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Stanley Black
Stanley Black

Stanley Black OBE (June 14, 1913 - November 27, 2002) was an English light music conductor, arranger and pianist. Events 1276 - While taking exile in Fuzhou in southern China, away from the advancing Mongol invaders, the remnants of the Year 1913 ( MCMXIII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Events 1095 - Pope Urban II declares the First Crusade at the Council of Clermont See also 2002 (disambiguation Year 2002 ( MMII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. England is a Country which is part of the United Kingdom. Its inhabitants account for more than 83% of the total UK population whilst its mainland Light music is a generic term applied to a mainly British musical style of "light" orchestral music which originated in the 19th Century and had its heyday during He wrote and arranged many film scores and recorded prolifically for the Decca label (including London and Phase 4). Decca Records is a British Record label established in 1929 by Edward Lewis. Beginning with jazz collaborations with American musicians such as Coleman Hawkins and Benny Carter during the 1930s, he moved into arranging and recording in the Latin American style and also won awards for his classical conducting. Coleman Randolph Hawkins ( November 21 1904 - May 19 1969) Nicknamed "Hawk" and sometimes "Bean" was a prominent Bennett Lester Carter (born August 8, 1907 in Harlem New York; died July 12, 2003 in Los Angeles California) was

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Life

Stanley Black (Solomon Schwartz) was born in 1913 in Whitechapel, England. Whitechapel is a built-up Inner city district in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, England. England is a Country which is part of the United Kingdom. Its inhabitants account for more than 83% of the total UK population whilst its mainland His parents were Polish and Romanian Jews. [1] He began piano lessons at the age of seven. The piano is a Musical instrument played by means of a keyboard that produces sound by striking steel strings with Felt covered hammers He was aged only 12 when his first composition was broadcast by the BBC Symphony Orchestra and continued his early success by winning a Melody Maker arranging competition aged 18. Melody Maker, published in the United Kingdom, was according to its publisher IPC Media, the world's oldest weekly Music Newspaper

In the early 1930s he was employed as a jazz player and composer and had worked with Howard Jacobs, Joe Orlando, Lew Stone, Maurice Winnick and Teddy Joyce by the time he joined Harry Roy in 1936. Jazz is an American Musical art form which originated in the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States Joe Orlando ( April 4, 1927, Bari, Italy — December 23, 1998) was an illustrator writer editor and cartoonist Lew Stone (1898–1969 was a British dance band leader and arranger Harry Roy, born Harry Lipman ( January 12, 1900, in Stamford Hill, London &ndash February 1, 1971, in London Year 1936 ( MCMXXXVI) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. He had also broadcast and recorded with several American jazz bands, including Coleman Hawkins, who had first heard Black on late night radio shows with Lew Stone’s band. Coleman Randolph Hawkins ( November 21 1904 - May 19 1969) Nicknamed "Hawk" and sometimes "Bean" was a prominent When the two eventually met in London, the reviewer Edgar Jackson suggested they record together, and a notable collaboration is a duet version of Honeysuckle Rose. London ( ˈlʌndən is the capital and largest urban area in the United Kingdom. " Honeysuckle Rose " is a 1928 song composed by Fats Waller, with lyrics written by Andy Razaf.

During World War II, he joined the Royal Air Force, and became involved in managing the entertainment of servicemen based at Wolverhampton. World War II, or the Second World War, (often abbreviated WWII) was a global military conflict which involved a majority of the world's nations, including In 1944 he was appointed conductor of the BBC Dance Orchestra, and remained in the job for almost nine years, broadcasting as many as six nights a week. Year 1944 ( MCMXLIV) was a Leap year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar.

