Editing Desi Arnaz (section)

===Career post-military===
On December 1, 1945, Arnaz formed another orchestra, which was successful in live appearances and recordings.<ref>Who's Who in Hollywood! By Terry Rowan, Desi Arnaz, page 15</ref> He sang for troops in Birmingham Hospital with John Macchia and hired his childhood friend [[Marco Rizo]] to play piano and arrange for the orchestra. For the 1946–47 season, Arnaz was the bandleader, conducting his Desi Arnaz Orchestra, on [[Bob Hope]]'s radio show (''[[The Pepsodent Show]]'') on [[NBC]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.biography.com/actor/desi-arnaz|title=Desi Arnaz|website=Biography.com|access-date=June 26, 2020|date=April 27, 2017}}</ref>

In 1951, Arnaz was given a game show on [[CBS Radio]], ''Your Tropical Trip'' to entice Arnaz and Ball to stay at CBS over a competing offer from NBC, and to keep Arnaz and his band employed and in Hollywood, rather than touring. The musical game show, hosted by Arnaz and featuring Arnaz's orchestra, had audience members competing for a Caribbean vacation. The program aired from January 1951 until September, shortly before the premiere of ''I Love Lucy'' in October.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1991/10/17/the-best-of-babalu/8cfa305f-8c13-4ab2-a7cf-78c77c26e128/|title=The Best Of 'Babalu'|first=Tom|last=Spain|date=October 17, 1991|access-date=December 6, 2020|newspaper=The Washington Post}}</ref>

When he became successful in television, he kept the orchestra on his payroll, and Rizo arranged and orchestrated the music for ''[[I Love Lucy]]''.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Queens of Comedy: Lucille Ball, Phyllis Diller, Carol Burnett, Joan Rivers, and the New Generation of Funny Women|last=Horowitz|first=Susan|publisher=Taylor & Francis|year=1997|isbn=9782884492447}}</ref>[[File:Lucy desi 1957.JPG|thumb|upright|Lucille Ball and Arnaz, 1957]]