He studied with the Hungarian composer, Matyas Seiber, who lived in London, and took a conducting course given by the German-born Walter Goehr. He was mentored by the Canadian composer, Robert Farnon, and became a light music composer best known for Rotten Row and A Canadian in Mayfair. An early LP by Wally was London Pride, 1958.
Wally also wrote the music for the seminal comedy program, Hancock’s Half Hour, and was the musical director for The Goon Show throughout the 1950s. In 1962 and 1963 he arranged and conducted the UK entries for the Eurovision Song Contest, ‘Ring-A-Ding Girl’ and ‘Say Wonderful Things’, both sung by Ronnie Carroll. He worked with Shirley Bassey and

++Stott, by 1970 was a widower, met a female singer and they married in May that year. The second wife was a major support as Wally became Angela Morley with surgery from Dr Burou a few weeks after the marriage.
Wally came out as Angela in 1972. Then she moved to Los Angeles. She was nominated for an Oscar for orchestrating and arranging the music for the film The Little Prince, 1974 and Th

She lived in Scottsdale, Arizona, until her death at 84.
*Not the horticulturist.
The Scott Walker albums can be heard at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdPJc1Xrogk&list=PLlJXfT7G3slyTF4k18t8kcBGIW58GuPSt,.
ReplyDeleteSome of the other early albums can be heard if you do a YouTube search using 'Wally Stott'.