Jack Payne

John Wesley Vivian "Jack" Payne (22 August 1899 – 4 December 1969) was a British dance music bandleader who established his reputation during the British dance band era of the 1930s.
Payne was born in Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, England, the only son of a music publisher's warehouse manager. While serving in the Royal Flying Corps, he played the piano in amateur dance bands. After the RFC became the Royal Air Force towards the end of World War I, Payne led dance bands for the troops. Prior to joining the Royal Air Force, he was part of "The Allies" concert party. This voluntary group performed to wounded soldiers convalescing around Birmingham.
He played with visiting American jazz bands at the Birmingham Palais during the early 1920s, including the Southern Rag-a-Jazz Orchestra in 1922, before moving to London in 1925. He played in a ten-piece band which became the house band at London's Hotel Cecil in 1925. This ensemble regularly performed on the BBC in the latter half of the decade. In 1928, Payne became the BBC Director of Dance Music and the leader of the BBC Dance Orchestra. In 1929, the band was featured in the first ever BBC television broadcast, also appearing in the short film Jazz Time that same year. His signature tune was "Say it With Music", written by Irving Berlin.
==Links to Peel==
Peel played some of Jack Payne's material through various compilation albums and choose some of his tracks for the Peelenium and the Pig's Big 78.
==Shows Played==
;1997
*11 September 1997 (BFBS): 'The Bell Bottom Trousers (Compilation CD-Recollections Of 1945: Dance Bands)' (Empress)
*18 September 1997 (BFBS): 'The Bell Bottom Trousers (Compilation CD-Recollections Of 1945: Dance Bands)' (Empress)
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*22 July 1999: 'My Baby Just Cares For Me' (Peelenium 1930)
;2002
*16 January 2002: 'Choo Choo (Quick Fox Trot)' (Columbia) - Pig's Big 78
*25 April 2002: Mucking About The Garden (Pig's Big 78)
*08 May 2002: 'Get Up Nice And Early' (78) (Pig's Big 78)
;2004
*31 March 2004: 'Mucking About The Garden (78)' (Columbia)
*06 April 2004: 'Mucking About in The Garden' (Columbia) (Pig's Big 78)
*15 June 2004: Mucking About The Garden (Pig's Big 78)
*15 July 2004: 'The Waltz You Saved for Me' (78) Columbia (Pig's Big 78)
==External Links==
*Wikipedia
*Discogs
Category:Artists