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Bob Sharples
British composer, arranger, music director, and conductor
United Kingdom • 1913-07-02 – 1987-09-08
Bob Sharples is credited on 505 releases across 113 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1954–2024 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.
505
Pressings credited
113
Albums
8
Decades active
8
In collections
Biography
Robert Sharples (2 July 1913 – 8 September 1987), known as Bob Sharples, was a British musical conductor, composer and bandleader, whose work encompassed films and well-known British television programmes in the 1960s and 1970s, most notably Opportunity Knocks (1964–1978).
Bio from Wikipedia
Credited work
505 releases · 113 albums · active 1954–2024
- Performance · 736
- Other credits · 224
- Production · 1
Studios: St. Andrew's Hall, Glasgow · Walthamstow Assembly Hall
Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
Frequent collaborators
- Kenneth McKellar
- Various
- The Beverley Sisters
- Teresa Duffy
- Bob Sharples And His Orchestra
- Cyril Stapleton And His Orchestra
- Arthur Murphy (2)
- Tchaikovsky
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