William Davies

A longtime star of the BBC Radio Light Programme, pianist, composer, and arranger William Davies later wrote a series of scores for British television. Born in Lancashire on June 26, 1921, Davies studied piano under his uncle Harold, winning a series of festivals as an adolescent. At 14, he was nevertheless apprenticed to a bookbinder, but continued playing music as time allowed. After his family relocated to Birmingham, Davies began working at International Chemical Industries' Witton laboratory, moonlighting as the organist at Aston's Lozells Picture House; during World War ...