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Samuel Soden (20 May 1925 – 29 August 1991),''England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1916-2007'' known as Sam Fonteyn, was an English composer and pianist, whose most significant output was for the
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Music Library, for which he composed and recorded many works. Most are short character pieces for the piano with colourful titles indicating the images the pieces are meant to conjure. Others are bright orchestral pieces. Fonteyn's work has been heard on television since he recorded for Boosey & Hawkes in the 1970s. A music library recording was used as the theme of the British sitcom '' Please Sir!'' in 1968, and "Pop Looks Bach," recorded in 1970, was later used as the theme of the long-running television programme '' Ski Sunday''. He also composed the piano music heard at the beginning of 'The Colour Purple', (which he also performed on the soundtrack) and a theme tune used for The Russian News. His work was also featured on ''
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'' (a vaudeville duo use Fonteyn's "Galloping Gertie" as a vamp in a recurring gag). Soden was born in
Birmingham Birmingham ( ) is a city and metropolitan borough in the metropolitan county of West Midlands in England. It is the second-largest city in the United Kingdom with a population of 1.145 million in the city proper, 2.92 million in the We ...
''England & Wales, Civil Registration Birth Index, 1916-2007'' and died in
Islington Islington () is a district in the north of Greater London, England, and part of the London Borough of Islington. It is a mainly residential district of Inner London, extending from Islington's High Street to Highbury Fields, encompassing the ...
, London.


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1925 births 1991 deaths Musicians from Birmingham, West Midlands Vaudeville Ragtime composers English television composers English classical composers English classical pianists 20th-century classical pianists 20th-century English composers {{composer-stub