By this time he had also begun recording under his own name for Decca. Now well involved with the film industry, he went on to compose, arrange and direct music for about 200 more films, notably after being appointed music director at Elstree Studios in 1958. Historically the name " Elstree Studios " refers to any of several Film studios that were based in the towns of Borehamwood and Elstree in Year 1958 ( MCMLVIII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. He was also principal conductor of the Associated British Picture Corporation Orchestra and musical director composer of that organisation from 1958-1963. Associated British Picture Corporation (ABPC originally British International Pictures (BIP was a British film production distribution and exhibition company

Stanley Black’s radio work kept him in contact with a large listening audience through his incidental music for shows such as Much Binding in the Marsh and The Goon Show. Much-Binding-in-the-Marsh was the title of a comical BBC radio and Radio Luxembourg show broadcast from 1944 to 1954 starring Kenneth Horne The Goon Show was a British Radio comedy programme originally produced and broadcast by the BBC Home Service from 1951 to 1960 He later went on to present his own programmes on radio and television, including Black Magic and The Marvellous World of Stanley Black. This undoubtedly contributed to the success of his commercial recordings and concerts with his own orchestra.

In the early 1950s he regularly topped the "Melody Maker" lists of the most-heard musicians on radio. Melody Maker, published in the United Kingdom, was according to its publisher IPC Media, the world's oldest weekly Music Newspaper He was chosen to be included on Decca’s first release of long-playing records in the UK in June 1950. A gramophone This enabled him to continue his conducting, arranging and performing and resulted in a large number of albums which made him one of the most prolific recording artists in the world. He was particularly popular in America, as evidenced by his inclusion in the "Billboard" best-sellers lists. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the

During his life, he conducted many of Britain’s major orchestras, and until the 1990s he was still directing regular broadcast sessions at the BBC studios, despite the onset of deafness in later life.

Stanley Black received numerous awards, including the OBE. The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British Order of chivalry established on 4 June 1917 by King George V. He was made a life fellow of the Institute of Arts and Letters, and life president of the Celebrities Guild of Great Britain. He died in London in 2002, aged 89.

Works

Stanley Black is well remembered for writing numerous scores for radio, television and cinema, including the theme-tune for The Goon Show and his orchestral backing for Cliff Richard's 1962 film Summer Holiday, which won him an Ivor Novello Award. The Goon Show was a British Radio comedy programme originally produced and broadcast by the BBC Home Service from 1951 to 1960 Sir Cliff Richard, OBE, (born Harry Roger Webb on 14 October 1940 is an English Singer, Actor and Businessman. The Ivor Novello Awards, named after the Cardiff born entertainer Ivor Novello, are Awards for Songwriting and Composing.

Other films he composed scores for include It Always Rains on Sunday (1948), Laughter in Paradise (1951), The Naked Truth (1957), Too Many Crooks (1958), The Long and the Short and the Tall (1961), and another Cliff Richard musical The Young Ones (1961). The Young Ones (US title "Wonderful to Be Young!" is a British musical released in 1961, featuring singer Cliff Richard. His work also became familiar to millions of cinema audiencs as a consequence of his theme tune for Pathé News, written in 1960. This article deals with the Pathé movie company For their music business see Pathé Records.

He also recorded many classical works, including collections of Tchaikovsky and George Gershwin. George Gershwin (September 26 1898 &ndash July 11 1937 was an American Composer. In 1965 he won a Gramophone Award for his version of Rimsky-Korsakov’s Capriccio Espagnol. Nikolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov ( Николай Андреевич Римский-Корсаков, Nikolaj Andreevič Rimskij-Korsakov) also Nikolay In addition, he arranged and conducted many commercially successful albums on LP and later CD like Tropical Moonlight, Cuban Moonlight, Black Magic, and series of Film Spectacular and Broadway Spectacular for London Decca Records. London Decca is a manufacturer of Phonograph tonearms and pick-up cartridges.

Selected Discography

References

  1. ^ CD sleeve note cited at [1]

External links

Robert Joseph Farnon ( July 24, 1917 &ndash April 22, 2005) was a Canadian -born composer conductor allmusic (previously All Music Guide) is a Metadata database about music owned by All Media Guide.
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