Noel gay

Reginald Moxon Armitage (15 July – 4 March ) [1] known professionally as Noel Gay. [2] was a British composer of popular music of the s and s whose output comprised 45 songs as well as the music for 28 films and 26 London shows. Noel Gay – Reginald Armitage (–) Reginald Moxon Armitage was born on 15 July at Park Terrace, Leeds Road, Outwood, Wakefield the son of Harry Armitage, a colliery clerk, and his wife Charlotte Elizabeth Moxon.

Noel Gay. Soundtrack: Great West End Theatres. Noel Gay was born on 15 July in Wakefield, England, UK. He was a composer and writer, known for Great West End Theatres (), Get Out () and Matchstick Men (). He died on 4 March in London, England, UK. Noel Gay (15 July – 4 March ) was born Reginald Moxon Armitage. He also used the name Stanley Hill professionally. He was a successful British composer of popular music of the s and s whose output comprised 45 songs as well as the music for 28 films and 26 London shows.

Sheridan Morley has commented that he was "the closest Britain ever came to a local Irving Berlin". Explore the life and works of Noel Gay on StageAgent. Discover his biography, shows, and contributions to theatre. Noel Gay died in at the early age of fifty six; he had lost his hearing, a terrible affliction for a musician and composer and possibly because of that he quickly succumbed to cancer.

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It closed in following a stay of eight years. Select a country or region. A child prodigy, he was educated at Wakefield Cathedral School, and often deputized for the Cathedral organist. For Me and My Girl.

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Interestingly it was here that his interest in religious music and composition waned to be replaced by a passion for musical comedy. Noel Gay: blue plaque challenge Sep 20, News. The Lambeth Walk! Open in Music. About us.

Asia Pacific See All. He was also the principal composer for Clowns In Clover, which starred Jack Hulbert and Cicely Courtneidge, and ran for over performances. Latin America and the Caribbean See All. He was captivated by the family piano before his legs were long enough to reach the pedals and was excelling in music before he was old enough to begin ordinary lessons.

Reg realised that the church authorities might be less than impressed by their bright young composer and organist having his name up in the garish vulgar lights of the West End and featured on the new-fangled wireless machine, so he decided to hide his brightening star under the bushel of a pen name. After four years studying for his MA and B.

Although he wrote under another pseudonym, Stanley Hill, for his more sentimental work, Gay had a real talent for writing catchy, popular melodies in styles ranging from music hall to operetta. He never lost his love for Yorkshire and remarked that the mental test he ran on all his tunes was whether he could imagine the mill girls in Yorkshire whistling it as they worked the looms and walked home from work.

Noel Gay music. His original ambition was to obtain a choral appointment at that cathedral, but at the age of fifteen he took up a scholarship to study at the Royal College of Music in London. A prolific composer and lyricist, Gay was responsible for many of the most popular and memorable songs in the UK during the 30s and 40s. His music dominated the London stage and the hit parade for the next twenty five years; he is, I believe, the only composer apart from Andrew Lloyd Webber to have four hit shows running in the West End simultaneously; however Noel Gay also had two films showing in cinemas at the same time.

It played in over a dozen countries and even became a massive hit in Japan, for the Takarazuka Revue Company and Toho Music. In he moved to London to study at the Royal College of Music, and later became the director of music and organist at St. Europe See All. Born Reginald Moxon Armitage, by the age of just eight he would often deputise for the choirmaster at the cathedral, and became honorary deputy organist at He won a music scholarship to Queen Elizabeth Grammar School, Wakefield at the age of eight and subsequently often deputised for the choir master at Wakefield Cathedral.

Another blue plaque has been spotted in Wakefield in West Yorkshire.