Al Caiola
b. Alexander Emil Caiola, 7 September 1920, Jersey City, New Jersey, USA. A highly respected studio guitarist, Caiola played with many big name musical directors such as Percy Faith, Hugo Winterhalter and Andre Kostelanetz. After serving as musical arranger and conductor for United Artists Records, Caiola released several singles on RCAduring the '50s, including Delicado, a Brazilian song written by Walter Azevedo, which became a hit for Percy Faith, Stan Kenton, Ralph Flanagan and Dinah Shore. Caiola also released SERENADE IN BLUE and DEEP IN A DREAM, recorded by his Quintet. In 1961 he entered the US Top 40 charts with the movie theme THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN and BONANZA, the title music from the popular western television series; he had his own television show for a short time in the USA.