes given as Ted Fiorito or Ted FioRito.
^DeLong, Thomas A. (1996). Radio Stars: An Illustrated Biographical Dictionary of 953 Performers, 1920 through 1960. McFarland & Company, Inc. ISBN 978-0-7864-2834-2. P. 95.
Fiorito (December 20, 1900 – July 22, 1971), known professionally as TedFioRito, was an American composer, orchestra leader, and keyboardist, on both...
performers such as Eugene Stratton and G. H. Elliott. In the early 1940s TedFioRito wrote the tune of a new verse and Paul Francis Webster wrote fresh lyrics...
folklore. The 1933 song "My Little Grass Shack in Kealakekua, Hawaii" by TedFioRito includes the line "... where the humuhumunukunukuāpuaʻa go swimming by ...
graduating from high school, he was hired to go on the road with the TedFioRito Orchestra. After graduation, he went on tour with Charlie Barnet, Tommy...
Call Of The South" w.m. Irving Berlin "Charley, My Boy" w.m. Gus Kahn & TedFioRito "Copenhagen" w. Walter Melrose m. Charlie Davis "Cover Me Up With The...
band singer by the time that she was in her teens, performing with the TedFioRito Orchestra for $75 a week. She also worked with bandleaders Dick Jurgens...
Donaldson Paul Dresser Dave Dreyer Al Dubin Vernon Duke Dorothy Fields TedFioRito Max Freedman Cliff Friend George Gershwin Ira Gershwin Albert Gumble...
It is mostly known as a jazz standard, having been recorded first by TedFioRito (with vocal by Muzzy Marcellino, who was also a master whistler and recorded...
Wonderful) 1958 (television) Harry Ruskin, Henry Sullivan I Never Knew 1961 TedFioRito, Gus Kahn I Only Have Eyes for You 1945, 1962 Al Dubin, Harry Warren...
(Christmas Eve) (catalog No. 24838). This was very popular in 1935. 1935: TedFioRito – recorded for Brunswick Records (catalog No. 7364) on August 1, 1935...
began her career in 1938 in The Debutantes, a trio of young women in the TedFioRito big band. They made the original recording of "My Little Grass Shack...
Mavis Staples from We Get By, 2019 "Sometime", written by Gus Kahn and TedFioRito, 1925 Sometime (musical), a 1918 Broadway musical Sometime, a Thoroughbred...
journalist and author John Fiorito (born 1936) American baritone opera singer TedFioRito or Fiorito (1900-1971), American composer, orchestra leader, and keyboardist...
Marcos A. Jimenez m. Marcos A. Jimenez "Alone at Last" w. Gus Kahn m. TedFioRito "Always" w.m. Irving Berlin "Bam, Bam, Bamy Shore" w. Mort Dixon m. Ray...
Gombell Willard Mack The Sweetheart of Sigma Chi 1933 Band Singer with TedFioRito Edwin L. Marin Mary Carlisle Buster Crabbe The Gay Divorcee 1934 Dance...
arranger born in New Haven, Connecticut. He began his career playing with TedFioRito from 1943 to 1945, and followed this with a slot in Buddy Morrow's orchestra...
1913 in New Orleans, Louisiana, Candido, was a bassist and vocalist in TedFioRito's big band, and they can be seen in a Soundie, "Ma, He's Making Eyes at...
wed Patti Palmer (née Esther Grace Calonico; 1921–2021), a singer with TedFioRito, on October 3, 1944. They had six sons together; five biological: Gary...
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