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Ivor Raymonde (bornIvor Pomerance; 22 October 1926 – 4 June 1990)[1][2] was a British musician, songwriter, arranger and actor, best known for his distinctive rock-orchestral arrangements forDusty Springfield and others in the 1960s.
He studied atTrinity College of Music,[3] and served as aBevin Boy during theSecond World War.[4] He initially entered professional music as a jazz and classical pianist. He played in various big bands and started leading his own band by the early 1950s. He then became a music director at theBBC alongsideWally Stott. He worked as a session musician on occasion, playing on and arrangingJohnny Duncan's UK hit "Last Train to San Fernando." He also worked as an actor, supporting comedianTony Hancock in all of the comedian's first TV series in 1956.[4]
He moved on toPhilips Records, where he worked asproducer withFrankie Vaughan, for whom he arranged the hits "Tower of Strength" and "Loop de Loop", and withMarty Wilde andthe Springfields.[4]
WhenDusty Springfield went solo in 1963, he played her a tune he had written, which became her first big hit, "I Only Want to Be with You", produced byJohnny Franz.[3] It reached #4 on theUK singles chart, and he and lyricist Mike Hawker followed it up with Dusty's second hit single, "Stay Awhile". Raymonde continued working as Springfield's arranger through the 1960s, as well as arranging and producing hits forHelen Shapiro,Billy Fury,the Walker Brothers,Susan Maughan,Ken Dodd,Alan Price,Honeybus,Eternal Triangle,Los Bravos,The Flies and many others.[4] In the 1970s, he worked as an arranger and producer atDJM Records on albums by the actorEdward Woodward, and later worked withIan Dury,Julio Iglesias andRichard Anthony.[3]
He had four children: Gail, Linda and Nicholas, andSimon Raymonde ofCocteau Twins, co-founder and manager of the independent record labelBella Union.[citation needed]
A compilation of Ivor Raymonde's recordings,Paradise: The Sound of Ivor Raymonde, was released on the Bella Union label in 2018, and made available onBandcamp.[5] A second volume was issued in 2019.[6]
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