Ken (Kenny) Woodman was a British composer and

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. He was famous for the song "Town Talk", which was used as the theme song for Paul Kaye's shows on the

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station Radio London, and later as the theme song for Jimmy Young on BBC Radio 2. He posthumously became famous for the song "Mexican Flyer", which was originally released on the ''Ken Woodman and his Picadilly Brass'' album ''That's Nice'' in 1966. "Mexican Flyer" was used as the theme song for ''

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'', and was included in the soundtrack of ''

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'' and ''

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''. He was also music arranger for Shirley Bassey, Tom Jones and famously for

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, where he arranged and conducted " Puppet on a String" at the Eurovision Song Contest. Kenny Woodman was a musician in the Royal Marine Band, during WW2 and arranged a lot of their music in the early 1950s before moving into the music business.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Woodman, Ken 2000 deaths British jazz trumpeters British classical trumpeters British rock trumpeters Male trumpeters 20th-century classical musicians 20th-century British composers 20th-century trumpeters 20th-century British male musicians