Wynford Reynolds, founder of the famous Wyoford Reynolds Octet, won a scholarship at the Royal Academy of Music, where he studied for six years before joining the original Queen's Hall Orchestra. This was in 1922. Seven years later he formed his Octet, which, with its signature tune ' A Cocktail of Happiness', began broadcasting in 1934 and was a popular radio combination for some years.
Reynolds was invited to join the BBC in order to organise the ' Music While You Work programmes, in which he has already used about 160 different combinations, and to the perfecting of which he has given endless research.