Martin Slavin (1922- 1988) Film music composer and songwriter

[julian_craster]

Martin Slavin (1922- 1988) Film music composer and songwriter (co-written with his wife , Abbe Gail Slavin) and mainly remembered for Lance Comfort 'B' movies of the early 1960s .......



Here is some background information from John Chilton's Who's Who of British Jazz :

[Gerald Lovell]

Martin Slavin's piece "Space Adventure" is famous with DOCTOR WHO fans as the first Cyberman theme.

[alan french]

Hi.

I was first aware of Martin Slavin on records made by Helen Shapiro for Columbia. I felt mildly sorry for him, when the Rank organisation, in their LOOK AT LIFE film series, had Norrie Paramour instead, when making a film with Helen Shapiro, who was singing WALKING BACK TO HAPPINESS.



Alan French.

[julian_craster]

Helen Shapiro's WALKING BACK TO HAPPINESS was recorded by EMI/Columbia, and Norrie was their chief A&R man, conductor/arranger, so it was inevitable that Norrie would be included in the LOOK AT LIFE feature.....

[Dave Rattigan]

If I remember right, he wrote the score for Sherlock Holmes and the Deadly Necklace, a bizarre British-German co-production. A fun picture, but very odd. Slavin provided a cracking jazz score.

[alan french]

Hi Julian Craster.

Yes. I assumed that that was the situation, but I did feel a bit sorry for him, as he worked as far as I recall, on all of Helen Shapiro's hits prior to WALKING BACK TO HAPPINESS. It just seems ashame that when it came to this film, he was not used. But I must however give credit where credit is due. Norrie Paramour did a good job, and this song is the one that I think most people remember her for.



Alan French.