Ray Martin

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Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
Dynamica
  US 43 08/14/1961 (6 weeks)
Singles
Blue Tango
  UK 8th 11/14/1952 (4 weeks)
Crying in the Chapel (with Lee Lawrence )
  UK 7th 11/20/1953 (6 weeks)
Swedish Rhapsody
  UK 4th December 04, 1953 (4 weeks)
Suddenly There's a Valley (with Lee Lawrence )
  UK 14th December 2nd, 1955 (4 weeks)
The Carousel Waltz
  UK 24 06/15/1956 (3 weeks)

Ray Martin (born October 11, 1918 in Vienna , † February 7, 1988 in Johannesburg , South Africa ; full name Raymond Stuart Martin , born Kurt Kohn ) was a British arranger and orchestra conductor .

biography

Martin grew up in Austria and studied violin and composition at the Vienna Music Academy . In 1937 he went to England, where he appeared as a violinist in a vaudeville show. He later joined the British Army and was assigned to the Enlightenment for his language skills. Due to his musical training, however, he then became a composer and arranger for the Royal Air Force Central Band. After the war he worked for the British military radio in Hamburg, where he put together his own orchestra from the Hamburg Philharmonic for the program Melody from the Sky . The program ran over 500 times on the BBC.

From 1949 he also made recordings with his own orchestra and with singers such as Julie Andrews and Lee Lawrence . With his recordings of Blue Tango and Swedish Rhapsody as well as the Elvis hit Crying in the Chapel with singer Lawrence, he had top 10 hits in the British charts. Five albums came out with the Piccadilly Strings . As a composer he is registered for more than 1200 titles and from 1954 he also wrote the music for several films.

In 1957 he went to the USA, where he recorded a number of albums for RCA Records , including his best known and most successful, Dynamica . As arranger, he was responsible for the Living Brass series of albums in the Tijuana Sound, as popularized by Herb Alpert .

He returned to the UK in 1972 and finally moved to South Africa eight years later, where he died of cancer in 1988 at the age of 69.

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  1. ^ The Billboard Albums by Joel Whitburn , 6th Edition, Record Research 2006, ISBN 0-89820-166-7
  2. ^ British Hit Singles & Albums , 18th Edition, Guinness World Records Limited 2005, ISBN 9781904994008
  3. ↑ Ray Martin. musiques-regenerees.fr, accessed on August 4, 2018 .

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personal data
SURNAME Martin, Ray
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Martin, Raymond Stuart (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British arranger and orchestra leader
DATE OF BIRTH October 11, 1918
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna , Austria
DATE OF DEATH February 7, 1988
Place of death Johannesburg , South Africa