Ray Noble papers, 1929-1956

Overview of the Collection

Creator
Noble, Ray, 1903-1978.
Title
Ray Noble papers
Dates
1929-1956 (inclusive)
Quantity
21.29 cubic feet (28 boxes)
Collection Number
08117
Summary
Papers of British big band leader, composer, arranger, and conductor working during the twentieth century, mostly from the early 1930s to 1950s, containing music scores, phonograph records, clippings, photographs, and scrapbooks.
Repository
American Heritage Center, University of Wyoming
American Heritage Center
University of Wyoming
1000 E. University Ave.
Dept. 3924
Laramie, WY
82071
Telephone: 3077663756
ahcref@uwyo.edu
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Additional Information

Preliminary finding aid available in repository.

Languages
English

Historical NoteReturn to Top

Ray Noble (1903-1978) was a British big band leader, composer, arranger, and conductor during the twentieth century. Born in Brighton, England, Noble first came to musical prominence as leader of the New Mayfair Dance Orchestra in London, England during the late 1920s and early 1930s. He composed several hit songs recorded by the band, including "Love is the Sweetest Thing". Noble moved to the United States in 1934 and formed the Ray Noble Orchestra, which played and broadcast over NBC Radio at New York City's Rainbow Room (1935-1937). The Ray Noble Orchestra featured a number of prominent big band musicians, including vocalist Al Bowlly and trombonist and future big band leader Glenn Miller. Noble composed and arranged a number of hits recorded by the band, including "Cherokee". After disbanding the Ray Noble Orchestra in 1937, Noble moved into radio and worked as a conductor and arranger on a number of popular radio shows betwe en the late 1930s and early 1950s, including "The Chesterfield Show" and "The Chase and Sanborn Program".

Content DescriptionReturn to Top

Collection contains Ray Noble's original musical scores for songs he composed for the Ray Noble Orchestra and several radio shows. Collection also contains 78 rpm and 33 1/3 rpm records of songs recorded by the New Mayfair Dance Orchestra and Ray Noble Orchestra (including "Love is the Sweetest Thing" and "Cherokee"), radio concerts by the Ray Noble Orchestra, and music conducted and arranged by Ray Noble for a number of radio shows (including "The Chesterfield Show" and "The Chase and Sanborn Program"). Collection also holds 78 rpm phonograph records of miscellaneous performing artists, including Paul Robeson and Fred Astaire. Thirteen scrapbooks created by Noble, photographs of Noble and some of his show business colleagues, a few clippings, and a few newspapers are in this collection as well.

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Preferred Citation

Preferred Citation

Item Description, Box Number, Folder Number, Collection Name, Collection Number, American Heritage Center, University of Wyoming.

Administrative InformationReturn to Top

Preservation Note

System Requirements

Ray Noble musical recordings -- Phonograph records -- 78 rpm.

Ray Noble musical recordings -- Phonograph records -- 33 1/3 rpm.

Miscellaneous musical recordings -- Phonograph records -- 78 rpm.

Related Materials

Related Materials

There are no known other archival collections created by Ray Noble at the date of processing.

Acquisition Information

Acquisition Information

This collection material was received from Mrs. Gladys R. Noble in 1982.

Processing Note

Processing Information

This Collection was processed by Alexandra Cardin in November 2022.

