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Ernest Tomlinson
12+ albums
englishbritishenglandKlassikbritish light music
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Ernest Tomlinson (born September 19, 1924) is an English composer, particularly noted for his Light music compositions. He is sometimes credited as Alan Perry. Ernest Tomlinson was born in 1924 in Rawtenstall, Lancashire into a musical family. Aged nine he became a chorister at Manchester Cathedral, where he was eventually appointed as Head Boy in 1939. He later attended Bacup and Rawtenstall Grammar Schools and at sixteen won a scholarship to Manchester University and the Royal Manchester College of Music. He spent the next two years studying composition until in 1943 he left to join the Royal Air Force where he became a Wireless Mechanic and saw service in France during 1944 and 1945. He returned to England in 1945 to resume his studies and graduated in 1947, receiving the degree of Bachelor of Music for composition as well as being made a Fellow of the Royal College of Organists and an Associate of the Royal Manchester College of Music. Tomlinson left Northern England for London, where he worked as a staff arranger for Arcadia and Mills Music Publishers, providing scores for radio and television broadcasts as well as for the stage and recording studios. He continued his interest in the organ by taking up a post at a Mayfair church. He had his first piece broadcast by the BBC in 1949 and by 1955 he had formed his own orchestra, the "Ernest Tomlinson Light Orchestra". From 1951 to 1953, he was musical director of the Chingford Amateur Dramatic and Operatic Society and in
top songs
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Domestic Fun (a)
3,7552Little Serenade
1,7033First Suite Of English Folk Dances: No. 3 Dick's Maggot
5024Suite: Graceful Dance
3895Concert Jig
1256Great Panorama
937First Suite Of English Folk Dances: No. 1 Jenny Pluck Pears
788First Suite Of English Folk Dances: No. 5 Hunt The Squirrel
699First Suite Of English Folk Dances: No. 4 Nonesuch
6710Shenandoah
65albums
Tomlinson: Silverthorn Suite / Little Serenade
Ren And Stimpy Production Music
Tomlinson: First Suite of English Folk-Dances
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Ren & Stimpy Production Music Vol. 1
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Ernest Tomlinson: First Suite Of English Folk-Dances
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Kpm 1000 Series: Archive Series - Volume 6 (Light Atmospheres)
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Elizabethan Serenade: The Best of British Light Music
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le classique abstrait
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The Best Of British Light Music
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English String Miniatures, Vol. 4
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Domestic Fun
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British Composers: Best of British