Biography

Another of his many production music pieces, the bongo drum and harpsichord-driven "Cuban Presto" (originally released on the 1966 KPM album Accent on Percussion), was used by WPIX (Channel 11) in New York City as the theme for its late-night movie show, The Channel 11 Film Festival, from the late 1960s to the 1980s.

His production piece, Here in a Smoky Room composed by Brian Fahey and performed by Dale as the Otto Keller Band, was broadcast multiple times on BBC test card transmission music soundtracks in the early 1970s.

His music is still used in productions today. For example, his "Beauty Parade" was used in the SpongeBob SquarePants episode "Spy Buddies", and in The IT Crowd episode "Men Without Women". In the TV comedy series Episodes, Matt LeBlanc uses the tune "Two Time" as his iPhone's ringtone. The composition known either as "Man Friday" or "The Penthouse Suite" was used as the theme tune to LWT's Tarrant on TV and was also used extensively in the episode "Speed 3" of Father Ted to introduce libidinous milkman Pat Mustard.

In the early 1990s, Meryn Cadell sampled the track for the spoken word monologue The Sweater, which was used by skater Josée Chouinard in one of her award-winning routines. The late rapper Eazy-E also sampled the track for his performance in Gimme Datt Nutt. His "C'mon In" (released as a Decca single in its own right) which was the signature tune to BBC Radio 2's Breakfast Special in the late sixties.

His music played an important role on TV, radio and advertising media of the 1960s and 1970s and is still used.