Roaring 20s: Ted Fio Rito’s Orch. - Then You’ve Never Been Blue, 1929

Ted Fio Rito and His Edgewater Beach Hotel Orchestra -- Then You’ve Never Been Blue (Fiorito, Lewis,Young) -- Columbia, 1929 NOTE: Theodore Salvatore FIORITO (b. 1900, Newark, NJ -- , Scottsdale, Arizona). His name is sometimes given as Ted Fiorito, FioRito or Fio Rito. He was a composer, orchestra leader and keyboardist (on both the piano and the Hammond organ). He was in his teens when he got a job in 1919 as a pianist at Columbia’s New York City recording studio, working with the Yerkes Novelty