MGM's 1942 release of the lesser Abbott & Costello film "Rio Rita" bore little resemblance to either the original 1927 Ziegfeld play "Rio Rita" or to the 1929 movie version with Wheeler & Woolsey. But it did provide a timely excuse for Ted Fio Rito to show off his band's more modern "today" sound with this new recording of the band's theme song, first popularized in 1927 via recordings by Ben Selvin and Nat Shilkret.
LP audio, originally issued on 78rpm: Decca 4258 - Rio Rita (McCarthy-Tierney) by Ted Fio Rito & his Orchestra, vocal by Bob Carroll, recorded in Los Angeles February 10, 1942
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