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Wed 22 Jun, 2005 11:50 pm
This is really a long shot! I have a tape of the late Bob Crane (Hogan's Heroes) presenting one of his shows when a DJ for radio KNX in Los Angeles in the early 60s. During the program he played a track from an Lp and announced it as "the piano team of Schneider and Manning". They played the main theme from the 1954 Broadway show "Fanny" later made into a film (1961). I have been looking for any reference to this piano duo on the Net for some time now and so far have turned up a big fat zero. They sound very professional -- big orchestral and chorus backing. Very similar to Ferrante & Teicher. I'm surprised that the major search engines don't throw up any reference to them at all. Has any forum member ever heard of them? I can send an MP3 sound clip to anyone if it would help.
On the same program Crane also plays "Rose Room" by pianist Frankie Carle and Jerry Vale singing "Al-Di-La" in English. These are also hard to track down. There are plenty of MP3s of Jerry's Italian version, but not the English one which was probably recorded earlier.
So there we are. Ring a bell with anyone?