Frankie Carle - 1947

Frankie Carle (March 25, 1903) -- (March 7, 2001), born Francis Nunzio Carlone, was a American pianist and bandleader. As a very popular bandleader in the 1940s and 1950s, Carle was nicknamed “The Wizard of the Keyboard“.“Sunrise Serenade,“ however, was Carle’s best-known composition, rising to No. 1 in the nation in 1938 and selling more than one million copies. Carle was born in Providence, Rhode Island on March 25, 1903. Born the son of a factory worker who could not afford a piano, he practiced on a du