Ted Auletta

Although pianist and arranger Ted Auletta remains best remembered for his stints behind tv bandleaders Lawrence Welk and Sammy Kaye, he also documented a 1962 exotica LP that’s much popular by collectors. Relating to a profile presented around the spaceagepop.com site, Auletta was created in NEW YORK on Oct 22, 1923, heading on to research music at NY University, Juilliard, as well as the Manhattan College of Music. He offered for several years as personnel pianist and arranger for radio train station WNEW, and continued to stints as musical movie director at such famed NY nightspots as the Tavern in the Green, the Rainbow Barbeque grill, as well as the Americana Resort. Auletta also spent 3 years leading the home band on the Resort Lexington’s Hawaiian Area, a Manhattan tiki club that afforded him adequate possibility to explore the isle textures and rhythms afterwards noted on 1962’s Exotica, a jungle-themed work issued in the Cameo label — as the record remains a preferred among exotica connoisseurs, Auletta’s various other LPs, including Dixieland Dandies, Honky Tonk Rag Pickers, and Wonderful Piano, are pretty undistinguished. Furthermore to television function alongside Welk and Kaye, Auletta was the musical movie director from the NBC summertime variety series Display ’68. In the years to check out he toured behind performers including Shirley Bassey, Jane Morgan, Julie Wilson, and Caterina Valente, but during an Irish trek with Carmel Quinn, he experienced a massive coronary attack and passed away January 22, 1979, at age just 55.