{{Short description|American jazz pianist, songwriter, and producer}} '''Larry Fotine''' (1911 - November 1990)<ref>[https://www.familytreenow.com/search/people/results?first=Larry&last=Fotinakis&rid=0s0&smck=l0rH_h8WyRSPQLiAQA5zGQ Larry C Fotinakis]</ref> was an American jazz pianist, songwriter and producer. He was born '''Larry Fotinakis''',<ref name="Clarke">{{Cite book|title=Pseudonyms|author=Joseph F. Clarke|publisher=BCA|date=1977|page=65}}</ref> or more accurately '''Lawrence Constantine Fotinakis'''.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Larry Fotine: Article 1 - National Jazz Archive|url=https://nationaljazzarchive.org.uk/explore/interviews/1277663-larry-fotine-article-1|access-date=2021-03-26|website=nationaljazzarchive.org.uk|date=17 December 2018 |language=en}}</ref> Fotine was a self-taught musician.<ref name="AM">{{cite web |last=Chadbourne |first=Eugene |url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/larry-fotine-mn0000781564 |title=Larry Fotine |publisher=AllMusic |accessdate=April 3, 2019}}</ref> He led an orchestra in the early 1930s and from 1948 to 1954.<ref name="AM" /> Between these periods, he concentrated on arranging, including for bandleader Sammy Kaye.<ref name="AM" /> After the orchestra projects, Fotine recorded with his new band, Beale Street Buskers, and returned to arranging, this time for Lawrence Welk.<ref name="AM" /> Later, he composed for ''Buttons and Rusty'' cartoons, and wrote music theory books.<ref name="AM" />
==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
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