Noel Gay. Soundtrack: Great Wt End Theatr. Noel Gay was born on 15 July 1898 Wakefield, England, UK. He was a poser and wrer, known for Great Wt End Theatr (2012), Get Out (2017) and Matchstick Men (2003). He died on 4 March 1954 London, England, UK." data-id="ma
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NOEL GAY
Noel Gay bgraphy and history on AllMic cludg birthday, bt songs, existg and new album rmatn, and more. * noel gay composer *
Noel Gay. A prolific poser and lyricist, Gay was rponsible for many of the most popular and memorable songs the UK durg the 30s and 40s. Around this time he took the name of Noel Gay for his popular work to avoid embarrassment to the church thori.
In 1930, Gay, wh Harry Graham, wrote his most succsful song to date, ‘The Kg’s Hors’, which was sung another Charlot revue, Folly To Be Wise. Durg the 30s Gay wrote plete, or ntributed to, sr for popular shows such as She Couldn’t Say No, That’s A Pretty Thg, Jack O’Diamonds, Love Lghs!, O-Kay For Sound (one of the early Crazy Gang mic hall-type revu at the London Palladium, which Bud Flanagan sang Gay’s ‘The Fleet’s In Port Aga’), Wild Oats and Me And My Girl (1937).
In the same year, wh Ralph Butler, Gay gave Bud Flanagan the big song, ‘Run, Rabb, Run’, another Crazy Gang revue, The Ltle Dog Lghed. Durg the 40s, Gay wrote for several shows wh lyrics mostly by Frank Eyton, cludg Lights Up (‘Let The People Sg’), ‘Only A Glass Of Champagne’ and ‘You’ve Done Somethg To My Heart’); Prent Arms; La-Di-Da-Di-Da ’; The Love Racket; Meet Me Victoria; Sweetheart Me; and Bob’s Your Uncle (1948).
NOEL GAY – REGALD ARMAGE (1898–1954)
The Noel Gay Organisatn was found 1938, when the poser Noel Gay (born Regald Armage, 1898) started a mic publishg pany to publish his show songs and light mic. * noel gay composer *
Gay also posed ‘Tonleyo’, the first song to be synchronized to a Brish talkg picture (Whe Cargo). Gay’s other llaborators clud Archie Gottler, Clifford Grey, Dn Theradge, Donavan Parsons and Ian Grant. In the early 50s Gay wrote very ltle, jt a few songs such as ‘I Was Much Better Off In The Army’ and ‘You Se At Everyone But Me’.
After his ath March 1954, his publishg pany, Noel Gay Mic, which he had formed 1938, published one more song, ‘Love Me Now’. Wh the versatile actor Robert Ldsay as Sibson, a revised book, and two other Gay hs, ‘The Sun Has Got His Hat On’ and ‘Leang On A Lamp Post’ terpolated to the sre, the new productn was an immediate succs. Around the same time, Rad Tim, a new show featurg Noel Gay’s mic, enjoyed a brief Wt End n.
NOEL GAY(1898-1954)
Noel Gay wrote Leang on a Lamp-Post, Ali Baba's Camel and The Sun Has Got His Hat On (And He's Comg Out To-Day). * noel gay composer *
The Noel Gay Organisatn was found 1938, when the poser Noel Gay (born Regald Armage, 1898) started a mic publishg pany to publish his show songs and light mic. In the late 1950s Noel Gay Artists was formed by his son, Richard Armage (born 1928) orr to supply sgers to perform Noel Gay hs.
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Durg the 1960s Noel Gay Artists was a prcipal agent for a huge number of mil and pop acts cludg Rs Conway, Peter & Gordon, The Sffold, Geoff Love, Manuel and His Mic of the Mountas, Pl Jon etc. As a mic publisher, Noel Gay Mic provid a strg of hs for many artists cludg Bernard Cribbs’ Hole In the Ground, Right Said Fred and Gossip Calypso. In the 1980s, Noel Gay reprented amongst others, Rowan Atkson, Stephen Fry, Hugh Lrie, Emma Thompson, Tilda Swton, Danny Baker, Peter Skellern, Jan Leemg and Regald Bosanquet, as well as ntug to look after Sir David Frost, Esther Rantzen, Dmond Wilx, Sir Richard Stilgoe (Phantom of the Opera, Cats and Starlight Exprs) and Norman Newell.
In 1985, Richard Armage and his two sons cid to produce Me And My Girl, a huge h om 1938, wh mic by Noel Gay. In 1987, Alex and Pl Jackson found Noel Gay Televisn which beme the first major pennt televisn productn pany. Amongst many other major productns, Noel Gay was rponsible for the worldwi succs of Red Dwarf, wrten by Rob Grant and Doug Naylor.
Noel Gay Theatre, an pennt theatre management pany, managed the hugely succsful Rowan Atkson: The New Review (Shaftbury Theatre), Sugar Babi (Savoy Theatre), Other People’s Money (Lyric Theatre), Matador (Queens Theatre), Tango Argento (Aldwych Theatre), The Cotton Club (Aldwych Theatre), and Kiss of the Spir Woman (Shaftbury Theatre). In 1993 Chris Figg and Charl Armage found Noel Gay Motn Picture Company.