Paddy Kingsland is a composer of electronic music. He is best known for his… Read Full Bio ↴Paddy Kingsland is a composer of electronic music. He is best known for his incidental music for science fiction series on BBC radio and television whilst working at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop.
He joined the BBC as a tape editor before moving on to become a studio manager for BBC Radio 1. In 1970, he joined the Radiophonic Workshop where he remained until 1981. His initial work was mostly signature tunes for BBC radio and TV programmes before going on to record incidental music for programmes including The Changes, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, as well as several serials of Doctor Who.
His work on Doctor Who included incidental music for the following serials (in order of transmission):
Meglos
Full Circle
State of Decay
Logopolis
Castrovalva
The Visitation
Mawdryn Undead
Frontios
He also contributed much to three versions of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. For the first two radio series, he contributed radiophonic sound effects, plus incidental music for the second radio series. His sound effects were also used on the Original Records LPs of the series and, along with Tim Souster, Paddy Kingsland provided further incidental music.
For the 1981 TV series of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Paddy Kingsland was chosen to provide all the sound effects and music, with the exception of the theme music.
Another well-known series which contained music composed by Paddy Kingsland are Around the World in 80 Days and Pole to Pole, both travel series by Michael Palin. Paddy Kingsland also composed music for many schools' television series including Words and Pictures, Rat-a-tat-tat, Watch, Numbercrew, Storytime, English Express, Music Makers, Hotch Potch House and the Look and Read stories "Joe and the Sheep Rustlers" and "The Boy from Space".
Since leaving the BBC, he has composed music for the KPM music library, television, commercials and corporate videos. He also owns his own studio, PK Studios. He is currently composing the music for the CITV series “Blips” produced by Ragdoll Productions.
In 1973, Fourth Dimension, a compilation of his early signature tune work for the Radiophonic Workshop, was released and in 2002, his incidental scores for the Doctor Who serials "Meglos" and "Full Circle" featured as part of the Doctor Who at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop compilation series. Eight albums of his library music work have been issued by KPM.
He joined the BBC as a tape editor before moving on to become a studio manager for BBC Radio 1. In 1970, he joined the Radiophonic Workshop where he remained until 1981. His initial work was mostly signature tunes for BBC radio and TV programmes before going on to record incidental music for programmes including The Changes, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, as well as several serials of Doctor Who.
His work on Doctor Who included incidental music for the following serials (in order of transmission):
Meglos
Full Circle
State of Decay
Logopolis
Castrovalva
The Visitation
Mawdryn Undead
Frontios
He also contributed much to three versions of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. For the first two radio series, he contributed radiophonic sound effects, plus incidental music for the second radio series. His sound effects were also used on the Original Records LPs of the series and, along with Tim Souster, Paddy Kingsland provided further incidental music.
For the 1981 TV series of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Paddy Kingsland was chosen to provide all the sound effects and music, with the exception of the theme music.
Another well-known series which contained music composed by Paddy Kingsland are Around the World in 80 Days and Pole to Pole, both travel series by Michael Palin. Paddy Kingsland also composed music for many schools' television series including Words and Pictures, Rat-a-tat-tat, Watch, Numbercrew, Storytime, English Express, Music Makers, Hotch Potch House and the Look and Read stories "Joe and the Sheep Rustlers" and "The Boy from Space".
Since leaving the BBC, he has composed music for the KPM music library, television, commercials and corporate videos. He also owns his own studio, PK Studios. He is currently composing the music for the CITV series “Blips” produced by Ragdoll Productions.
In 1973, Fourth Dimension, a compilation of his early signature tune work for the Radiophonic Workshop, was released and in 2002, his incidental scores for the Doctor Who serials "Meglos" and "Full Circle" featured as part of the Doctor Who at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop compilation series. Eight albums of his library music work have been issued by KPM.
the whale
Paddy Kingsland Lyrics
We have lyrics for 'the whale' by these artists:
Burl Ives The Whale (spoken) Here's a song about a whale with a most…
Electric Light Orchestra [Instrumental]…
Flanders and Swann The bottle-nosed whale is a furlong long And likewise wise, …
Laurie Anderson & Pool How to find you, maybe by your singing A weird trail…
Migala I built a nightmare on a whale Scheduled for evenings till…
Postcards From Mars All is lost in the world, Baby, can't you see? All holed…
Sue the Night It is the whale, the wale, the whale in the…
Takatak I'm gonna run I'm gonna find a way to the centre…
The Beggars The Whale The Whale ( Terry Fielding and Fred Dyer) ( Am) (…
The Limeliters 'Twas in eighteen hundred and fifty three And of June the…
The Whale Look around and see that people used to be a…
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ClassicTVMan1981X
An interesting sound heard on this song is called "Clarjang," a portmanteau of "clarinet" and "jangle," which is described by composer Peter Howell as being made up of the sound of a clarinet combined with a metallic jangle. Another sound, "Pluckvox," he described, was combining the sound of a plucked mandolin with that of the human voice.
Chris Hurley
This quite a gem, funny too. Doc Who and Hitchhiker's Guide got me into this guy.
Devan Hinskey
Book: Another thing that nobody made too much fuss about was the fact that against (0:00) all probability, a sperm whale had suddenly been called into existence some miles above the surface of an alien planet. And since this is not a naturally tenable position for a whale, this innocent creature had very little time to come to terms with its identity as a whale before it suddenly had to come to terms with suddenly not being a whale anymore.
Whale: Ahhh! What’s happening? Uh, excuse me! Who am I? Why am I here? What’s my purpose in life? What do I mean by ‘who am I’? Now, calm down, get a grip now. Oh! This is an interesting sensation! What is it? It’s a sort of yawning, tingling sensation in my, my- well, I suppose I’d better start finding names for things, so let’s call it my ‘stomach’. So a yawning, tingling sensation in my stomach. Good! And the whistling, roaring sound. That can be ‘wind’. Perhaps I can find a better name for it later when I find out what it’s for, because there certainly seems to be a hell of a lot of it! Hey! What’s this thing? This... Let’s call it a ‘tail’! Yeah, a tail! Yeah, I can really thrash it about really good, can’t I? Wow! WOW! Hey! Doesn’t seem to achieve much, but I’ll probably work out what it’s for later on. Hey, this is really exciting! So much to find out about, so much to look forward to; I’m quite dizzy with anticipation! Or is it the wind? WOW! What’s THIS thing suddenly coming towards me very fast? Very, very fast! So big and flat and wide. It needs a big, wide-sounding word like ‘round’, ‘ground’... GROUND! That’s it! GROUND! I wonder if it’ll be friends with me... (1:52)
Book: Curiously enough, the only thing that went through the mind of the bowl of petunias as it fell was “Oh no, not again.” Many people have speculated that if we knew exactly why the bowl of petunias had thought that, we should know a lot more about the Universe than we do now.
TheOneBlackSheep1973
And wow! Hey! What’s this thing suddenly coming towards me very fast? Very very fast. So big and flat and round, it needs a big wide sounding name like … ow … ound … round … ground! That’s it! That’s a good name – ground! I wonder if it will be friends with me?
Iris Toro
Oberheim obx and yamaha sy2 and possibly the Roland jupiter 4 has been used
ClassicTVMan1981X
Fairlight CMI Series II was also used here.