Keith Mansfield

British composer and arranger (born 1941) Keith MansfieldBorn1940 (age 85–86)Slough, EnglandGenresTelevision scoreOccupationsComposer, arrangerMusical artist Keith Mansfield (born 1940 in Slough, England) is a British composer and arranger known for his creation of prominent television theme tunes, including the Grandstand theme for the BBC. Career Mansfield's other works include "The Young Scene" (the original 1968 theme to The Big Match), "Light and Tuneful" (the opening theme for the BBC's coverage of the Wimbledon Tennis Championships), "World Champion" (the closing theme for NBC's coverage of the same tournament), and "World Series" (used for the BBC's athletics coverage). One of his library music recordings, "Teenage Carnival", was used as the theme to the 1960s ITV children's television series Freewheelers. He has also composed film scores for British films such as Loot (1970) and Taste of Excitement (1970), and the western Three Bullets for a Long Gun (1971). He also scored the start-up and shutdown themes for Granada Television in 1978, which were used for ten years before it switched to 24-hour television. Mansfield is perhaps best known by American audiences as the com