Ray Sonin

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.

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