Arthur Greenslade

Arthur Greenslade was an arranger and conductor whose career extended from the pop music of the 1950s thru the 1990s, with more than one or two detours into rock and soul music during the 1960s and 1970s. Born in 1923, he was a musical prodigy who was taking piano lessons at four, and playing in a band at age 15. From that semiprofessional beginning in Gillingham, Kent, Greenslade moved through dance bands led by Cyril Stapleton and Vic Lewis, among others. He became still more visible when he joined Oscar Rabin's band on the BBC series Go Man Go. Greenslade later led his own ...