- Often toured with his fourth wife, singer Edie Adams.
- Featured in such orchestras led by Glenn Miller, Woody Herman, Stan Kenton Tommy Dorsey, Count Basie and Tex Beneke.
- Look magazine named him one of the seven all-time outstanding jazz trumpet players -- the others being Louis Armstrong, Bix Beiderbecke, Harry James, Bunny Berigan, Dizzy Gillespie and Bobby Hackett.
- Inducted into the "Big Band Hall of Fame" in 2003.
- Separated from Edie Adams in 1977 with Pete finally filing for dissolution of marriage in 1987, divorce was final on August 28,1988. They were together 5 years.
- Daughter, Carolyn, by Betty Hutton.
- Won the Down Beat, Metronome, Esquire "All American Band Trumpet Bronze Award" in 1946.
- Older brother of Conte Candoli.
- Daughter, Tara Candoli, by Vicky Lane.
- Inducted into the "International Jazz Hall of Fame" in 1997 with brother, Conte Candoli.
- Ex-stepfather of Mia Kovacs, Lindsay Briskin and Candy Briskin.
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