Detailed Description of the CollectionReturn to Top

Series I. Music ScoresReturn to Top

Container(s) Description Dates
Complete Songs Written by Ray Noble (Manuscript)
Box
2
'A Summer Day', Suite for Piano
undated
2
But None Like You (Published Copy)
1948
2
Don't Forget
undated
2
If I Were Someone Else
1953
2
I'll Clip Ya
1953
2
Is This What Love Is
undated
2
Let's Not Have Another Party
1951
2
A Ship Is No Place For A Lady
1954 February
Box
1
Conductors' Scores for the Ray Noble Orchestra 'Book', Category #1c - I'll Dance at Your Wedding, Un-Numbered
1947 December
Miscellaneous Conductors' Scores, Numbered, Category #1d
Box
2
Arlen Medley, #431
undated
2
Arthur Schwartz Medley, #423
1948 August 19
2
Berlin Medley, #435
1948 September 4
1
Berlin One, #11
undated
2
Beyond the Sea, #428
undated
1
Chanel No. 69, #134
1947 January 5
2
China Boy, #757
undated
2
Flying Saucer, #700
1950 April 2
1
Full Moon and Empty Arms, #51
1946 May 19
1
Gershwin Medley, #416
undated
1
Holiday Medley, #417
undated
1
Kern Medley, #404
undated
1
Kerry Dance, #37
undated
1
L.D. Side 1, #231
undated
1
L.D. Side 2, #232
undated
1
L.D. Side 3, #233
undated
1
L.D. Side 4 (with L.D. II, Side 4, included), #239
undated
1
L.D. Side 5, #240
undated
1
L.D. Side 6, #247
undated
1
L.D. Side 7, #291
undated
1
L.D. Side 8, #241
undated
1
L.D. II, Side 2, #283
undated
1
L.D. II, Side 4, Part One, #285
undated
1
L.D. II, Side 5, #284
undated
1
L.D. II, Side 8, #292
undated
1
Latin Quarter Medley, #403
undated
1
Linda, #123
1946 November
2
Lullaby Of Broadway, #434
1948 September 4
1
Make Believe, #89
1946 October 20
2
Mexican Hat Dance, #484
undated
2
Negro Songs Medley, #429
1948 August 22
1
Picnic Medley, #422
undated
2
Ray Noble Medley, #630
1950 January
1
Rogers and Hart Medley, #399
undated
1
Song of the Kilt, #383
1948 July 15
1
The Swan (Le Cygne), Saint-Saens, #138
undated
1
Transportation Medley, #411
undated
1
Trolley Song, #76
undated
1
Vincent Youmans Medley, #410
undated
Miscellaneous Conductors' Scores, un-numbered, Category #1e
Box
2
Blue Danube (9 pages,Incomplete)
undated
2
I Can Dream; Don't Blame Me; That Old Feeling Medley
undated
2
I'll Know
undated
2
In An Old Dutch Garden
undated
2
L.D. Side 7
undated
2
Oh, Look At Me Now
1951 May 29
2
Ray Noble Medley
1953
2
Ray Noble Medley (San Francisco)
1951 June
2
Remember
undated
Miscellaneous Dance-Band Arrangements, Numbered, Category #2
Box
2
Japanese Sandman, #175
undated
2
Papagayo Mambo, #49
undated
2
Part One, #285
undated
2
Side Four, #285
undated
2
Tiger Rag, #130
undated
Box
4
Miscellaneous Scores and Lists
1949, 1953, undated
Miscellaneous Songs (Numbered), Instruments: 3 Trumpets, 2 Trombones, 2 Alto Saxophones, 2 Tenor Saxophones = 5 Reeds, l Baritone Saxophone, Violin I (or Violin A),Violin II (or Violin B),Violin III (or)Violin C,Piano,Bass = 3 Rhythm Instruments, Drums
Box
2-4
Opening Theme Closing Theme 3.) Wish You Were Here 4.) Because You're Mine 5.) I Can Dream 6.) Don't Let Stars... 7.) Hold, Kiss, Thrill... 8.) Why Don't You Believe 9.) Astaire Memory ... 10.) Astaire Medley ... 11.) Coquette 12.) Temptation 13.) Donkey Serenade 14.) Gershwin/One 15.) Gershwin/Two 16.) But Not For Me 17.) Lover Come Back 18.) Way You Look 19.) Paradise 20.) Remember 21.) Hold Me 22.) Oh Look At Me Know 23.) Ain't She Sweet 24.)September In the Rain 25.) Small Hotel 26.) Take Pair Sparkling 27.) Sweet William 28.) I May Be Wrong 29.) Paper Moon/Medley 30.) Night Is Young 31.) Laura 32.) Mood April/Medley 33.) I'll Know 34.) East Of Sun/Medley 35.) Old Timers'/Medley 36.) When You and I Were 17/Medley 38.) Cole Porter/Medley 39.) Cole Porter/Beguines 40.) Yesterdays 41.) Perfidia 42.) Linda Mujer 43.) Mambo del ray 44.) Kokakola Mambo 45.) Ultimo Noche & Tres Palabras 46.) Oye Negra 47.) "Whatsis" 48.) Rhumba/Medley 49.) Brazil 50.) Lying In the Hay 51.) Caravan 52.) Termite March 53.) Louise 54.) Wonderful World 55.) For You 56.) Tenderly 57.) September Song & Always You 58.) South Pacific 59.) Blue Moon: More Than You Know 60.) Out of This World 61.) Hello Young Lovers 62.) Moonlight On the Ganges 63.) The More I see You 64.) We Kiss In A Shadow 65.) All the Things You Are 66.) Haunted Heart 67.) Dancing In the Dark 68.) Sympathy 69.) Afternoon Of A Prawn 70.) Guys & Dolls/Medley 71.) Kiss Of Fire 73.) Love Is Reason 75.) Texas Medley/Vocal 77.) Always True Fashion/Vocal 79.) The Best Things In Life Are Free/Vocal 80.) I'm Always Chasin' Rainbows/Vocal 84.) Poinciana 89.) April In Portugal/Vocal. 90.) I Believe You/Vocal 91.) Ruby/optional-Vocal 92.) How To Speak To An Angel/optional-Vocal 96.) Blue Skies 104.)Cute Piece Of Property/Vocal 105.)Walkin' My Baby Back Home/Vocal 170.)Love Locked Out & Fireside 200.)Blue Danube 201.)Falling In Love With Love 204.)Poem 205.)Count Of Luxembourg 209.)Frat/Medley 210.)Sor/Medley 212.)Anniversary Waltz 224.)Western College/Medley Un-Numbered:Gypsy & 12th Street Rag; It's So Nice to Have a Man Around the House; Bunny Hop (St. Louis); No Other Love; Ray Noble Medley; Bugle Call Rag; I'll Dance At Your Wedding; How Speak to an Angel; Il Bacio
1951-1953, undated
Box
2
Music & Musical Sketches for "The Legend Of Jimmy Blue-Eyes", by Edmund Brophy, with Original Music by Ray Noble, Category #3
1956 March, undated
2
Original Song Material, Category #5
undated
Scores for the Band 'Book' (Assemblages of Tunes) of the Ray Noble Orchestra, Category #1a
Box
1
All the Things You Are, #65
undated
1
Blue Moon, More Than You Know Medley, #59
1951 June 13
1
Bugle Call Rag, Un-Numbered
1951 May 31
1
But Not For Me, #16
1951 May 19
1
Cole Porter Beguines, #39
undated
1
Cole Porter Medley, #38
undated
1
Cute Piece Of Property (Vocal), #104
undated
1
Donkey Serenade, #13
1949 October 2
1
East of The Sun; I'm a Dreamer; I'm Confessin' Medley, #34
undated
1
Gershwin Two, #15
undated
1
Guys and Dolls Medley, #70
undated
1
Hello Young Lovers, #61
1951 June 20
1
Il Bacio, Un-Numbered
1949 October 9
1
Laura, #31
undated
1
Louise, #53
undated
1
Lover Come Back to Me, #17
undated
1
Lying In the Hay, #50
undated
1
Mood-April-Time Medley, #32
undated
1
Old Timers' Medley, #35
undated
1
Temptation, #12
undated
1
Termite March, #52
undated
1
Walkin' My Baby Back Home (Vocal), #105
undated
1
We Kiss In A Shadow, #64
1951 April 4
1
When You and I Were 17 Medley, #36
undated
Box
2
Song Sketches, Category #4
undated

