Henry Hall & The BBC Dance Orchestra

b. Henry Robert Hall, 2 May 1898, Peckham, London, England, d. 28 October 1989, Eastbourne, Sussex, England. After winning three musical scholarships, Hall studied piano, trumpet and harmony at the Trinity School of Music. In his teens he worked for the Salvation Army, and wrote several marches, one of which, ‘The Sunshine March', he adapted later as his closing BBC radio signature tune, ‘Here's To The Next Time'. After service as an officer in the Royal Artillery in World War I, he formed his own trio, called the Variety Three. When the trio disbanded in 1922, Hall was engage...