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Angela Morley
12+ albums
Soundtrackcontemporary classicalcomposerClassicalmovie score composers
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Angela Morley (born Wally Stott, 10 March 1924 – 14 January 2009) was an English composer and conductor. She was born in Leeds, Yorkshire, and attributed her entry into successful composing and arranging largely to the influence and encouragement of the Canadian light music composer Robert Farnon. She was a transsexual woman, and was originally credited under her birth name Wally Stott. She underwent sex reassignment surgery in 1972. Angela Morley lived in Scottsdale, Arizona, and has been awarded 3 Emmy Awards for her work in television musical scoring. Angela Morley is perhaps best known as a composer of light music, with the jaunty Rotten Row her best known piece. Also notable is A Canadian in Mayfair, a homage to Robert Farnon's Portrait of a Flirt. In 1953, she began a long association with the Philips record label, arranging for and accompanying the company's artists, as well as releasing records under her own name, including the 1958 LP 'London Pride'. She is also well known for writing the theme tune and incidental music for Hancock's Half Hour and was the musical director for The Goon Show from the third series in 1952 to the last show in 1960. Another very short, but fondly remembered, theme was the 12-notes-long "Ident Zoom-2", written for Lew Grade's Associated TeleVision (ATV) and in use from the introduction of colour television in 1969 until the demise of ATV in 1981. In the 1960s she worked with Shirley Bassey, Dusty Springfield and the first three highl
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albums
Watership Down (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
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Rêverie
Watership Down
Watership Down Film Soundtrack
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British Light Music
The Film & Television Music Of Angela Morley
Captain Nemo and the Underwater City
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Lunde, L.: Alto Saxophone Sonata No. 1 / Higgins, D.: Alto Saxophone Suite / Pierce, B.: 3 Street Scenes / Bruno, M.: Encore
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Another Night Before Christmas & Scrooge
original soundtrack watership down
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The Day the TV Stood Still - Cd1 the Morning
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The Golden Age of Light Music: Light And Easy