Series II. Phonograph RecordsReturn to Top

Container(s) Description Dates
Ambrose and His Orchestra
Box
17
Blue Again / Star Dust
undated
17
Cheek to Cheek / The Piccolino
undated
17
I'm Just Wearing Out My Heart For You / Bathing In the Sunshine
undated
17
It's a Sin to Tell a Lie / South Sea Island Magic
undated
17
Sweet and Lovely / How's Your Uncle?
undated
17
The Waltz You Saved For Me / Would You Like to Take A Walk
undated
17
You and the Night and the Music / I'm On a See-Saw
undated
17
You Are My Lucky Star / Broadway Rhythm
undated
Miscellaneous Orchestras and Performers
Box
19
After You've Gone / Man From the South (Louis Armstrong; Joe Venuti)
undated
18
Ali Baba's Camel (Cicely Courtneidge)
undated
18
Alone With My Dreams / You Forgot Your Gloves (Jack Buchanan)
undated
18
Big Chief Deerfoot On the Warpath, Parts 1 & 2 (Uncle Charlie and Peter Penrose)
undated
18
Black Bottom Stomp / Heebie Jeebies (The Red Heads)
undated
17
Bluebird Sing Me A Song / Ev'ry Time I Look at Her Smile (Jack Payne and the BBC Dance Orchestra)
undated
18
Breakaway / That's You, Baby (Jay Wilbur and his Orchestra
undated
19
Capriccio in b-minor, Op. 76, (Artur Rubinstein, Pianist /'La Cathédrale Engloutie', (The Sunken Cathedral), Prelude #10 (Debussy)
undated
18
The Captain Must Go Down With the Ship
undated
20
Casey at the Bat (Charlie McCarthy)
undated
19
Celery Stalks at Midnight / Down the Road A Piece (Will Bradley Orchestra and Trio)
undated
17
Community Blues (Alan Murray) / Food For the Soul (Fillis & Bright)
undated
18
Community Blues / Tonight Waltz (Kit-Kat Band)
undated
17
The Continental / La Cucaracha (London Piano-Accordeon Band)
undated
18
Cool Head Manny Swing
undated
18
Doin' the Rumba / So Sweet
undated
20
Don't Rock the Boat, Dear
undated
17
Dreaming Of the Day / Sweet Lorraine (The Piccadilly Players)
undated
19
Experiment / The Physician (Gertrude Lawrence)
undated
19
Fat Lil' Feller Wid His Mammy's Eyes / Shortnin' Bread / Snowball (Paul Robeson)
undated
20
Funny Face (Raie da Costa)
undated
20
Gems From "Blackbirds of 1928" / St. Louis Blues
undated
19
Grand Canyon Suite (4 Discs) (Paul Whiteman and His Concert Orchestra)
undated
17
Hear Ye Israel (Master E. Lough, Boy Soprano)
undated
17
Heebie Jeebies / Minnie the Moocher (Mills' Blue Rhythm Band)
undated
17
High and Dry / Barbaric (Irving Mills and his Hotsy Totsy Gang)
undated
18
Honolulu Bay / Lonely Little Dancer (Roy Fox and his Band)
undated
18
I Can't Forgive Myself / If I Love Again (Freddy Martin)
undated
19
Faw Done an' Go Boom! / Automobile Horn Song (Eddie Cantor)
undated
18
If It's the Last Thing I do / The Donkey Serenade (Ben Frankel and his Orchestra)
undated
19
I Hadn't Anyone 'Till You (Rudy Vallee Program)
1938 April 28
18
I'm Getting Myself Ready for You / Loveless Love (Blanche Calloway and her Joy Boys)
undated
18
I See Your Face Before me / You Go to My Head
undated
18
Is There A Place Up There for Me? / Witness
undated
17
I've Got A Feelin' You're Foolin' / How Was I to Know (The Rhythm Rascals)
undated
18
I Wanna Be Loved / Love Is the Sweetest Thing (Melville Gideon)
undated
18
I Want to Ring Bells / My Hat's on the Side of My Head (Jack Hulbert)
undated
19
I Wished On the Moon (Bing Crosby)
undated
20
(I Would Do) Anything For You / Clarinet Marmalade
undated
20
Jack Buchanan Medley
undated
18
James Session / I Heard You Cried Last Night (Harry James and his Orchestra)
undated
17
Just A Voice / There Are Eyes
undated
19
Just to Linger In Your Arms / Gipsy Moon (Richard Crooks)
undated
19
The Killing Song / Congo Lullaby (Paul Robeson)
undated
19
Lady Be Good / I Begged Her
undated
18
Limerick Puzzle (Claude Hulbert)
undated
19
The Lincolnshire Poacher / The Vicar Of Bray (Stuart Robertson)
undated
17
Loch Lomond / I'm Coming Virginia (Maxine Sullivan and her Orchestra)
undated
18
Louisiana Swing / Hittin' the Bottle (Luis Russell and His Orchestra and Frankie Trumbauer and his Orchestra)
undated
19-20
Love Is the Sweetest Thing (Studio Quartet; Rudy Vallee)
undated
18
Love Locked Out / The Touch Of Your Lips (Jackie Gleason)
undated
20
Lucky Girl (Jack Payne and the BBC Dance Orchestra)
undated
19
Manny Is Gone / High Water (Paul Robeson)
undated
19
The Meanderings Of Monty, Part #6, on Health / Part #7, on Bolshevism (Milton Hayes)
undated
18
Mean Music / China Boy (Gene Kardos and his Orchestra)
undated
20
Medley Of Leslie Stuart's Songs
undated
18
Melancholy Baby (Al Bowlly)
undated
20
Minstrel Show of 1931 (The English Minstrels with Alexander and Rose)
undated
18
Miss Otis Regrets / Two Cigarettes In the Dark (Jack Jackson and his Orchestra
undated
18
Modern Color Poems (The Hulbert Brothers)
undated
18
Money / The Convention Song ("Big Jim" Buchanan and Henry Russell's Music)
undated
19
My Old Kentucky Home / Ol' Man River (Paul Robeson)
undated
19
Nice Work If You Can Get It (Fred Astaire)
undated
17
Nobody's Fault But Your Own / My Little Fella and Me (Jack Payne and the BBC Dance Orchestra)
undated
18
Nobody's Fault But Your Own / That's How I Feel About You (Alma Vane)
undated
19
Nocturnes For Orchestra, #1, Nuages (The Clouds) (The State Opera Orchestra of Berlin)
undated
20
