The Mellotron Group

Ronald Binge was the guy who wrote "Sailing By", a cracking little
tune which is probably known to britisher posters as the radio 4
shipping forecast music.  I remember lying half awake in bed when I
was a little kid, hearing it drifitng up the stairs from my parents
radio at midnight or thereabouts, the tune, and the sleepy arrangement
has this weird magic to it, every time they played it, I'd wonder if
they'd ever play it again, and if I'd ever hear it again.  I think it
might be the best piece of music ever?

Hyperion has a couple of CDs of British light music, it's very good, a
lot of it.  "My Native Heath" by Arthur Wood is on one of them, that's
a familiar one too, I imagine.

On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 8:48 AM, david etheridge
<d.etheridge1@virgin.net> wrote:
> Hi folks,
> yes, Ronnie Binge was the guy who 'invented' the Mantovani cascading
> strings, but he got the idea from hearing works by Claudio Monteverdi
> and the effect of voices as they sounded in churches and trying to
> reproduce the effect musically.