Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Eric Lees Wild (11 February 1910 29 April 1989) was a Canadian conductor, trumpeter, arranger, and composer. Born in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Wild studied conducting and arranging at the University of Michigan where he earned a Bachelor of Music in 1932. From 1933 1936 he worked as an arranger for the Canadian Radio Broadcasting Commission in Toronto where he frequently collaborated with conductor Geoffrey Waddington. He toured to London as a member of Billy Bissett's Canadian Band in 1936 1938. During that time he also served as principal trumpeter and arranger for the BBC Symphony Orchestra from 1936 1939. Wild returned to Toronto in the autumn of 1939 to assume a conductiong position with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. He left that post in 1942 to become music director of the revue Meet the Navy where he remained through 1945. He then returned to CBC Toronto to conduct for the programs like the Wayne and Shuster Show and The Alan Young Show.