Black was born as Solomon Schwartz on 14 June 1913 in Whitechapel, England. His parents were Polish and Romanian Jews. He began piano lessons at the age of seven. He was aged only 12 when his first composition was broadcast on BBC Radio and continued his early success by winning a Melody Maker arranging competition aged 15.
In the early 1930s he was employed as a jazz player and composer and had worked with Howard Jacobs, Joe Orlando, Lew Stone, Maurice Winnick and Teddy Joyce by the time he joined Harry Roy in 1936. He had also broadcast and recorded with several American musicians, including jazz saxophonist Coleman Hawkins, who had first heard Black on late night radio shows with Lew Stone's band. When the two eventually met in London, the reviewer Edgar Jackson suggested they record together, and a notable collaboration is a duet version of Honeysuckle Rose.
During World War II, Black joined the Royal Air Force, and became involved in managing the entertainment of servicemen based at Wolverhampton. In 1944 he was appointed conductor of the BBC Dance Orchestra, and remained in the job for almost nine years, broadcasting as many as six nights a week.
By this time he had also begun recording under his own name for Decca. Now well involved with the film industry, he went on to compose, arrange and direct music for about 200 more films, notably after being appointed music director at Elstree Studios in 1958. He was also principal conductor of the Associated British Picture Corporation Orchestra and musical director composer of that organisation from 1958-1963.
Stanley Black's radio work kept him in contact with a large listening audience through his incidental music for shows such as Much Binding in the Marsh and the first two series of The Goon Show. He later presented his own programmes on radio and television, including Black Magic and The Marvellous World of Stanley Black.
In the early 1950s he regularly topped the Melody Maker lists of the most-heard musicians on radio. He was chosen to be included on Decca's first release of long-playing records in the UK in June 1950. This enabled him to continue his conducting, arranging and performing and resulted in a large number of albums. He was particularly popular in United States, as evidenced by his inclusion in the Billboard best-sellers lists.
During his life, he conducted many of Britain's major orchestras, and until the 1990s he was still directing regular broadcast sessions at the BBC studios, despite the onset of deafness in later life.
Stanley Black is remembered for writing numerous scores for radio, television and cinema, including the theme-tune for The Goon Show.
Other films he composed scores for include Laughter in Paradise (1951), The Naked Truth (1957), Blood of the Vampire (1958), Too Many Crooks (1958), The Long and the Short and the Tall (1961), West 11 (1963), The System (1964), Crossplot (1969), and the Cliff Richard musicals The Young Ones (1961) and his orchestral backing for Richard's follow up, Summer Holiday (1962), which won him an Ivor Novello Award. His work also became familiar to millions of cinema audiences as a consequence of his theme tune and music library for Pathé News, written in 1960.
He also recorded many classical works, including collections of Tchaikovsky and George Gershwin. In 1965 he won a Gramophone Award for his version of Rimsky-Korsakov's Capriccio Espagnol. In addition, he arranged and conducted many commercially successful albums on LP and later CD like Tropical Moonlight, Cuban Moonlight, Black Magic, and series of Film Spectacular and Broadway Spectacular for Decca Records.
Be My Love
Stanley Black Lyrics
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This need that you and you alone create
Just fill my arms the way you've filled my dreams
The dreams that you inspire with ev'ry sweet desire
Be my love, and with your kisses set me burning
One kiss is all I need to seal my fate
And hand in hand, we'll find love's promised land
There'll be no one but you, for me eternally
Be my love, for no one else can end this yearning
This need that you and you alone create
Just fill my arms the way you've filled my dreams
The dreams that you inspire with ev'ry sweet desire
Be my love, and with your kisses set me burning
One kiss is all I need to seal my fate
And hand in hand, we'll find love's promised land
There'll be no one but you, for me eternally
The song "Be My Love" by Stanley Black is a love ballad that expresses a deep yearning for a particular person. The singer expresses that their need for this person is incomparable to anyone else. Nothing and no one else can satisfy their craving for love like the person they are singing to. The person has filled the singer's dreams and is the sole inspiration for their sweetest desires. The singer is so deeply in love that just one kiss from this person would seal their fate forever. They dream of walking hand in hand with their love, heading towards their promised land, and believing that they will be with this person eternally.
This song is a classic example of a love ballad, expressing the intensity and depth of love that is sometimes difficult to put into words. The lyrics describe a yearning that can only be satisfied by the love of one individual. The ballad conveys a feeling of completeness and certainty that comes with finding true love. The song spreads the message that love, when found, brings a sense of completeness and makes life worth living.
Line by Line Meaning
Be my love, for no one else can end this yearning
Please be mine, because only you can fulfill the longing in my heart.
This need that you and you alone create
Only you have the power to create the desire in me that only you can quench.
Just fill my arms the way you've filled my dreams
Hold me close, just like you've been featured in my dreams.
The dreams that you inspire with ev'ry sweet desire
Every romantic wish I have for you is what inspires my dreams.
Be my love, and with your kisses set me burning
Be my love and let your kisses ignite the flames of passion within me.
One kiss is all I need to seal my fate
A single kiss from you will decide the direction of my future.
And hand in hand, we'll find love's promised land
Together, we'll search for love's promised land, holding hands in unity.
There'll be no one but you, for me eternally
I choose you, and only you, to be with me forever.
If you will be my love
All of these things will come true, if only you agree to be my love.
Lyrics © BMG Rights Management
Written by: Nikolaus Brodszky, Sammy Cahn
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