[78-L] Angela Morley obits (was: Good news on copyright extension)

[Alan Bunting]

One of the problems David Ades and I had when using Wally Stott tracks on Guild CDs was whether to credit them to "Wally Stott" (which is who he was when he made the recordings) or "Angela Morley". My view was that we should use Wally Stott as that is what was on the original record label but to avoid (or create!) confusion, we usually used something like "Angela Morley as Wally Stott".

One interesting fact is that when Wally Stott made some recordings for the American market on Epic in 1953 (to be found on Guild CDs or the original Epic EG 7030) he used the pseudonym Jeff Morley but, when asked about these sessions and why that name was used, Angela claimed that she couldn't remember doing them.

The Wally Stott & Jeff Morley tracks on Guild may be found in the artist alphabetical listing at 

http://www.pelstream.co.uk/guild_artists.htm

Alan Bunting

--- On Thu, 3/9/09, Kristjan Saag <saag at telia.com> wrote:

> Angela Morley's contribution to the Goon Show may be interesting, but far 
> more interesting is that she composed, arranged and conducted so much 
> orchestral works in the 1950's and 1960's, from numerous production music 
> recordings (see the Guild Light Music output, engineered by Alan Bunting) to 
> orchestral arrangements and backgrounds to Scott Walker and other chart 
> artists.

> Kristjan
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Michael Biel" <mbiel at mbiel.com>
> To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
> Sent: Thursday, September 03, 2009 8:58 PM
> Subject: [78-L] Angela Morley obits (was: Good news on
> copyright extension)

> 
> > While Alan Bunting's article about copyright was very  interesting, the
> > article that preceded it at  http://www.rfsoc.org.uk/news.shtml  was
> > even MORE interesting.  I had not heard that Angela Morley had died in
> > January.  Who is Angela Morley I hear many of you asking.  Angela Morley
> > had been Wally Stott until 1972.  Wally Stott, of course, was the music
> > director of The Goon Show, and it turns out had been the music director
> > of Phillips Records in the early 50s.  In the last couple of decades I
> > have seen occasional credits of the Goon Show music being conducted by
> > Angela Morley but was never able to find any conclusive answers to the
> > OBVIOUS question.  Now I have them.  There is also an explanation of
> > where the very different name came from, and confirms why there was a
> > substitute conductor for "The Last Goon Show Of Them> All".  Check out
> > the obit from The Guardian which has some wonderful comments by Max
> > Geldray and a picture of Angela with several of her Emmys.
> >
> > http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2009/jan/23/angela-morley-obituary-wally-stott
> >
> > There is a reprint of The Times obit at:
> >
> > http://groups.google.com/group/alt.fan.goons/browse_thread/thread/1b46d979edf5fb36
> >
> > It is interesting to see the gender change in the obits when discussing
> > Wally as a he and Angela as a she.  There's loads of other things there,
> > just google "ANGELA MORLEY (formerly WALLY STOTT)"
> >
> > Mike (formerly Professor) Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com
>