- He also played with Al Hirt, with whose sextet (with Gerald Hirt, Fred Crane, Jay Cave, Jimmy Zitano) he also made a guest appearance at New York's Carnegie Hall.
- Spitelara also appeared on numerous television shows such as The Dinah Shore Chevy Show (1956), Dixieland at Disneyland (1964), and The Dodge Dancing Party (1955).
- He worked in the mid-1950s in the band of trumpeter Roy Liberto and Tony Almerico's Dixieland All-Stars, with whom the first recordings were made in 1956.
- In Nashville in 1965 he worked with musicians such as Floyd Cramer, Fred Crane and Bob Moore; he recorded titles such as "LeRoy's Tune" and "Creole Clarinet" under his own name.
- From 1965 onwards, in addition to the two LPs Pee Wee Plays Pretty and Country Clarinet, he released a series of singles for RCA Victor in the easy-listening genre, such as "Blue Clarinet", "Show Me Where the Good Times Are" and "Wabash Cannonball". .
- Spitelera began his career in New Orleans; with Murphy Campo and others he played at jam sessions and formed teenage jazz groups.
- In the field of jazz, according to Tom Lord (a Canadian jazz discographer), he was involved in 22 recording sessions between 1956 and 1978.
- From the late 1970s he was still involved in recordings by Harry Connick junior (Dixieland Plus) and The New New Orleans Jazz Band.
- He was an American jazz and entertainment musician. He played the clarinet and was also a composer.
- In the sixties he was a clarinetist in the Al Hirts Club in New Orleans; and he was also involved in Hirt's recordings such as He's the King (1961), At the Mardi Gras (1962), Our Man in New Orleans (1963) and Beauty and the Beard (1964, with Ann-Margret).
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