Jack Payne

Jack Payne ( born August 22, 1899 in Leamington Spa ( Warwickshire ) and John Wesley Vivian Payne, † December 4, 1969 in London) was a British director of dance orchestras.

Life and work

Payne, who ableiste his war service in the Royal Air Force, first played by the way as a pianist in dance orchestras, before he made ​​music for troop support. During the 1920s, he first played at dance events in London hotels before 1928 head of broadcasting dance music was brought with his band and the BBC. He quickly became " a national institution ", as he aufspielte every afternoon on the radio to the tea dance. His band in 1929 was part of the first television broadcast of the BBC; shortly after, he starred in the film Symphony in Two Flats ( 1930) with. In 1932 he set out with his orchestra independent again what a great press response elicited. He was also involved in the music films Say It with Music (1932) and Sunshine Ahead (1936) and composed three waltz, " Blue Pacific Moonlight ", " Underneath the Spanish Stars" and "Pagan Serenade". While he had to play sentimental and humorous music at the BBC, in essence, he now turned increasingly to jazz and worked in 1935 with Garland Wilson. In 1938 he founded a twenty -member big band. He also toured France and South Africa. In 1941 he was again head of the BBC dance music and retained the post until 1946. Subsequently, he worked as a disc jockey before he hosted at the BBC Television Service broadcast the Words and Music and then Off the Record 1955. He also wrote music for television films and wrote two autobiographies, This is Jack Payne (1932) and Signature Tune ( 1947).