Angela Morley
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Angela Morley (born March 10, 1924) is an English composer and conductor.
[edit] Life
Angela Morley was born in Leeds, Yorkshire on 10 March 1924. She attributes her entry into successful composing and arranging largely to the influence and encouragement of the Canadian light music composer Robert Farnon.
She is a transsexual woman, and was originally credited under her birth name Wally Stott. She underwent sex reassignment surgery in the 1970s. Angela Morley lives in Scottsdale, Arizona, and has been awarded 3 Emmy Awards for her work in television musical scoring.
[edit] Works
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. Morley wrote most of the score for the 1978 film version of Watership Down, although the prelude and opening was by Malcolm Williamson. Another very short, but fondly remembered, theme was the 12-note "Ident Zoom-2", written for Lew Grade's Associated TeleVision (ATV) and in use until the demise of ATV in 1982.
In 1962 and 1963, Wally Stott arranged the United Kingdom entries for the Eurovision Song Contest, Ring-A-Ding Girl and Say Wonderful Things, both sung by Ronnie Carroll. The former was conducted on the Eurovision stage in Luxembourg by him as well.
[edit] External links
- Official Angela Morley website
- Biography at the Robert Farnon Society
- Angela Morley at the Internet Movie Database
- Angela Morley at All Music Guide
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| The Goons | Michael Bentine • Spike Milligan • Harry Secombe • Peter Sellers |
| Other Contributors | Ray Ellington • Max Geldray • Wallace Greenslade • Dennis Main Wilson • Larry Stephens • Wally Stott • Eric Sykes • Andrew Timothy |
| Radio and TV Series | The Goon Show • The Telegoons |
| Films | Let's Go Crazy • Penny Points to Paradise • Down Among the Z Men • The Case of the Mukkinese Battle Horn • The Running Jumping & Standing Still Film |
| Characters | Cast members and their Characters • Major Bloodnok • Bluebottle • Henry Crun and Minnie Bannister • Eccles • Hercules Grytpype-Thynne • Count Jim Moriarty • Neddie Seagoon |
| General information | Episodes and archiving • Running Jokes |
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