Nutcracker Suite (Philadelphia Orchestra)
undated
19
Old Devil Moon (Anita Gordon)
1953 November 3
18
On the Riviera / Looking for a Boy (Roger Wolfe Kahn and his Orchestra)
undated
17
Out of the Dawn / Sweet Sue (Jack Payne and the BBC Dance Orchestra)
undated
18
Pagan Love Song / Goodnight Sweetheart
undated
20
Paul Robeson Medley (
undated
20
Petrouchka Suite / Apollon Musagete (Boston Symphony Orchestra)
undated
20
Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone / Minnie, The Moocher (The Five Rhythm Kings)
undated
18
Please / Here Lies Love (Sam Coslow)
undated
19
Pomp and Circumstance March #4 in G (The B.B.C. Symphony Conducted by Sir Edward Elgar)
undated
19
Reflections on the Water, (Reflets Dans l'Eau)(Debussy) / Stojowski, Chant D'Amour (Song Of Love), Ignace Jan Paderewski
undated
19
Rhapsody In Blue (Gershwin)(Paul Whiteman and His Concert Orchestra)
undated
18
Rhythm King / My Suppressed Desire (Paul Whiteman's Rhythm Boys)
undated
18
Riots, Strikes, and Revolutions / Oh Dear, Dear (Ronald Frankau)
undated
18
Rise 'N' Shine / It's Been So Long (Roy Fox and his Band)
undated
18
The Rock and Roll Waltz / I've Changed My Mind A Thousand Times (Kay Starr)
undated
18
Say the Word and It's Yours / When the Leaves Bid the Trees Goodbye (Len Fillis and his Hawaiian Orchestra
undated
20
Selections From "Land Of Smiles" (Symphony Orchestra)
undated
17
Seven Veils / It's Unanimous Now (Stuart Ross and Joe Sargent)
undated
18
The Ship Is No Place For A Lady
undated
20
Symphonie Espagnole (4 Discs)
undated
17
Sing Song Girl of Old Shanghai / Anything You Say (Jack Payne and the BBC Dance Orchestra
undated
18
Sixteen Tons / You Don't Have to Be A Baby to Cry("Tennessee" Ernie Ford)
undated
19
Smoke Gets In Your Eyes / The Continental (Larry Hadler)
undated
19
So In Love / Liebestraum
undated
19
Somebody Loves Me / Medley of I'm In the Mood for Love / Easy to Love
undated
19
Some Of These Days / Getting Hot (David Nelson and The King's Men; Joe Venuti and his Orchestra)
undated
19
Stack O' Lee Blues (Waring's Pennsylvanians)
undated
19
Symphony Nr. 1 in C-Major (4 Discs), Op. 21 (Philharmonic-Symphony of New York)
undated
19
Talk To Me / Casey Jones (McKinney's Cotton Pickers; Blanche Calloway and Her Joy Boys)
undated
20
The White Horse Inn (Light Opera Company)
undated
18
They Can't Take That Away From Me / Let's Call the Whole Thing Off (Roy Fox and his Orchestra)
undated
18
Tiger Rag (The Jungle Band)
undated
19
Time On My Hands / Vilia
undated
17
Tokio / Nicolette (Jack Payne and the BBC Dance Orchestra
undated
20
A Trumpet Voluntary / Solemn Melody (Hallé Orchestra)
undated
18
Try Your Fortune
undated
17
Twilight Song / Under the Willow Tree (Claude Thornhill and his Orchestra)
undated
20
Two Black Crows
undated
18
Under the Roofs Of Paris / Singing A Song to the Stars (Jack Hylton and his Orchestra)
undated
18
Under the South Pacific
undated
19
Wagon Wheels / St. Louis Blues (Paul Robeson)
undated
18
What Did I Do? / All I Want to Do
undated
19
What More Can I Ask? / Brighter Than the Sun (Lew Stone and the Monseigneur Band)
undated
20
When Day Is Done / Sweetheart I'm Dreaming Of You (Raie da Costa)
undated
17
When Do We Dance / Nice Baby (Savoy Havana Band)
undated
18
When It's Milking Time In Switzerland (Cicely Courtneidge)
undated
18
When the Band Goes Marching (George Baker)
1932 August 25
20
Whispering / Japanese Sandman (Paul Whiteman and his Orchestra)
undated
18
Yip! Neddy / Little Girl, What Now (Jack Jackson and his Orchestra)
undated
19
You Made Me Love You / Apple Blossoms (Miff Mole's Molers; Joe Venuti's Four)
undated
20
You Rascal You / That Too, Do (Luis Russell and his orchestra; Benny Moten and his Kansas City Orchestra)
undated
New Mayfair Orchestra (Ray Noble as Conductor)
Box
14
A Bedtime Story / Hallelujah, I'm A Tramp,
undated
16
Broken Rosary
1933 March 31
16
A Brown Bird Singing
1932 May 3
16
Allah's Holiday
1930 July 17
16
Bedtime Story
1932 October 11
14
Blue Roses / Folly to be Wise
undated
16
Blues In My Heart
1932 February 12
16
By the Fireside
1932 January 8
14
Casanova
undated
15
The Cat and the Fiddle
1934 January 12
17
Crazy Feet
1930 April 11
16
The Echo Of a Song
1932 June 8
15
Evergreen Selection
1934 June 27
15
Fair & Warmer
1934 June 28
16
Fiesta
1933 December 22
15
Follow the Stars, Part I and II
1930 May 9
17
For the Love Of Mike / Got a Date with An Angel
undated
15
Give Me A Tune
1932 April 7
15
Good Evening
1932 June 8
16
Good for Nothing But Love
1930 May 15
15
Great Day / Monte Carlo
undated
16
Heavenly Light
1931 January 1
15
Here Comes the Bride
undated
15
High Society Blues
1930 May 8
15
Hold My Hand
1934 June 28s
16
Honeymoon Lane
1931 August 25
16
I'd Rather Be A Begger With You
1931 June 11
17
I Know Of Two Bright Eyes
1930 January 10
17
I'll Do My Best to Make You Happy
1932 September 8
15
I'll String Along With You
1934 June 27
17
I'm Telling the World She's Mine / How Could I Be Lonely
undated
16
In the Bushes at the Bottom of the Garden
1932 March 1
16-17
King Of Jazz, Part I and II
1930 June 4
16
Less Than the Dust
1932 October 21
14
Little Tommy Tucker / Nippy
undated
16
Looking On the Bright Side Of Life
1932 September 1
