- Fenoulhet conducted The Skyrockets Orchestra in the 1940s and the BBC's lighter orchestras during the fifties and sixties.
- He arranged prolifically and also composed, novelty "mood" pieces and even a concert suite, "Suffolk Sketches".
- He was a jazz trumpeter, trombonist, cellist and band leader.
- E had toured with Jack Hylton and spent nine years at the Savoy with Carroll Gibbons.
- In the fifties he was conducting and arranging for the BBC Radio Orchestra.
- He sometimes used the alias of Harry Essex.
- After retiring from the BBC he continued composing on a freelance basis.
- In 1946 The Skyrockets made their home at the London Palladium until commercial television took over in 1955. In 1947, Woolf Phillips replaced Paul Fenoulhet on trombone.
- He was conductor of the Number One Balloon Barrage Centre Orchestra during the War.
- He arranged for other bands such as Jack Hylton's.
- Paul Fenoulhet formed his band The Skyrockets, while he was doing military training. He was a star trombonist and arranged for the band.
- Doreen Lundy first sang with Fenoulhet's band while she was in the WAAF. (she also sang with Geraldo).
- Paul was always very supportive of semi-professionals and took over the Bexley Heath Band from Ted Heath.
- After the war he joined the BBC as Musical Director of the BBC Variety Orchestra.
- He arranged prolifically and also composed, even a concert suite, Suffolk Sketches, one of whose movements is entitled "Flatford Mill".
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