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- Birth nameTeodorico Salvatore Fiorito
- Composer, songwriter ("Charley My Boy", "I Never Knew"), conductor and pianist, educated at Barringer High School. He was a pianist for a New York music publishing company, and then organized a dance orchestra in St. Louis, and then in Chicago. He made many recordings and also owned a membership club in Scottsdale, Arizona. Joining ASCAP in 1921, he collaborated musically with Gus Kahn, Ernie Erdman, Robert King, Sam Lewis, Joe Young and Cecil Mack. His other popular-song compositions include "No, No, Nora", "When Lights Are Low", "Sometime", "Drifting Apart", "Laugh, Clown, Laugh", "King for a Day", "Then You've Never Been Blue", "Now That You're Gone", "Three on a Match", "Kalua Lullaby", "Roll Along, Prairie Moon", "Alone at a Table for Two", "Yours Truly", "Lily of Laguna" and "Soft Green Seas".- IMDb Mini Biography By: Hup234!
- Inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1970.
- Jerry Lewis first wife, Patti Lewis, was a singer with Ted Fio Rito and his Orchestra. She left Rito's orchestra some time in late 1944 and joined Jimmy Dorsey's Orchestra. Patti Palmer was her stage name; her birth name was Esther Calonico.
- Another singer with his band was June Haver. She met her first husband, Jimmy Zito, while singing with the band.
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