Uploaded April 2015 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago
AND THE GRAMMY AWARD FOR BEST SONG GOES TO - 1971
Winning composer : Paul Simon for "Bridge over Troubled Water" performed by Simon and Garfunkel
Other nominees that year were =
Ray Stevens for "Everything Is Beautiful" performed by Ray Stevens
James Taylor for "Fire and Rain" performed by James Taylor
John Lennon and Paul McCartney for "Let it Be" performed by The Beatles
Roger Nichols and Paul Williams for "We've Only Just Begun" performed by The Carpenters
SYD DALE
Syd Dale was an English self-taught composer and arranger of funk, easy listening and library music. His music played an important role on TV, radio and advertising media of the 1960s and 1970s
Dale started as an apprentice engineer at Rowntree's chocolate factory at 16. Soon big band music, very popular in the 1940s, became his passion. He spent as much time as possible listening to the Big Bands and studying the arrangements. Three years later, in 1945, he left the factory and joined several local bands as pianist and arranger.
His music, which emphasized melody and harmony with intricate arrangements, was composed for many television and radio projects. He was musical director on Oh Boy, Six-Five Special and Braden's Week. He had also co-arranged and co-produced some 007 themes as many other commercial successes. 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.
In 1971, he founded Amphonic Music record label, with the purpose of recording and producing his compositions and supplying music to the TV, film and radio business.
In 1970 his track "Marching There and Back" was used as the theme music to the BBC Television children's programme Screen Test, presented initially by Michael Rodd.
In the mid-1970s, he released a track for the disco market called "The Flasher", creating a dance craze of skipping backwards and forwards on the dance floor widely demonstrated at Spenborough Youth Club, West Yorkshire.
Through the 1970s and 1980s his "The Hellraisers" composition was used as the theme music to the BBC World Service Outlook topical programme.
In the 1970s, another composition of Dale's, "Walk and Talk", was used as the introductory music to the BBC's transmitter information, usually broadcast on BBC 2 in the morning.
IS IT LOVE YOU'RE AFTER
Written by Miles Gregory the song was a hit for the seventies disco formation "Rose Royce". The group's biggest hit was "Carwash" (1976) - theme song from the movie with the same name.
MHO
"Changing the menu makes you eat" says a local proverb, so here's another orchestral pop tune, a "disco classic" to be specific. Syd Dale and his musicians are in a great shape and the arrangement is marvelous. A real treat for the lovers of disco orchestral ! Here come the late seventies with Syd Dale playing "Is It Love" for you !
AND THE GRAMMY AWARD FOR BEST SONG GOES TO - 1971
Winning composer : Paul Simon for "Bridge over Troubled Water" performed by Simon and Garfunkel
Other nominees that year were =
Ray Stevens for "Everything Is Beautiful" performed by Ray Stevens
James Taylor for "Fire and Rain" performed by James Taylor
John Lennon and Paul McCartney for "Let it Be" performed by The Beatles
Roger Nichols and Paul Williams for "We've Only Just Begun" performed by The Carpenters
SYD DALE
Syd Dale was an English self-taught composer and arranger of funk, easy listening and library music. His music played an important role on TV, radio and advertising media of the 1960s and 1970s
Dale started as an apprentice engineer at Rowntree's chocolate factory at 16. Soon big band music, very popular in the 1940s, became his passion. He spent as much time as possible listening to the Big Bands and studying the arrangements. Three years later, in 1945, he left the factory and joined several local bands as pianist and arranger.
His music, which emphasized melody and harmony with intricate arrangements, was composed for many television and radio projects. He was musical director on Oh Boy, Six-Five Special and Braden's Week. He had also co-arranged and co-produced some 007 themes as many other commercial successes. 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.
In 1971, he founded Amphonic Music record label, with the purpose of recording and producing his compositions and supplying music to the TV, film and radio business.
In 1970 his track "Marching There and Back" was used as the theme music to the BBC Television children's programme Screen Test, presented initially by Michael Rodd.
In the mid-1970s, he released a track for the disco market called "The Flasher", creating a dance craze of skipping backwards and forwards on the dance floor widely demonstrated at Spenborough Youth Club, West Yorkshire.
Through the 1970s and 1980s his "The Hellraisers" composition was used as the theme music to the BBC World Service Outlook topical programme.
In the 1970s, another composition of Dale's, "Walk and Talk", was used as the introductory music to the BBC's transmitter information, usually broadcast on BBC 2 in the morning.
IS IT LOVE YOU'RE AFTER
Written by Miles Gregory the song was a hit for the seventies disco formation "Rose Royce". The group's biggest hit was "Carwash" (1976) - theme song from the movie with the same name.
MHO
"Changing the menu makes you eat" says a local proverb, so here's another orchestral pop tune, a "disco classic" to be specific. Syd Dale and his musicians are in a great shape and the arrangement is marvelous. A real treat for the lovers of disco orchestral ! Here come the late seventies with Syd Dale playing "Is It Love" for you !
