Editing Van and Schenck (section)

==History==
With Schenck on piano, the duo sang and performed [[comedy]] routines. Van was especially adept at dialect humor, and could imitate any number of regional and continental accents. One of the team's typical novelty hits was ''[[Pastafazoola]],'' in praise of Italian food and sung in the appropriate style. Van's hearty baritone and Schenck's high tenor harmonized well, and the team became known as "the pennant-winning battery of songland." They performed on [[radio]] shows and appeared in early talking motion pictures, including several musical shorts—in both [[Vitaphone]] and [[Movietone sound system|MGM Movietone]]—and one feature, the MGM film ''[[They Learned About Women]]'' (1930).

During World War I, they recorded humorous songs such as "I Don't Want to Get Well" which told the tale of a wounded soldier who did not want to recover, as he was comfortable in hospital and in love with a nurse.

After Schenck's death in 1930 of heart disease, Van continued to perform as a solo artist on stage, screen, and radio. He appeared in many New York-produced [[Soundies]] in 1941.  Schenck was buried in The [[Cemetery of the Evergreens]] in Brooklyn.

Van and Schenck gained a modern-day resurgence after their 1920 recording of Irving Berlin's "After You Get What You Want, You Don't Want It" was sampled in the soundtrack of the [[Indie game|indie]] video game ''[[Pizza Tower]]''.