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Raymond "Ray" Stanley Noble (b. December 17, 1903 in Brighton; † April 2, 1978 in London[1]) was a British big band leader, 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 employed by music publisher Lawrence Wright. In 1928, he became a permanent arranger for the BBC Dance Orchestra under Jack Payne. In 1929, he became leader of the studio band on "His Master's Voice" (HMV Records), which became very popular as "The New Mayfair Dance Orchestra" with (from 1930) singer Al Bowlly. They even received an invitation to play in New York at the Rainbow Room (a well-known restaurant-club on the 65th floor of the GE Building in Rockefeller Center). Bowlly returned to England, Noble stayed, leading bands and impersonating the English "upper class" gentleman as an actor - even doing both at the same time in radio shows. He appeared in seven Hollywood films, including the musical film ''The Big Broadcast'' of 1936 and portrayed a naive aristocratic son in ''A Damsel in Distress'' with Fred Astaire.

He had another successful run with singer Buddy Clark in the late 1940s. As a songwriter and composer, he originated "The Very Thought of You" (1934), "Love is the Sweetest Thing," "The Touch of your Lips," "I Hadn't Anyone Till You," "Guilty," "Midnight, the Stars and You" (known from Stanley Kubrick's film The Shining) and the original version of the jazz standard "Cherokee (Indian Love Song)" made famous by Charlie Barnet's hit and Charlie Parker's interpretations.

Note: Translated from the German version of Wikipedia into English.