Ray Noble

Raymond "Ray" Stanley Noble (born December 17, 1903 in Brighton , † April 2, 1978 in London ) was a British big band leader, arranger, composer and actor.

Noble grew up in London and attended Dulwich College. He studied piano and arrangement and won a competition for arrangers, after which he was hired by music publisher Lawrence Wright. In 1928 he became a permanent arranger for the BBC dance orchestra under Jack Payne . In 1929 he became head of the studio band at " His Master's Voice " (HMV Records), which became very popular as "The New Mayfair Dance Orchestra" with (from 1930) the singer Al Bowlly . They even received an invitation to play in the Rainbow Room (a well-known restaurant club on the 65th floor of the GE Building in Rockefeller Center) in New York. Bowlly returned to England, Noble stayed, led bands and embodied the English “upper class” gentleman as an actor - both at the same time in radio shows. He played in seven Hollywood films, such as the musical film The Big Broadcast of 1936 and played a naive noble son in A Misses in Need with Fred Astaire .

With the singer Buddy Clark he was once again successful in the late 1940s. As a songwriter and composer he wrote “ The Very Thought of You ” (1934), “Love is the Sweetest Thing”, “The Touch of your Lips”, “I Hadn't Anyone Till You”, “Guilty”, “Midnight” , the Stars and You ”(known from Stanley Kubrick's film“ The Shining ”) and the original version of the jazz standard“ Cherokee (Indian Love Song) ”, known from Charlie Barnet's hit and Charlie Parker's interpretations .

Filmography

1932: His Lordship
1935: The Big Broadcast of 1936
1937: A damsel in distress (A Damsel in Distress)
1942: Pride of the Yankees (The Pride of the Yankees)
1942: Here We Go Again
1944: Lake Placid Serenade
1945: Out of This World

Web links

Individual evidence

^ Carlo Bohländer , Karl Heinz Holler, Christian Pfarr: Reclams Jazzführer . 3rd, revised and expanded edition. Reclam, Stuttgart 1989, ISBN 3-15-010355-X . April 3rd is also given as the date of death.

personal data
SURNAME	Noble, Ray
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Noble, Raymond Stanley (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	British big band leader, arranger, composer and actor
DATE OF BIRTH	December 17, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH	Brighton
DATE OF DEATH	April 2, 1978
Place of death	London

[1] Carlo Bohländer , Karl Heinz Holler, Christian Pfarr: Reclams Jazzführer . 3rd, revised and expanded edition. Reclam, Stuttgart 1989, ISBN 3-15-010355-X . April 3rd is also given as the date of death.