Education
He studied at Trinity College of Music, and initially entered professional music as a jazz and classical pianist.
He studied at Trinity College of Music, and initially entered professional music as a jazz and classical pianist.
He played in various big bands before becoming a music director at the British Broadcasting Corporation alongside Wally Stott. He worked as a session musician on occasion, playing on and arranging Johnny Duncan"s United Kingdom hit "Last Train To San Fernando." He also worked as an actor, supporting comedian Tony Hancock in all of the comedian"s first television series in 1956. He moved on to Philips Records, where he worked as producer with Frankie Vaughan, Marty Wilde and the Springfields.
When Dusty Springfield went solo in 1963, he played her a tune he had written, which became her first big hit, "I Only Want To Be With You" under producer Johnny Franz.
lieutenant reached no.4 on the United Kingdom singles chart, and he and lyricist Mike Hawker followed it up with Dusty"s second hit single, "Stay Awhile". Raymonde continued working with Dusty Springfield through the 1960s, as well as arranging and producing hits for the Walker Brothers, Billy Fury, Alan Price, Honeybus, Eternal Triangle, Los Bravos and many others
In the 1970s, he worked as an arranger and producer at DJM Records on albums by the actor Edward Woodward, and later worked with Ian Dury and Julio Iglesias.