New Mayfair Dance Orchestra - I'll Be Good Because Of You

Ray Noble (1903-1978) was a British bandleader, composer, arranger and actor who studied music at the Royal Academy of Music and became leader of the HMV band in 1929. During the same period vocalist Jack Plant took up chorus work and toured with musical comedy companies up to 1928. He appeared in many musical comedies such as The Beggar's Opera. Bandleader Maurice Elwin introduced him to dance band work and began singing with the Savoy Orpheans. In 1930 he was hired by Jack Hylton in the absences of Pat O'Malley, although he was never a regular member of the band. He became even more famous by taking part in a historic Jack Hylton broadcast to America in 1931, the same year this outstanding recording was probably made.