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Cyril Ornadel (2 December 1924 – 22 June 2011) was a British conductor, songwriter and composer, chiefly in musical theatre. He worked regularly with David Croft, the television writer, director and producer, as well as Norman Newell and Hal Shaper.
Profile: British composer, arranger and conductor. Born: 2 December 1924, London UK. Died: 22 June 2011, Israel. Cyril Ornadel rose to prominence in Britain during the 1950s, largely due to his weekly appearances conducting the orchestra for the popular television series “Sunday Night at the London Palladium”.
"If I Ruled the World" is a popular song, composed by Leslie Bricusse and Cyril Ornadel, which was originally from the 1963 West End musical Pickwick (based on Charles Dickens's The Pickwick Papers).
Oct 6, 2016 · Back in 1966, I first heard this song by Cyril Ornadel & The Starlight Symphony Orchestra in Charlotte, NC on an Easy Listening FM Station! This version haun...
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Cyril Ornadel is probably best known for composing the musical Pickwick starring Harry Secombe. One of the most famous songs from this show being, If I ruled the world which has been recorded hundreds of times and in fact, was recently used in an advertising campaign for Vodafone.
In the 1950s, as conductor of ITV's immensely popular Sunday Night at the London Palladium, Cyril Ornadel possessed the most famous back of the head on British television.
This album titled, "Billy Rose's Jumbo," by British composer/arranger Cyril Ornadel (1924-2011) and his Starlight Symphony was part of a series of recordings he produced for MGM Records...
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