with Jack Plant
Mantovani, who is English in spite of his Italian name, has been broadcasting for many years now. At eighteen years of age he was leader of the Salon Orchestra at the Metropole Hotel, London, and he broadcast from there for six years.
He left the Metropole to form his own band at the Monseigneur Restaurant, Piccadilly, and it was thus that his Tipica Orchestra came into being. He gave it this name because he claims that whatever the nationality of the music played, it always sounds typical of the country of its origin.