Binge, Ronald

Ronald Binge (1910 – 1979) was a British composer and arranger. Binge was educated at the Derby School of Music, where he studied the organ. Early in his career he was a cinema organist and later started working in summer orchestras in British seaside resorts, for which he learned to play the piano accordion. After the Second World War, Mantovani offered Binge the job of arranging and composing for his new orchestra and that he arranged many of Mantovani's most famous pieces before composing his own music.