- Ivor Slaney
Ivor Slaney (b. 27 May 1921 in
West Bromwich ,United Kingdom , d. March 1988,Southampton , United Kingdom) was a prolificmusical composer and conductor , notable for his work infilm ,television andradio .Slaney was educated at the
Royal College of Music , and marriedpianist Dolores Ventura .His best known work was probably "Top Dog"", which was used as the theme music for the
BBC radio comedy series "The Men from the Ministry ". The songs he was known for were less than 5 seconds long and were used asstock sound s for cues to depict situations in cartoons and shows for comic effect, such asRen and Stimpy andBill Nye Ivor Slaney also composed hundreds of
mood music pieces,fanfare s and "stings". Many examples are available on the DeWolfe site (see below).External links
* [http://www.thedoubledeckers.com/music.htm Biography of Slaney by David Noades]
* [http://www.dewolfe.co.uk/musicsearch/search_1.php?pageNum_rsResults=10&totalRows_rsResults=152&fastfind_to_tracks@fastfind_id=&keyword_to_track@keyword=&tracks@tracktitle=&tracks@composer=Ivor+Slaney&tracks@tempo=&tracks@cdnumber=&tracks@tracktype=m&composer_to_track@composerid=&composer_text=&submit=search Ivor Slaney music (full excerpts) at www.dewolfe.co.uk]
* [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0805273/ Ivor Slaney at IMDB]
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