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Oriole Orchestra

The Oriole Orchestra, a.k.a. The Oriole Terrace Orchestra or Russo & Fiorito's Oriole Orchestra. The orchestra, led by [a=Dan Russo] and [a=Ted Fiorito], was named after its engagement at the Oriole Terrace ballroom in Detroit, which it opened in October 1922. Later, the band played at Chicago's Edgewater Beach Hotel, from where it broadcast in 1924, and in 1926, it opened Chicago's famous Aragon Ballroom. Fiorito and Russo split up in 1927. Russo continued to use the Oriole name for recordings of his own band as late as 1932.