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Ted Fio Rito & His Orchestra - The Glory of Love (1936)

For Valentines Day - A Few Songs about Love & Romance: Theodore Salvatore Fiorito was born December 20, 1900, in Newark, New Jersey to an Italian immigrant couple, tailor Louis (Luigi) Fiorito and Eugenia Cantalupo Fiorito, when they were both 21 years old, at their residence at 293 15th Avenue. While still in his teens he landed a job in 1919 as a pianist at Columbia's New York City recording studio, working with the various bands of Harry Yerkes. His earliest compositions were recorded by Yerkes groups and Art Hickman's band. He moved to Chicago in 1921 to join Dan Russo's band, and the following year he was the co-leader of Russo-Fio Rito Orchestra. When they opened at Detroit's Oriole Terrace, their band was renamed the Russo-Fio Rito Oriole Terrace Orchestra. Their first recordings were made in May 1922 and included Fio Rito's "Soothing." Ted also made player piano rolls for the AMPICO Reproducing Piano. The band returned to Chicago for a booking at the Edgewater Beach Hotel, where they did their first radio remote broadcast on March 29, 1924. In August 1925, the Russo-Fio Rito orchestra opened Chicago's new Uptown Theatre. They opened the famous Aragon Ballroom in July 1926, doing radio remotes nationally from both the Aragon and the Trianon ballrooms. Dan Russo left the band in 1928, and Fio Rito took over as leader, touring the midwest with engagements in St. Louis, Kansas City and Cincinnati. In August 1929, the band's first recording without Russo featured Ted Lewis on clarinet and vocal. Billed as Ted Fio Rito & His Edgewater Beach Hotel Orchestra, they headed for San Francisco to fill in for the Anson Weeks orchestra at the Mark Hopkins Hotel. Fio Rito reached a national audience through syndicated and network radio programs. In Chicago, the band was heard on the Brunswick Brevities program, and were the featured orchestra on NBC's "Skelly Gasoline Show" in New York. They also broadcast on many 1930s radio programs, including "The Old Gold Hour", "Hollywood Hotel", "The Al Jolson Show", and "Frigidaire Frolics". Fio Rita had numerous hit recordings, most notably his two number one hits, My Little Grass Shack in Kealakekua, Hawaii and Ill String Along with You both in 1934. He composed more than 100 songs, collaborating with such lyricists as Gus Kahn, Sam Lewis, Albert Von Tilzer and Joe Young.The Orchestra's vocalists included Jimmy Baxter, Candy Candido, Betty Grable, June Haver, the Mahoney Sisters, Muzzy Marcellino, Billy Murray, Maureen OConnor, Patti Palmer, and Kay and Ward Swingle. During the 1940s, the bands popularity diminished, but Fio Rito continued to perform in Chicago and Arizona. He played in Las Vegas during the 1960s. In his last years, he led a small combo at venues throughout California and Nevada until his death on July 22, 1971 in Scottsdale, Arizona from a heart attack. He is buried in the San Fernando Mission Cemetery in the Mission Hills community of Northern Los Angeles.