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Mar 20, 2011 · The ultra-cool Man in a Suitcase. ‘Theme from Man in a Suitcase’ (1967) Grainer continued to write in the seventies, most notably the soundtrack for the Charlton Heston film The Omega Man and the theme for Roald Dahl’s Tales of the Unexpected. He died in 1981, at the age of fifty-eight. A selection of Ron Grainer’s theme tunes can be ...
The original version of the Doctor Who theme was a combined effort from Delia Derbyshire and Dick Mills at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop. The compositional basis for the Doctor Who theme music was delivered to the Radiophonic Workshop in mid-1963 by composer Ron Grainer on a single sheet of A4 manuscript paper containing the basic melody and ...
Ron Grainer (1922–1981) was a composer of music for television and film. Born in Atherton, Queensland, Grainer is said to have been as young as four when he started learning the violin and six when he gave his first public performance. Having briefly studied piano at the University of Queensland, he enlisted in the RAAF in 1940, serving as a wireless operator in Townsville and performing in concerts as a member of the service’s entertainment unit. Discharged from the Air Force on medical ...
Feb 28, 2021 · The Doctor Who theme music is a piece of music written by Australian composer Ron Grainer and realised by Delia Derbyshire at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop. C...
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Ron Grainer. The Omega Man (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) 02:20. Writer: Bernard Hanighen - Cootie Williams - Thelonious Monk. 12. Main Title (From Night Must Fall, 1964) Ron Grainer. Best RON GRAINER Early Movie Themes (Original Movie Soundtrack) 02:47.
Ron Grainer was an Australian composer best known for his television and film scores. He is remembered for his theme music for Doctor Who, The Prisoner, Steptoe and Son, and Tales of the Unexpected. Born in Atherton, Queensland, in 1922, Grainer learned to play the piano from his mother and was encouraged to learn the violin by an elderly Welsh miner. The family left Atherton in 1930 and moved to Aloomba, a sugar-growing rural community on the Far North Queensland coast. Grainer died in ...
Ron Grainer, composer of the Doctor Who theme, always said Delia Derbyshire should receive a co-composer credit for her arrangement but in 1963 the BBC preferred to keep the Workshop assistants ...
