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Frankie Carle

real name Francis Nunzio Carlone

Providence, United States · 1903-03-25 – 2001-03-07

Frankie Carle is credited on 1,386 releases across 344 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1950–2021 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.

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1,386

Credits

344

Albums

8

Decades active

73

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American pianist, songwriter and bandleader. Father of Marjorie Hughes and uncle. Born 25 March 1903, Providence, Rhode Island. Died 7 March 2001, Mesa, Arizona.
A popular bandleader in the 1940s and 1950s, Carle was nicknamed "The Wizard of the Keyboard". His song "Sunrise Serenade", co-written by Carle with Jack Lawrence, three times went to #1 on the U.S. charts, by Glen Gray and the Casa Loma Orchestra, by Carle and his orchestra, and by Frank Sinatra. He had 11 songs chart as a songwriter and 14 as an orchestra, including two #1's in "Oh! What It Seemed to Be" and "Rumor Are Flying" both in 1946.

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1,386 releases · 344 albums · active 1950–2021

  • Performance · 1,706
  • Other credits · 43

Studios: Sahara Hotel & Casino, Las Vegas · RCA Victor Studios, Nashville · RCA Victor's Music Center Of The World · Santa Monica Civic Auditorium

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