Ray Noble

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

Noble grew up in London and attended Dulwich College. He studied piano and arranging and won a competition for arrangers, after which he was hired by the music publisher Lawrence Wright. In 1928 he was a staff arranger for the BBC dance orchestra under Jack Payne. In 1929 he became head of the studio band for "His Master 's Voice" ( HMV Records ), which were the singer Al Bowlly very popular as "The New Mayfair Dance Orchestra " with (from 1930). She even received an invitation in New York at the Rainbow Room ( a famous restaurant - club in the 65th floor of the GE Building at Rockefeller Center ) to play. Bowly returned to England, Noble remained, led bands and embodied as an actor the English "upper class " gentleman - in radio shows also both simultaneously. The singer Buddy Clark in the late 1940s he was again successful. As a songwriter and composer come from him " The Very Thought of You" (1934 ), " Love is the Sweetest Thing ", " The Touch of your Lips ", "I Had not Anyone Till You," " Guilty ," " Midnight, the Stars and You " (known from Stanley Kubrick's " The Shining " ) and the original version of the famous by Charlie Barnet hit and Charlie Parker's interpretations of jazz standards " Cherokee ( Indian Love song) ".