17
Lover Of My Dreams / Twentieth Century Blues
undated
16
Mad About the Boy
1932 September 1
16
Make Yourself A Happiness Pie
1930 December 31
17
Make Yourself a Happiness Pie / One Heavenly Night
undated
17
Makin' Wickey-Wackey Down In Waikiki / Really Mine
undated
15
Medley (C & C)
1934 July 2
15
The Millionaire Kid
undated
17
The Moon and Sixpence
1932 April 21
15
Music In the Air, Part I and II
1933 April 11, undated
16
Must It End Like This?
1932 January 8
15
Nasty Man
1934 June 28
16
Nobody's Fault But Your Own
1929 March 20
17
On A Cold and Frosty Morning / Guilty
undated
15
Over My Shoulder
1934 July 2
17
Pacific Moonlight
1930 May 15
16
Pagan Moon
1932 July 20
16
Please Don't Mention It
1932 July 20
16
Put Your Little Arms Around Me
1932 January 8
17
Rhymes-Comedy Fox Trot
undated
15
Rhythm In the Air
1934 June 27
16
Ring Around the Moon
1932 March 3
17
Same as We Used to Do / Just Imagine
undated
16
Shalimar
1932 October 21
15
Silver Wings
undated
16
Sitting On A Rainbow
1930 September 1
14
Song Of the Drum
undated
15
Song Of the Nightingale / Serenade
undated
15
Song Of the West
1930 June 4
15
Speedboat Bill / The Haunted House
undated
15
Stand Up and Sing
undated
15
Sunny Days / I'll Be Good Because Of You
undated
17
Sunshine and Shadows / Fiesta
undated
14
Tell Her the Truth / Out Of the Bottle
undated
15
There's Another Trumpet Playing In the Sky, Part I and II
1932 September 8
16
There's Love In My Heart
1932 March 3
15
The Three Musketeers
undated
15
Time On My Hands / I'm Glad I Waited
undated
16
The Village Band
1933 April 25
16
Waltz Medley, Part I and II
1932 April 21
15
War-Time Memories
1931 October 6
17
We Two / Lady Of Spain
undated
16
When I Close My Eyes and Dream
1931 January 1
16
When It's Sunset On the Nile
1931 August 25
15
When You've Got A Little Springtime
1934 July 2
16
Where Are You Girl Of My Dreams
1932 July 20
16-17
Whispering
1930 July 17
15
The White Horse Inn
undated
15
Words and Music
undated
16
Younger Generation
1932 September 1
17
You're Twice as Nice as the Girl In My Dreams / That's Somerset
undated
17
You've Got to Be Modernistic
1930 April 11
Ray Noble and His Orchestra (or by Ray Noble; Collaboration)
Box
11
#5545 (Untitled, Unidentified)
undated
7
[...] Is Gone
1929 October 2
7
After All, You're All I'm After
1934 April 27
8
A Letter To My Mother
1933 January 31
11
Alexander's Ragtime Band
undated
5
A Little White Gardenia / You and the Night Music
undated
9
Ain't Misbehaving
1938 December 30
7
Ain't Yer Coming Out Tonight
1932 August 25
11
Alec Templeton Time, Parts 2 & 4, 5
1940 December 20
6
All I Do Is Dream Of You
1934 July 11
5
All Over Italy / 7 Years With the Wrong Woman
undated
6, 9
Allah's Holiday
1930 July 17, undated
11
Alone / If You Love Me
1936 February 5
12
Alone / Moonlight in Hilo
1936 March 18
11
Alone / Out Of A Dream
1936 January 22
6
An Hour Ago This Minute
1934 March 7
7
And So Goodbye
1933 November 9
11
And the Angels Sing
1939 May 19
7
At The Court of Old King Cole
1934 June 2
8
Balloons
1932 December 14
6
Beat of My Heart
undated
5
Beat O' My Heart / Little Man, You've Had A Busy Day
undated
8
A Beautiful Lady In Blue
undated
5
Bedtime Story / Rock Your Cares Away
1934 April 30
9
Begin the Beguine
1939 March 2
10
Bergen/McCarthy Show
1952 February 24
10
Be Still My Heart
undated
9
Blazin' The Trail
undated
9
Bob White
undated
9
Bonjour, Mam'selle
undated
10
Boulevard Cafe
undated
8
Brother Can You Spare A Dime
1933 March 17
11
Burns & Allen Show
1938 December
8
Butterflies In The Rain
1933 January 31
14
By the Waters of Minnetonka / Cherokee
undated
12
Can I Be Wrong? / Suzannah; Get Thee Behind Me Satan
1936 February 26
11
Can't Be Bothered (Fred Astaire)
undated
6
Can't We Meet Again
1933 February 20
10
Captain Custard
undated
10
Caravan
undated
10
Chase & Sanborn Show
1941 September - October
12
Cheek to Cheek / This is the Kiss Of Romance
1936 February 26
9, 11-12
Chesterfield Presents
1938-1939
11
Chesterfield Presents, Song Of the Metronome
1939 June 9
9
Chinatown, My Chinatown
undated
11
Cling To Me / Eenie, Meenie Minee, Mo
1936 January 22
12
Cling To me / Yours Truly
1936 February 19
5
Close Your Eyes & Did You Ever See A Dream Walking
undated
11
Closing / So This is Heaven
1936 January 22
14
Coca Cola Program
1935 November 6
14
Cochran Medley
undated
9
Coffee Song
1946 December 15
10
Color Blind
undated
9
Cool Head Manny Swing
1939 January 13
12-14
Coty Program, Ray Noble, Multiple Discs (Some Digital Copies Available)
1935-1936
10
Crazy Rythym
undated
10
Dancing in the Dark
undated
19
The Devil is Afraid of Music / St. James' Infirmary
undated
7
Did You Ever See A Dream Walking?
1933 December 20
7
Dinner At Eight
1933 October 12
10
Dinner For One, Please James
undated
14
Dinner Music / Goodbye Now
undated
10
Dinner Music Suite
1942 February 23
7
Don't Be Late in the Morning
1933 May 10
19
Don't Tell Her / Moanin' Low (The Three Boswell Sisters; Annette Henshaw)
undated
19
Do Something
1929 June 29
7
The Dream Is Over
1932 December 14
5
Dreaming A Dream / Sitting Beside O' You
undated
5
Dreams That Don't Grow Old / I Love You
undated
8
Dreamy Serenade
1934 July 11
9
