![]() During the Second World War, he served in the Royal Air Force, during which time he was much in demand organising camp entertainment.Īfter the end of the war, Mantovani offered Binge the job of arranging and composing for his new orchestra. Binge's skill as a cinema organist was put to good use, and he played the organ in Mantovani's first band, the Tipica Orchestra. Early in his career he was a cinema organist and later started working in summer orchestras in British seaside resorts (including Blackpool and Great Yarmouth), for which he learned to play the piano accordion. Binge was educated at the Derby School of Music, where he studied on the organ. ![]() In his childhood he was a chorister at Saint Andrews Church (Church of England), London Road, Derby – 'the railwaymen's church' (demolished 1970). Binge was born in a working-class neighbourhood in Derby in the English Midlands.
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