Don Battye
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| Born | September 29, 1938 |
| Occupation | Television Producer |
Don Battye is an Australian born composer and television producer. He was a producer on several Australian television series for Crawford Productions including soap opera The Box in 1976-77, and police procedural drama series Bluey (1976) and Homicide. He later worked for the Reg Grundy Organisation as producer on such programmes as police procedural drama series Bellamy (1981), and soap operas Sons and Daughters (1982), Waterloo Station (1983), Possession (1985), and Neighbours. Battye co-composed the famous theme song to Sons and Daughters with Peter Pinne.
With Pinne in the late 1990s he set up the record label Bayview on leaving the Grundy Organisation. He now produces and composes music from the Philippines where he now resides.
[edit] Books
- music and lyrics by Peter N. Pinne ; book and lyrics by Don Battye. Adapted from the novel by William Dick' (1988). A bunch of ratbags. Montmorency, Vic. : Yackandandah. ISBN 0-73-163897-2.
- Peter N. Pinne and Don Battye. (1981). Caroline, a musical play based on the life and times of Caroline Chisholm. Brisbane : Playlab Press,. ISBN 0-90-815613-8.
- Peter N. Pinne and Don Battye. (1989). Red, white and boogie. Montmorency, Vic. : Yackandandah,. ISBN 0-86-805071-7.
