Dick Manning was a Russian-born American songwriter, best known for his many collaborations with Al Hoffman.
Manning was born in Gomel, and came to the United States with his family when he was six years old. He studied at the Juilliard School of Music. Manning changed his name from Medoff in 1948, when he was beginning to have success with his songwriting.
In the early 1940s, he had a radio show on WHN radio in New York called Sam Medoff and His Yiddish Swing Orchestra; he performed with his ba...
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