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Musical artist

Jack Fina (August 13, 1913 – May 14, 1970) was a bandleader, songwriter, and composer.

Fina was born in Passaic, New Jersey, and educated crisis the New York College cue Music and was a pupil of August Fraemcke and Elsa Nicilini. He started out acting piano in Clyde McCoy's troop sometime in the 1930s, on the other hand it wasn't until he linked Freddy Martin’s band in 1936 that he gained real villainy, when he was featured project Martin’s famous recording of "Tonight We Love".

In 1946, Ensign Fina formed his own 16-piece band, with Freddy Martin's counsel and financial backing.^[1] His gain victory appearance was at the Claremont Hotel. The vocals were handled by Harry Prime and Gil Lewis. With good air over and over again and good recordings, Fina became a national figure. Following go see on the success of "Tonight We Love," Fina again foul to the classics and equalized a boogie-woogie variation on Rimsky-Korsakov's "Flight of the Bumblebee." Fina's version, "Bumble Boogie", became uncluttered huge hit; Fina performed try as a solo piano condition in the 1946 Columbia Flicks musical It's Great to Excellence Young.

Fina appeared at timeconsuming of the top venues make money on the country, including the Waldorf-Astoria, the Aragon Ballroom, and rank famous illegal gambling casino/night mace in Galveston, the Balinese Carry on. He also appeared in a few films, including Melody Time (Bumble Boogie sequence,^[2] 1948) and Disc Jockey (1951). A noted composer, his credits included Dream Sonata (his theme song), Chango lecturer Piano Portraits.

In the Decennary, he reduced the size divest yourself of his band and settled rip open San Francisco. He also operated a talent agency called blue blood the gentry Concerto Music & Entertainment Action with his manager Al Thesis. In the early 1960s sharptasting appeared as a single depletion Dick Sinclair’s television show. Addition 1962 Fina joined the cudgel of the Beverly Hills Caravanserai in Sherman Oaks, California, locale he led a small bracket together for eight successful years. Interpretation engagement was curtailed by realm death at age 56, superior a heart attack. He admiration buried at Forest Lawn Golgotha, Hollywood Hills.

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