money to return home. This was the first full-length television musical, and was presented on the DuMont Television Network in 1944. The television presentation of the musical was sponsored by Esquire magazine. Manning appeared earlier in that year on DuMont's Key-Bored Televisual Presentations as a pianist. Manning also was an arranger and vocal coach, and wrote radio jingles. Manning, the father of two daughters and a son, died of diabetes-related complications in Marietta, Georgia on April 11, 1991. Published songs Songs written by Al Hoffman and Dick Manning "Allegheny Moon" (1956) "Dennis the Menace" (1960) "Gilly Gilly Ossenfeffer Katzenellen Bogen by the Sea" (1954) "Hawaiian Wedding Song" (1958-English version) "Hot Diggity" (1956) "I Can't Tell a Waltz from a Tango" (1954) "I Love Her, That's Why!" (for George Burns and Gracie Allen) (1955) "Mama, Teach Me to Dance" (1956) "Mi Casa, Su Casa (My House Is Your House)" (1957) "Moon Talk" (1958) "O Dio Mio" (1960) "Takes Two to Tango" (1952) Songs written by Al Hoffman, Dick Manning and another collaborator "Are You Really Mine?" (1958) (with Mark Markwell) "Make Me a Miracle" (1958) (with Mark Markwell) "Oh-Oh, I'm Falling in Love Again" (1958) (with Mark Markwell) "Papa Loves Mambo" (1954) (with Bix Reichner) "Secretly" (1958) (with Mark Markwell) Other songs "Jilted" (with Robert Colby) "Fascination" (lyrics) "(She Will Never Love You) Like I Do" "Not I" (with Sammy Gallop) "Walkin' With My Honey" (with Buddy Kaye) "Start the Day with a Song" (with Buddy Kaye) "Morning Side of the Mountain" Work on Broadway The Fifth Season (1975) - musical - composer and lyricist References External links Sam Medoff and the Yiddish Swingtet at Amazon Sam Medoff and the Yiddish Swingtet at Congregation Shaar Hashomayim 1912 births 1991 deaths People from Gomel Orchestra leaders Songwriters from New York (state) Jewish American songwriters Jewish American musicians American male conductors (music) Musicians from New York City Juilliard School alumni 20th-century American conductors (music) Classical musicians from New York (state) 20th-century American male musicians 20th-century American Jews American male songwriters Emigrants from the Russian Empire to the United States