Eastern Broadcast Line / Western Broadcast Line, Burns and Allen Show
1939 January 13
8
Easy To Love
undated
10
El Relisario (Digital Copies Available)
1935 March 9
12
Every Moment Of the Day / Sweet Sue
1936 February 12
11
Everything Sings
1946 February 10
12
Everything Stops For Tea / It's Been So Nice
1936 March 4
7
Experiment
1933 October 12
5
Experiment / Snowball
undated
9, 11
F.D.R. Jones
1939 February 17, undated
9
Fit As A Fiddle
1951 April 22
10
Flowers for Madame
undated
11
Foggy Day (Fred Astaire)
undated
5
For Only You (Broken)
undated
7
For You Alone
1933 May 16
11
Friday Night at the Hartys
1939 January
9
Friday Nite
1939 January 27
10
Georgia
1941 October 26
7
Gipsy Fiddles
1933 June 16
11
Girlfriend of Whirling Dervish
1938 November 18
7
Girl On The Scooter
1933 November 29
7
Good For Me, Sad For Me
1933 September 19
12
Goody-Goody / It's Been So Long
1936 March 18
14
Goodnight Sweetheart / Suspicion!
undated
7
Grinzing
1934 April 30
9
The Gypsy & The 12th Street Rag
1948 October 31
7
Hand In Hand
1933 November 9
5
Happy and Contented / Love Locked Out
undated
5
Have A Heart / It's Time To Say Goodnight
undated
5-6
Have You Ever Been Lonely / Love Tales
1933,undated
9
He's The Champ
1951 April 22
9
Headache Medley
1939 October 2
11
He Wanted Adventure, Parts 1 and 2
1933 November 3
9
Hold Tight
1939 March 3
9, 11
Honolulu
1939 February 24
6
How Could We Be Wrong
1933 September
6
Hustling & Bustling For Baby
1933 March 16
10
I Built a Dream One Day
undated
6
Ich Liebe Dich, My Dear
1933 January 14
12
I Fell Like A Feather In the Breeze / Top Hat
1936 February 12
10
If I Were Someone Else
undated
12
If You Love Me / Life Is Like A Cigarette
1936 March 18
11
If You Love Me / Way Down Yonder in New Orleans
1936 January 29
9
I Got Rhythm - But Not Much
1939 April 7
8
I Was In The Mood
1933 October 24
10
I Wished On the Moon
undated
5
I'll Be Good
undated
5
I'll Do My Best to Make You Happy / Love Is the Sweetest Thing
undated
10
Irish Eyes
undated
5
It's A Most Unusual Day / Judaline
undated
5
It's Great to be In Love / My Sweet
undated
5
It's Sunday Down In Carolina / Si Petite
undated
7
It's Time To Say Goodnight
1934 February 16
5
It's Within Your Power / Maybe I Love You Too Much
undated
9
I Don't Believe in Signs
1939 January
5
I Fell In Love With You / Saturday Night In Central Park
undated
9
I Know Now
undated
6
I Love You Truly
1934 May 31
11
I'm Shooting High / Suzannah ; Moon Over Miami
1936 February 5
6
I Never Had A Chance
1934 July 18
11
In the Hall Of the Mountain King
1932 May 12
5
I Wish I Knew the Name / Serenade
undated
10
I Hadn't Anyone 'Till You
undated
9
In A Moment of Weakness
1939 January
19
I'm All A Twitter
1929 June 29
9
I'm the Fellow Who Loves You
undated
8
I'm Through With Love
1931 October 21
8
It's All Forgotten Now
1934 July 11
8
I've Got My Love To Keep Me Warm
undated
12
I've Got My Fingers Crossed / I Can't Give You Anything But Love
1936 February 19
11
I've Got My Fingers Crossed / I'm Building Up to an Awful Let Down
1936 February 5
9
I've Got You Under My Skin
undated
9
Joobalay
1939 January 20
8, 10
Just An Echo In The Valley (Bing Crosby Vocal)
1933 January 12
5
Just Let Me Look At You / You Couldn't Be Cuter
undated
10
I've Got a Lovely Bunch of Cocoanuts
undated
19
I Wanna Go Places
1929 June 7
6
Kentucky Moon
1933 January 14
7
Knight's Bridge
1934 February 22
12
KOA, Denver, Colorado (3 Discs)
undated
8
La-Di-Da
1933 November 29
9
Lady of Madrid
1935 February 27
8
Laughing Waltz
1933 November 8
6
Let Me Give Happiness to You
1933 March 16
9
Let's Call a Heart a Heart
undated
8
Let's Face The Music and Dance
1936 January 23
12
Let's Face the Music / I Feel Like A Feather In the Breeze
1936 February 26
8
Let Yourself Go
undated
12
Let Yourself Go; Commercial / With All My Heart
1936 February 12
12
Let Yourself Go / You Hit the Spot
1936 March 4
9
Lift Up The Latch
undated
11
Lights Out / The Day I Let You Get Away
1936 January 29
7
Little Dutch Mill
1934 April 21
6
Little Man, You've Had a Busy Day
1934 May 31
5
Little Pomerarian
undated
6
Little Star
1930 November 27
6
A Little Street Where Old Friends Meet
1933 January 1
7
Little White Lies
1930 September 24
8
Little Valley In The Mountains
1934 July 18
9
Long as You Got Your Health
undated
5
Love Is A Random Thing / Linda
undated
12
Love is Like A Cigarette / Colona's Colossal Choir
1936 February 12
6
Love Tales
1933 February 7
11
Lullaby In Rhythm
1938 November 11
12
Mad About the Boy / The Touch Of Your Lips
1936 March 4
10
Magic of Magnolias
undated
19
Make a Joyful Noise Unto the Lord (Lyn Murray)
undated
9
Marching Along
undated
5
Marching Along Together / Song Of the Bells
undated
6
Medley of Gracie Fields Titles
1934 May 12
5
Melissa / You're Always There
undated
6
Moon Country
1930s
10
Moon & Willow
undated
8
Moonlight
undated
14
The Moon Of Manakoora / I Hadn't Anyone 'Till You
undated
11
The Moon Won't Tell
undated
8
More Turkish Delight, Part I
1933 August 8
11
Mr. Whittington Selections, Parts #1 and 2
1934 November 1
9-10
My Favorite Dream
1946 February 10
6
My Heart's to Let
1933 February 27
7
My Sweet
1934 April 27
6
My Sweeter Than Sweet
1930 January 8
7
Night On The Desert
1934 April 19
8
