Talk:Richard Addinsell

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I am the first to ask for more info? I would like to encourage people to add more data to Classical entries. Thanks--Koril 13:52, 21 April 2006 (UTC)

Chipperfield / RAF
Somehow these entries look fishy:

Biographies list his full name as Richard Stewart Addinsell.

"flew as a navigator with 619 Squadron, R.A.F. Bomber Command"

RAF crews were in early 20ies not late 30ies.

Beckus 14:25, 24 August 2007 (UTC)

Chipperfield, part 2
I think I found the source of the Chipperfield story

in Martin Middlebrook's book "The Nuremberg Raid" (1973) "serving .. as a navigator with 619 Squadron under his real name of FL Chipperfield"

Addinsell was 40 in 1944 totally impossible he served as RAF navigator.

I suspect an research error by Middlebrook. Beckus 19:14, 24 August 2007 (UTC)

Roy Douglas
Roy's role was a bit overdone by someone...

"From December 1935 to January 1943 I orchestrated every bar of all Richard Addinsell's music for films and broadcasts. I must state firmly that I did not compose any of it. We developed a method wherby he would play his music on the piano (he could stretch a twelfth with either hand), and I would rapidly take it down to paper as he played. His contribution to the orchestrations was to say 'this is strings only, that is oboe, give that to the horns' and so forth, and I would eventually take my draft away and complete scoring in all details..."

Roy Douglas, ICRC Autumn Edition 1999

—Preceding unsigned comment added by Beckus (talk • contribs) 21:56, 1 September 2008 (UTC)


 * I am not very good looking these kinds of things up, but was it Roy Douglas that was the one who transcribed "I will be in love with you always" (song played twice in the 1945 film, "Blithe Spirit"), once in the middle of the film, and again somewhat toward the end, and which I assume was composed by Richard Addinsell, and which appears to be confused by some with Dolly Parton's "I will always love you" - - two entirely different songs?  The main page of this article would be improved if it contained a list of Richard Addinsell's songs.   216.99.198.239 (talk) 05:23, 27 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Like other orchestrators/arrangers and "Musical Directors" (eg Muir Mathieson), Roy Douglas's work most often went unacknowledged in the film credits, thereby concealing their 'grey' contributions. In a boldly encyclopaedic spirit, I've tentatively started supplying this sort of information in the information boxes of some of the films Addinsell composed music for... waiting to find out how other film buff editors are going to react (yikes!). — Preceding unsigned comment added by MistyMorn (talk • contribs) 19:02, 13 September 2011 (UTC)