Torrie Zito
Birth : 1933-10-12, Utica, New York, USA
Death : 2009-12-03
History
Freelance composer and arranger for recordings, musical commercials and television industrial films. As a teenager, he began working as a pianist in clubs. He later worked with Bobby Darin, Tony Bennett, Frank Sinatra, Perry Como, Liza Minnelli, and Clay Aiken, and he provided the string orchestrations for a number of records, including the John Lennon album "Imagine". He also did arranging for Doc Severinsen and the NBC Orchestra on "The Tonight Show".