The Fiorettes!!! Vintage Big Band Singers Print - With The Ted Fio Rito Orchestra - Beautiful Cabaret Styling

The Fiorettes!!! Vintage Big Band Singers Print - With The Ted Fio Rito Orchestra - Beautiful Cabaret StylingTreasures from THE MUSIC COLLECTION at The Grand Review. Print size 24 x 14, and works with a 24 x 14 frame, or custom framed as you see fit. Bandleader Ted Fio Rito has a biography on line that is a rollicking ride through popular music in the 1920s, 30s and 40s, and worth at least a casual read if you have a few minutes. Two number one hits include My Little Grass Shack in Kealakekua, Hawaii in 1934, which I know mainly from watching Litlle Rascals

Treasures from THE MUSIC COLLECTION at The Grand Review.  Print size 24 x 14, and works with a 24 x 14 frame, or custom framed as you see fit.

Bandleader Ted Fio Rito has a biography on line that is a rollicking ride through popular music in the 1920s, 30s and 40s, and worth at least a casual read if you have a few minutes.  Two number one hits include My Little Grass Shack in Kealakekua, Hawaii in 1934, which I know mainly from watching Litlle Rascals as a kid.

Mr. Fio Rito's orchestra was quite the production, with various vocalists featured on a variety of songs over the years, including Candy Candido, the Debutantes, Betty Grable, June Haver, Muzzy Marcellino, Billy Murray (the Denver Nightingale), and our gals, The Fiorettes.  The Fiorettes had a syncopated harmony style in the vein of the always delightful Boswell Sisters, and can be found on Youtube singing the plucky love song Too Beautiful For Words.

I know all that now, but knew nothing about them when I found this great photo and fell instantly in love.  I love the elements that come together to create this moment and craft this compellingly sentimental portrait.  None of this happened by accident.  Their hair and makeup, the wonderful lighting, the mood the photographer was able to stage and capture, and finally the retouching in the darkroom all work like magic.  Of course, those are things we're not meant to notice as we simply enjoy the total picture, and that total picture knocked me over with a feather...

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