Ray Noble

Love is the Sweetest Thing

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Love is the sweetest thing
What else on earth could ever bring
Such happiness to everything
As love's old story

Love is the strangest thing
No song of birds upon the wing
Shall in our hearts so sweetly sing
That love's old story

Whatever heart may desire
Whatever fate may send
This is the song that never will tire
This is the song without end

Love is the greatest thing
The oldest, yet the latest thing
I only hope that fate may bring
Love's story to you

Whatever heart may desire
Whatever fate may send

Love is the sweetest thing
Love is the greatest thing
Love is the greatest thing
This is the song that never will tire
This is the song without end

Love is the greatest thing
The oldest, yet the latest thing
I only hope that fate may bring
Love's story to you

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sillybunny On Sep 19, 2006

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[Wikipedia] Ray Noble was a British bandleader, composer, arranger and actor. Noble was born in Brighton, England on December 17, 1903 and died in London on April 3, 1978. Noble studied music at Cambridge and became leader of the HMV Records studio band in 1929. The band, known as the New Mayfair Dance Orchestra, featured members of many of the top hotel orchestras of the day. The most popular vocalist with Noble's studio band was Al Bowlly.

The Bowlly/Noble recordings achieved popularity in the United States. Union bans prevented Noble from taking British musicians to America so he arranged for Glenn Miller to recruit American musicians. The American Ray Noble band had a successful run at the Rainbow Room in New York City with Bowlly as principal vocalist.

Bowlly returned to England but Noble continued to lead bands in America, moving into an acting career portraying a stereotypical upper-class English idiot. His last major successes as a bandleader came with Buddy Clark in the late 1940s.

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