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Ray Sonin (23 June 1907–20 August 1991) was an English-born broadcaster on Toronto radio station CFRB and hosted several popular radio programs, including ''Calling All Britons'' and ''Down Memory Lane''. ==Life== Born in London on June 23, 1907, he became a reporter at the age of 17 and joined the BBC as a writer in 1940, producing scripts for such personalities as Edward G. Robinson and Noël Coward during the war years. In the early 1950s, Sonin was the editor of ''The Musical Express'' - a weekly publication of four pages which contained the Top Twenty list of the sales of sheet music. This list was used by Radio Luxembourg during the early 1950s for their pioneering Sunday night programme. Later the ''Musical Express'' compiled a list based on record sales. When ''The Musical Express'' was sold to Odhams the mast head read ''The 'New' Musical Express''. Ray Sonin emigrated to Canada from London in 1957, Sonin put his life savings into a Canadian equivalent of ''The Musical Express'' called ''Music World'' and he lost every cent. But his misfortune with the Canadian music magazine was a blessing to his estimated 100,000 listeners, who tuned into Toronto radio station CFRB 1010 for his program ''Calling All Britons'' at 4:10 PM every Saturday for three hours of music, news and sports from the United Kingdom. ''Down Memory Lane'' ran on weeknights, and featured music popular in Great Britain during the 1940s and 1950s. In 1984, Sonin was made a member of the Order of the British Empire at Buckingham Palace by Queen Elizabeth II, an honour that Sonin called, "the greatest moment in my life." Ray was also a respected composer whose work has been recorded by Vera Lynn and Mantovani. He is also credited with having a great ear for talent. Long before Beatlemania swept the globe he is credited as the first program host in North America to play the Fab Four in the fall or early winter of 1962. His first wife, Eileen, died in 1977 following 39 years of marriage. Then he met his second wife, June, whom he married at Old City Hall, Toronto in 1978. He had no children. He died on August 20, 1991 of an apparent heart attack. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ray Sonin」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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