Beginning with Pat Boone, LaVorgna began a long career in the pop music field, working with singers such as Eddie Fisher, Bobby Darin, Judy Garland, James Brown, the Four Seasons, and The Toys, ringing up 19 million-sellers and many number one records.
He performed with Sam Most, Stan Free, Toots Thielemans, Phil Woods, Spanky McFarlane, Marvin Stamm, Patrick Williams, Gary McFarland, and Paul Desmond.
In the 1970s he also recorded with Gary Burton, Urbie Green, Joe Thomas, Kimiko Kasai, Bobby Scott, Barbara Carroll, and Ralph Burns.
[5] One of LaVorgna's earliest live collaborations with Minnelli was a week-long engagement at the Latin Casino in Cherry Hill, New Jersey, in January 1977.
Minnelli claims she and LaVorgna developed a fast friendship when he espied her, at age 13, driving her mother's car around Las Vegas and smoking, and yet he never told on her.
A New Jersey native, he lived in Princess Anne on the Eastern Shore of Maryland for twenty years, where he raised and trained sporting dogs.