Angela Morley was born Wally Stott in Leeds and started out playing saxophone in Geraldo’s band before taking composition lessons with Matyas Seiber and embarking on a prolific career as composer/arranger with films like Watership Down and The Slipper and the Rose, and music for two of the most famous comedy series of the 1950s, The Goons and Hancock’s Half-Hour. She worked extensively in the United States on television series such as Dallas, and with John Williams, weaving magic into arrangements for leading cross-over artists.
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