Page Ten Fio Rito Frees Dancing Hearts With Piano Key Master Of Ivories Will Provide Sweet Music For Those Who Don't Like It Hot By DON JUAN, TWO-TEN They used to say that the slow and smooth, the mellow and danceable music was of the dim, distant past. Not so, not so. It has its place and its place in Jayhopmania is reserved for Ted Fio Rito, the master of the keys. As one of the earliest orchestra leaders ever to enjoy the popularity of the ether waves, Fio Rito has re- mained a definite anti-New Dealer as far as swing is concerned. He claims that it is nothing "more than music of 20 years ago dressed up in a pattern." Phooey On Swing "In five years or less, I predict there won't be any swing bands," he stated in a recent interview. "It's merely the latest pattern of rag-time, the one-step and the cake walk. I played them all when each was most popular and it really is amusing to see them come back today with a new dress and a new name." Swing is on its way out, according to the maestro, but "the so-called TED FIO RITO sweet music is good forever. You can't change it and it is never out of date." Known for his distinctive touches in rhythm and phrasing, Fio Rito, in order to bear out his ideas about how a song should be played, has relegated the saxophone considered by swing band leaders as the hottest of all instruments, to a back position in his band. Features A Viola The viola is consideredaby Ted as the "it" instrument of his outfit and it is emphasized in his arrangements. Three violins were formerly used to carry this main role, but they have given way to the single viola since Fio Rito believes that it lends deeper and more resonant tonal qualities, and at the same time blends better with the brass. Probably the key position, there- fore, in the Fio Rito band is held by Norman Botnik, the expert viola player who has played with Nathan- iel Schilkret, Roy Fox, England's leading band, and George Olson, and who in his earlier days furnished the incidental music-tearful, light and stirring-to go with the dra- matic acting of the Gish sisters, Monte Blue, and Mack Sennett. Candy Candido Is Here Other featured artists with the band are "Candy" Candido, the little man with 1,000mvoices, Novoline Payne, the charming girl vocalist, Frank Flynn, drummer and vocalist, and the Steven Swingaroos, a band within a band that takes care of the Fio Rito jam sessions. The maestro began his career by pounding out melodies in a honky tonk theatre in Newark when he was only 16 years old. Two years later he organized his own band and began his climb to national fame. He start- ed broadcasting to the nation back in the days of the old crystal sets. Today the Fio Rito hands are in- sured for $300,000 and Ted has not only become known as a conductor and a piano player, but a composer too. He has been responsible for such outstandinghits as "No, No Nora," "I Never Knew," "King For a Day," "Laugh, Clown, Laugh," "Now That You're Gone" and "Swinging Annie Laurie Through the Rye." THE MICHIGAN DAILY Saturday, February 10, 1940 Newest Deal Sneaks Some More Relatives On Payroll Dictator Dorsey Appoints ished or whether it should be con- Trio Of Jive-Hounds tinued in order to provide funds for the purchase of caviar, stuffed olives, To Advisory Council marinated herring and old tin cans to be served free in all bars. By LATERAL AGREEMENT Committees for the prevention of Thomas X.Y.Z. Dorsey, newly elect- studying or of doing any serious work ed dictator ofnJayhopmania and his of any kind will also be appointed by righthand man, Theodore Fio Rito, the Dictator at the Council meet- announced late yesterday the appoint- ing, it was rumored. The members ment of three new councilmen to the of these committees may possibly be last vacant posts in the Grand Sigh armed with the power to banish of- Exalted Advisory Council, bringing fenders to a semester of work at Mi- the total of members to 16. chigan State College or the Univer- A. Flat Major, A. Major Flat, and sity of Michigan, semi-official sources Major A. Flat, all ex-members of reported. the class of 1941 at the University of Michigan, were named to office by Dictator Dorsey because of out- standing work in evading assignments to partake of musical and liquid en- tertainment while still within the halls of their former alma mater. (It will be recalled that the University of Michigan has long been rumored to be an institution of higher education on the bonnie, bonnie banks of the Huron, in the heart of the worst climate-zone of the Western Hem- isphere.) HEN Call To Assembly The first assembly of the Council to The Ann will be held between 1:07 a.m. to- morrow in Joe's Beer Jernt, located printing it at the corner of Rie and Burbun Avenues, for the purpose of design- ambitious, f ing decrees against the immigration of non-drunken professors, staff of busy The immigration question, accord- ing to Dictator Dorsey, presents a we get the b definite problem to all citizens of Jay- hopmania, it being rumored that because wet hordes of disillusioned professors, re- cently resigned from the faculty of of printing the University of Michigan (a pre- posterously unpleasant place five days pogram or and nights a week), are bearing down prga on our fair land. They claim the right to citizenship on the basis of and suggests the fact that one or two of their con- freres attended the J-Hop, Dorsey they sometir continued. 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