University of Wyoming
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.
Murray Kane collection contains original and copies of musical scores such as, "I'm Just a Lonely Soul" and "Lover's Lullaby". There are notes for his comedy routine for the Glenn Miller Army Air Force Orchestra during World War II and a photograph of Kane doing his monologue for the troops, as well as a cassette recording. There are clippings and promotional items for the Manhattanites and Two Bees and A Honey from 1937 and 1938 and materials on the McGuire Sisters and their comeback in 1984 in Las Vegas. A small series of phonographs includes: 7 LPs of the McGuire Sisters from the 1960s, several Murray Kane 45s, a Murray Kane demo cassette from 1979 and a tapes recording from the Royal York in Toronto from 1985.
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There are no known other archival collections created by Murray Kane at the date of processing.
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