Ray Anthony has been played on NTS in shows including Beirut Daze w/ Ernesto Chahoud, featured first on 20 May 2023. Songs played include The Arabian Funk.

Ray Anthony (born January 20, 1922) is an American bandleader, trumpeter, songwriter and actor.

As a child Anthony, born Raymond Antonini in Bentleyville, Pennsylvania, moved with his family to Cleveland, Ohio, where he studied the trumpet with his father. He played in Glenn Miller's band from 1940–1941 and appeared in the Glenn Miller movie Sun Valley Serenade in 1941 before joining the U.S. Navy during World War II. After the war he formed his own group. The Ray Anthony…