Murray Kane papers, 1937-1985

Murray Kane was born in 1915 in Brooklyn, New York with the name Moses Simon Kaplan. In high school, he and Hal Kanner had a musical radio show on WNEW in New York. After graduation, the two men went on the road, playing clubs. They added a female vocalist and called themselves, The Manhattanites, later changed to Two Bees and A Honey. After Daisy Brennier joined the group, they signed on with Fred Waring and his Pennsylvanians and did five 15-minute radio shows per week, sponsored by Chesterfiled Cigarettes. During World War II, Captain Kane joined the Glenn Miller Army Air Force Orchestra overseas for the duration of the war. After the war he became a talent agent in New York City. He managed and wrote for the DeMarco Sisters and got them permanently on to the Fred Allen radio show. He managed the McGuire Sisters from the beginning of their careers in 1950 through 1968 and restarted them in 1984 with the song, "The Second Time Arou nd". He moved to Las Vegas in 1975 and died January 31, 1986.