Mr. Mangione returned to the music business, playing in the evenings with small combos and on the nightclub circuit. During the day, he worked in real estate, insurance and car sales, and later for a home improvement company.
Al "Madman" Baitch, who earned his nickname from playing the instrument in wild gyrations while lying on his back, had employed Mr. Mangione after the war.
"He was a piano player of note and worked for me after the war from 1947 through 1950. He played all the clubs and joints along East Baltimore Street and was a very fine gentleman, and clean-cut," Mr. Baitch said.
Even as the big-band era began to fade during the 1950s, Mr. Mangione continued playing swing as well as jazz and blues for such bands as the Midshipmen, June Evett Trio, Hi-Tones and Pier Five.
For many years, Mr. Mangione was the featured New Year's Eve entertainment at the Elkridge Club and the Baltimore and Valley country clubs.
He earned a devoted following playing at such area restaurants as the old Tail of the Fox in Timonium, as well as the Penn Hotel and Pine Ridge Inn in Towson.
Mr. Mangione later performed at the Four Corners Cabaret Theater in Jacksonville and later at the Corner Stable in Cockeysville, where he founded a new group, the Paul Mann Band, in the early 1970s.
In the early 1990s, Mr. Mangione retired from musicand had worked in recent years as a Baltimore County school crossing guard at Rodgers Forge Elementary School.
His marriage to Jeanne F. Blair ended in divorce.
A memorial service will be held at 11 a.m. Nov. 28 at the Mitchell-Wiedefeld Funeral Home, 6500 York Road.
Also surviving are another daughter, Suzanne M. Wight of Boulder, Colo.; and four grandchildren.