Not Bad
1934 July 10
11
Now It Can Be Told
undated
5
Now / Little Old Lady
undated
7
Old Covered Bridge
1934 April 21
8
The Old Spinning Wheel
1933 May 9
6
On A Steamer Coming Over
1933 December 20
7
One Morning in May
1934 April 5
8
One Two, Button My Shoe
undated
7
Over On The Sunny Side
1934 February 21
14
Peer Gynt Suite
undated
9
Penny Serenade
1939 April 21
10
Piccolino
undated
6
Play, Fiddle, Play
1933 January 31
11
Please Believe Me / Every Hour Of the Day
1936 January 29
11
Please Believe Me / I'm Shooting High / Lights Out (Digital Copy Available)
1936 January 15
8
Poor Me, Poor You
1933 February 7
7
Poor Orphan Child
1932 December 14
6
Prize Waltz
1934 August 25
9
Program on WNEW/New York City
1935 November 23
11
Radio's Tribute to the King and Queen (12 Parts on 6 Discs)
1939 June 11
11-12
Ray Noble & Orchestra at the Beverly-Wilshire Hotel (Multiple Discs)
1939 October 5
12
Ray Noble Program On NBC
1938 January 29
10
Red Sails in the Sunset
undated
6
Remember Me
1934 June 7
7
Repeal The Blues
1934 March 7
12
Robins and Roses / Yours Truly
1936 April 1
5
Rock Your Cares Away
undated
8
Roll Along A Prairie Moon
undated
14
Rudy Vallee Dinner to Ray Noble (Digital Copies Available)
undated
9
San Remo
undated
9
Satan's Holiday
undated
19
School Boy Howlers (Jack Hylton)
undated
14
Sealtest Program
1948 August 19
10-11
Seminole
1939 April 14, undated
7
She Loves Me Not
1934 April 27
11
Simple and Sweet
1938 November 4
10
Sioux Sue
undated
19
Skirts / Super Tiger Rag (Billy Cotton and his Band
undated
9
Slummin' On Park Avenue
undated
8
Snow Ball
1933 October 12
9
Snug As A Bug
1939 March 31
12
Snug As A Bug In A Rug With Gracie Allen
1939 February 12
8
So Because
undated
10
Somebody Ought To Be Told
undated
8
Something Came and Got Me In The Spring
1933 June 16
6
Song Without Words
1933 November 29
7
Spin A Little Web of Dreams
1934 March 7
11
St. Louis
1938 November 25
9
St. Louis Blues
1938 November 25
11
St. Louis Blues / Medley
1936 January 22
7
Stay On The Right Side
1933
8
Sweethearts
1933 March 17
10
Sweet Potato
undated
9
Sweet Sue
undated
12
Sweet Sue / The Song Of the Vagabond Mountaineer
1936 April 1
9
Swing of the Kilts
undated
6
The Tail Of A Shirt
1933 October 6
11
'Taint What You Do
1939 May 5
7
Tan Tan Tivvy Tally-Ho
1932 June 3
9, 14
Test Record For Ray Noble (Untitled)
undated
5
Tiger Rag
undated
5
Thanks / Goodnight Little Girl of My Dreams
undated
5
That's What Life Is Made Of / Spanish Eyes
undated
7
The Sun Is Around The Corner
1934 January 11
12
The Touch Of Your Lips / The Blue Danube, Closing
1936 February 19
8
The Touch of Your Lips
undated
5
The Touch Of Your Lips / Hurry, Hurry Home
undated
5
There's A Cabin In the Pines / If You'll Say 'Yes', Cherie
undated
7
This Little Piggy
1934 February 16
8
This Town's Too Quiet
1933 November 8
8
A Thousand Goodnights
1934 May 12
8
Three Wishes
1933 March 16
8
To Love You and To Lose You
undated
10
Too Romantic
undated
10, 11
Things Are Looking Up (Fred Astaire + Prescore
undated
11
Treasury Show, 12th Street Rag; We've Got Plenty To Be Thankful For
undated
7
Trouble in Paradise
1933 September 19
8
True
1934 May 12
11
Turkey In the Straw / Rhythm In My Nursery Rhymes
1936 January 29
5
Two Loves Have I / The Treasure Of Sierra Madre
1934 March 13
9
Umbrella Man
1939
5-6, 11
Unidentified
undated
10
Unmarked, Category #1/b (11 Discs)
undated
9
Untitled, Chesterfield Show
1939 April 28
8
The Very Thought Of You
1934 April 21
14
The Very Thought Of You / I'll Be Good Because Of You
undated
9
Vieni, Vieni
undated
10
Vilia
undated
6
Wagon Wheels
1932 February 21
9
Walking Stick
undated
5
Waltzing In A Dream / The Old Spinning Wheel
undated
6
Wanderer
1933 January 12
7
Watch The Navy
1932 august 25
8
Way Down Yonder in New Orleans
undated
6
Weep No More My Baby
1933 December 12
12
We Saw the Sea / I Ain't Got Nobody
1936 March 18
5
We Saw the Sea / If You Love Me
1933 June 19
12
West Wind / Lights Out
1936 March 4
12
With All My Heart / Shooting High; Lights Out/ Beautiful Lady In Blue / Please Believe Me; Building Up to A Let Down / Saddle Your Blues to A Mustang, Coca Cola Program (3 Discs)
1936 January 15
5
What A Perfect Combination / Look What You've Done
undated
7
What A Perfect Combination
1933 February 20
5
What A Sweet Surprise / The Charm Of You
1936 August 21
5
What Do I Have To Do / A Little Imagination
undated
10
What More Can I Ask?
undated
6
What Now
1934 February 22
6
When You've Fallen in Love
1933 February 27
8
Where Am I?
1933 April 26s
7
Wherever You Are
1932 July 11
10
While My Lady Sleeps
1942 February 23
14
Who Loves You?; A Fine Romance / One, Two, Button Your Shoe; I've Got You Under My Skin
1936 October 26
7
Who Walks In
1934 February 1
14
Why Stars Come Out at Night / Flying Saucers (Anita Gordon, Vocalist)
undated
8
Yes, Mr. Browne
1932 December 4
5
You Can Always See me Alone
undated
12
You Hit the Spot / We Saw the Sea
1936 ebruary 19
8
You're Mine
1933 June 16
6
You've Got to be Modernistic
1930 April
7
You Have Taken My Heart
1934 May 4
8
You Ought To Be In Pictures
1934 April 5
6
You Ought to See Sally On A Sunday
1930s
9
You That I Loved
1935 April 25
10
Yours Truly is Truly Yours
undated

