Dick Walter

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After graduating in History and Psychology from Nottingham University Dick started working for BBC Radio and Television, writing arrangements and compositions for all the BBC Radio Orchestras, and working as arranger on a wide selection of classic light entertainment TV shows: The Two Ronnies, Morecombe & Wise, Seaside Special, Tommy Cooper, The Generation Game, Marti Caine, and many others, as well as composing for drama productions for BBC TV, Scottish TV and Granada. He has composed the music for many TV commercials: the long-running Yellow Pages campaign, (starting with the classic J R Hartley film), award winners for British Airways, Tabasco, Heineken and Benson & Hedges, as well as director Adrian Lynne’s two-and-a-half minute film for the launch of Ford Capri. He composed the music for all of director Alan Parker’s commercials. He also arranged the music for several classic campaigns, notably Hovis, (voted the UK’s favourite TV ad), and the original Wall’s Cornetto. He has composed over twenty albums for the KPM Recorded Music Library, covering many genres: Town and Country, Pure Big Band, Essential Brass Band, The Romantic Album, and three CDs of original songs: Classic Sounds & Classic Songs. His most recent project for KPM, (released 2007), was a double CD: Jazz Anthology. His Arts Council commissions include a number of pieces for UK Arts Festivals: White Lies the Moon for the A E Housman Centenary, Excursions for Baritone Saxophone and String Quartet, and a

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Kpm 1000 Series: The Editor's Companion 2

Background Music Too

Mini Classics

Pure Big Band - Part 2 / Vocals

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Kpm 1000 Series: Whimsy

Essential Brass Band & Circus

Classic Sounds, Classic Songs 2

Pure Big Band - Part 1

Kpm 1000 Series: Playing with Fire 1

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Classic Sounds, Classic Songs 1

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Kpm 1000 Series: The Editor's Companion - Volume Three

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