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Ken Woodman

Ken Woodman is credited on 1,301 releases across 307 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1961–2024 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.

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1,301

Pressings credited

307

Albums

7

Decades active

21

In collections

Biography

Ken (Kenny) Woodman was a British composer and trumpeter. He was famous for the song "Town Talk", which was used as the theme song for Paul Kaye's shows on the pirate radio station Radio London, and later as the theme song for Jimmy Young on BBC Radio 2. He posthumously became famous for the song "Mexican Flyer", which was originally released on the Ken Woodman and his Picadilly Brass album That's Nice in 1966. "Mexican Flyer" was used as the theme song for Space Channel 5, and was included in the soundtrack of Samba de Amigo and Swing Girls. He was also music arranger for Shirley Bassey, Tom Jones and famously for Sandie Shaw, where he arranged and conducted "Puppet on a String" at the Eurovision Song Contest. Kenny Woodman was a musician in the Royal Marine Band, during WW2 and arranged a lot of their music in the early 1950s before moving into the music business.

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Credited work

1,301 releases · 307 albums · active 1961–2024

  • Performance · 1,447
  • Other credits · 542
  • Production · 25
  • Engineering · 2

Studios: Pye Studios · Air Studios · Ocean Way Recording · CTS Studios

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