Series III. Clippings, Photographs, and Scrapbooks Return to Top

Container(s) Description Dates
Box
21
Clippings - Ray Noble's Death
1978 April
21, 24-25, 28
Photographs - Ray Noble Portraits; Paramount Theatre Marquis; Photo Collage
1930s-1950s
21-23,26-27
Scrapbooks of Clippings
1935-1942, 1946

Names and SubjectsReturn to Top

Subject Terms

  • Arrangement (Music)
  • Arrangers -- United States -- 20th century.
  • Big band music -- Great Britain -- 20th century.
  • Big band music -- United States -- 20th century.
  • Big bands -- Great Britain -- 20th century.
  • Big bands -- United States -- 20th century.
  • Composers -- Great Britain -- 20th century.
  • Composers -- United States -- 20th century.
  • Composition (Music) -- Great Britain -- 20th century.
  • Composition (Music) -- United States -- 20th century.
  • Conducting -- Great Britain -- 20th century.
  • Conducting -- United States -- 20th century.
  • Conductors (Music) -- Great Britain -- 20th century.
  • Conductors (Music) -- United States -- 20th century.
  • Radio music -- United States -- 20th century.

Corporate Names

  • New Mayfair Dance Orchestra.
  • Ray Noble Orchestra.

Form or Genre Terms

  • Phonograph records.
  • Scores.
  • Scrapbooks.