Word: raye
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...young Briton ambled down London's Charing Cross Road, turned into Denmark Street (equivalent of Manhattan's Tin-Pan Alley), sought out a publisher who might be sympathetic. The young man had a tune to sell. He played it on the piano; the publisher asked its name. Ray Noble thought quickly. "Why, call it 'Goodnight, Sweetheart,' " he said. Thereupon Ray Noble's own name was made...
Never was a song more cruelly abused. Yet many realized that it was a rare, good tune in its smooth, nostalgic style. And it served to turn attention to quiet Ray Noble, no ordinary, illiterate, catchpenny songwriter but the well-mannered son of a well-to-do London neurologist and a nephew of T. Tertius Noble, the venerated organist of St. Thomas' Episcopal Church in Manhattan. Organist Noble has never been known to hum "Goodnight, Sweetheart." Nor has he ever met his nephew, famed now for having turned out some of the best dance records in England. But only...
...Rainbow Room wanted Ray Noble for its opening last autumn (TIME, Oct. 8). His phonograph record vogue was tremendous. He had written more sure tunes: "Love is the Sweetest Thing," "Love Locked Out," "The Very Thought of You." But when he arrived in September he found the Musicians' Union wary of "foreigners." Not until February was he allowed to assemble an orchestra. Two weeks later he was broadcasting for Coty Perfume...
...Rainbow Room customers expected to see a showman last week they were roundly disappointed when quiet Ray Noble conducted his men. His easy gestures were all from the wrist. Occasionally he tapped his foot, sometimes sat at a piano, pattered a bit. He had gathered first-rate U. S. players and, unlike many a conductor, he freely admits his debt to them. Trombonist Glen Miller is one of the best "hot men" in the U. S. And so is Bud Freeman, Noble's tenor saxophone. Only two of the musicians came from London with Noble: Bill Harty, his manager...
...arrangements himself. And they are all smoothly polished, all rich in counterpoint, most of them sweet, none sissy. Many of his introductions are almost symphonic. Yet Noble never forgets that he plays for dancing and his rhythm never flags. Even "Goodnight, Sweetheart" is a sturdy swinging tune when Ray Noble plays...