Laurie Holloway

b. 31 March 1938, Oldham, Lancashire, Britain. A pianist, musical movie director, arranger and composer, Holloway got piano lessons from age seven, and six years later on was organist and choirmaster at his regional church. Through the 50s, he toured with different groups, spent a while as pianist with Harry Roy’s previous drummer, Joe Daniels, and in addition played on cruise lines like the QE2, with ‘ Geraldo’s Navy’. In 1959, he became a member of Cyril Stapleton and became a normal program musician in UK record studios. Also in 1959, Holloway offered as musical movie director for the favorite Australian entertainer Rolf Harris’ BBC radio present. This led him to function in that capability for a complete selection of musical personalities such as for example Judy Garland, Liza Minnelli, Anthony Newley and Cleo Laine. In 1964, Holloway added the music to Bob Offer’s Western world End musical, Quick Marriage, starring Offer and Joan Sims. Regardless of some unfriendly notices, (‘This present puts British isles musicals back again twenty or thirty years’), it went for a wholesome 366 shows. In 1965, he wedded US vocalist Marion Montgomery and became her musical movie director. After that, the couple produced frequent looks on tv, radio as well as the concert stage. From 1969-75, Holloway toured, as musical movie director, with Engelbert Humperdinck, showing up on top-rated US tv shows with such as for example Johnny Carson, Bob Wish and Dean Martin. Holloway’s many compositions consist of ‘(Michael) Parkinson’s Theme’, ‘The Russell Harty Theme’, ‘Punchlines’, ‘Video game For A Chuckle’, ‘Blind Day’, ‘Kid’s Play Themes’, ‘Pop Preludes (Novellos)’, ‘Even more Pop Preludes’, and (with Montgomery), a musical play A IMAGINE Alice, created in 1981 to commemorate the 150th wedding anniversary of the delivery of Lewis Carroll. Aside from associated numerous performers on record, including Stéphane Grappelli (Norwegian Hardwood), Holloway proved helpful frequently on radio along with his very own small groupings, including Prism, a rock-jazz combo which he produced in the 80s particularly to try out his very own compositions. In the 90s and 00s Holloway proceeds to execute and record with a number of musicians and performers, and can be a familiar amount, as musical movie director and conductor, on tv shows.