Billy Ternent (10 October 1899 – 23 March 1977)
was a British orchestra leader, popular from the 1940s to the 1970s, best known for backing
Frank Sinatra
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and his work at the
London Palladium
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.
Biography
Ternent was born Frederick William Ternent in
Newcastle upon Tyne
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on 10 October 1899, and began his professional music career in 1927, joining
Jack Hylton
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Hylton rose to prominence during the British dance band era, being referred as the "British King of Jazz" a ...
's showband, becoming its principal arranger and mutli-instrumentalist. He remained with the band until the outbreak of
World War II
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, and proceeded to lead orchestras for the
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throughout the early 1940s. He formed his own band in 1944, and began conducting pit bands for various
theatre shows. In the 1950s, he provided the backing orchestra to
who described him as "the little giant". From 1962 to 1967 he was the musical director for the
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