Larry Fotine (1911 - November 1990) was an American

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pianist, songwriter and producer. He was born Larry Fotinakis, or more accurately Lawrence Constantine Fotinakis. Fotine was a self-taught musician. He led an orchestra in the early 1930s and from 1948 to 1954. Between these periods, he concentrated on arranging, including for bandleader

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. After the orchestra projects, Fotine recorded with his new band, Beale Street Buskers, and returned to arranging, this time for

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. Later, he composed for ''Buttons and Rusty'' cartoons, and wrote music theory books.

Discography

* ''Plain Vanilla'' (LP) with the Beale Street Buskers * ''Plain Vanilla'' (EP) with the Beale Street Buskers (1959) * ''Blue Ha Ha'' / ''Phantasmagoria'' (single) (1977)

Song writing

* "Honestly, I Love You" (1947) * "You Were Only Fooling (While I Was Falling In Love)" (1947) with words by William E. Faber & Fred Meadows

References

1911 births 1990 deaths American jazz pianists American male jazz pianists American male jazz musicians 20th-century American male musicians {{US-jazz-musician-stub