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Alan Tew

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British composer and arranger Alan Stanley Tew got his start in the 1950's as a pianist and arranger for The Len Turner Band in London, England. Tew later became the leader of his own orchestra which has recorded dozens of soundtrack and library music albums. In addition, Alan has also collaborated with Cat Stevens. The composer of the themes of or the incidental music for an assortment of British television programs that include The Sweeney, Doctor in the House, and And Mother Makes Three, Tew is perhaps best known for his rousing composition "The Big One," which was initially written for use in the British crime drama series The Hanged Man and achieved its greatest enduring popularity in America as the stirring theme for the TV series The People's Court.
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He also composed all the music for the 1975 series, The Hanged Man, some of which was used as incidental music for The Two Ronnies, The Sweeney, SpongeBob SquarePants, and the 2009 Blaxploitation spoof Black Dynamite.
He got his start in the 1950s as the pianist and arranger for the Len Turner Band based in London.
During his career, Tew made a number of orchestral albums with CBS Records, such as Tew's album The Magnificent Westerns (1969).
One of the cuts composed for The Hanged Man, entitled "The Big One", would eventually become used as the theme and bumper music for the American television series, The People's Court. "The Big One" would also be used in an episode of the British detective show Van der Valk, as well as the erotic films Barbara Broadcast (1977), The Satisfiers of Alpha Blue (1980), and Malibu High (1979).
Although his music is huge, bombastic and very 70s, Tew utilized everything from the congas to the Moog to maximum dramatic effect.

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