Henry Hall (bandleader)

Henry Hall (* May 2, 1898, † 28 October 1989) was a British musician and bandleader. Its active time ranged from the 20s to the 50s of the 20th century.

Henry Hall was born in Peckham, London, and completed his military service in the British Army. His musical career turned out to be the beginning of even more slowly, but he was later hired by the London, Midland and Scottish Railway to provide in their hotel chains for musical entertainment, including, among others, in Gleneagles, where he was already active as a bandleader before. He was then discovered by the BBC in 1932 and occupied as a successor to Jack Payne in the function of the leader of the band BBC Orchestra Hall which subsequently earned a large following. His former trademark was the beginning of the program the line " It's Just the Time for Dancing " ( "It is the right time to dance " ) and at the end mostly " Here's to the Next Time" ( " Until next time " ). 1932 Henry Hall took on the song Teddy Bears' Picnic with the BBC Orchestra band, which is about a million times sold and proved to be extremely popular.

1937 Hall left the BBC to go on tour with his band, which are largely composed of people who already worked together on the BBC with him. During his appearances he toured concert halls across the UK and the rest of Europe, where he made an occasion for turmoil as he at a gig in Berlin ruled by the Nazis parts of his performance, which came from Jewish composer was omitted.

During the Second World War, Henry Hall played for the troops to raise the morale and later expanded its activities to the tasks of music producers and agents. He also was still directing the BBC show Henry Hall 's Guest Night, which was later sent over radio and television, as well as the program Face the Music.

His son, Michael, served in the Royal Navy and later joined also into show business to eventually develop into a well-known chairman at the Player's Theatre in London.

Hall wrote an autobiography titled Here's to the Next Time. From his appearance on BBC The Voice of Britain from 1935, a speech excerpt was created with the line " This is Henry Hall speaking", which was alive and well at later times for contemporary documentation.