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Ted Dicks
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Ted Dicks (5 May 1928 – 27 January 2012) was an English composer. He is best known for composing the music for the novelty songs "Right Said Fred" and "The Hole in the Ground". They were both Top 10 hits in the UK Singles Chart in 1962, recorded by Bernard Cribbins with lyrics by Myles Rudge, and produced by George Martin for Parlophone. Another song by Dicks and Rudge, "A Windmill in Old Amsterdam", was a hit in 1965 for Ronnie Hilton. His solo work included "Busy Boy", the theme tune to the classic 1970s children's television series Catweazle, and the scores to the films Clinic Exclusive (1971) and Virgin Witch (1972). Dicks also wrote scripts for the television soap operas Compact and Crossroads. Dicks was born in Muswell Hill, North London, England. His father was a postman. Dicks was educated at Tollington Grammar School and Hornsey School of Art and then undertook two years national service in the RAF. He won a scholarship to the Royal College of Art, where he became friends with Len Deighton. Dicks later concentrated on composing music, but continued to paint in later life. While working as a teacher in the 1950s, Dicks composed a stage show Let's Go Mad, which had a short run at the Fortune Theatre in London's West End in 1960 under the title Look Who's Here!, featuring Nyree Dawn Porter, Donald Hewlett and Anna Quayle. Dicks collaborated with Barry Cryer, and then with Myles Rudge. Dicks and Rudge wrote the revue And Another Thing which had a long run at the Fortun
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Virgin Witch (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
The Sound Spectrum
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A To Z Of British TV Themes From The Sixties And Seventies The
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Seventies
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The A To Z Of British TV Themes From The Sixties And Seventies
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The Sound Spectrum (From The Curators Of The Sound Gallery)
Virgin Witch
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CATWEAZLE
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RT 142 - Tweeny Bopper
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Die grössten TV Hits aller Zeiten - Die beliebtesten Kinderserien
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British TV Themes A-Z, Vol. 1
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The Sound Spectrum: From The Curators Of The Sound Gallery