Allmusic journalist Bradley Torreano stated, "Ray Martin created a legacy for himself in British popular music through his work with his orchestra during the 1950s.
His regular appearances on radio and television kept him in the public spotlight, while his position at EMI Records made him an influential producer at the label.
But his original compositions are what really made him popular; tracks like "Marching Strings" have become stables [sic] of many public and city bands and orchestras since their release".
[2] Raymond Stuart Martin was born as Kurt Kohn into a liberal Jewish family in Vienna, Austria.
After the war's end, he worked in radio for the British Forces Network in Hamburg, Germany, and later formed his own orchestra for a programme called Melody from the Sky which had over 500 broadcasts.