Alec Templeton

Alec Andrew Templeton (4 July 1909/10 – 28 March 1963) was a Welsh composer, pianist, and satirist. Templeton was born in Cardiff, Wales. There is some confusion concerning Alec Templeton's year of birth. Most published and Internet biographies give his birth year as 1909, and it was certainly registered in September of that year, but his headstone shows 1910 as his year of birth. Blind from birth and gifted with absolute pitch, he studied from the age of 9 at Worcester College, Oxford with Ivor Atkins (organ) and later at London's Royal Academy of Music, where his piano teachers were Lloyd Powell and Isador Goodman.

Birth and Death Data: Born July 4, 1909 (Cardiff), Died January 1, 1963 (Greenwich)

Date Range of DAHR Recordings: 1938 - 1942

Roles Represented in DAHR: piano, composer, speaker, vocalist, arranger

= Recordings are available for online listening.
= Recordings were issued from this master. No recordings issued from other masters.

Recordings

Company	Matrix No.	Size	First Recording Date	Title	Primary Performer	Description	Role
Victor	PBS-026317	10-in.	12/15/1938	Pardonnez moi madame	Tito Guizar	Dubbed from film : Male vocal solo	composer
Victor	BS-030702	10-in.	12/15/1938	Bach goes to town	Benny Goodman Orchestra	Jazz/dance band	composer
Victor	PBS-036413	10-in.	8/16/1939	Body and soul	Alec Templeton	Piano solo	instrumentalist, piano
Victor	PBS-036414	10-in.	8/16/1939	Star dust	Alec Templeton	Piano solo	instrumentalist, piano
Victor	PBS-036415	10-in.	8/16/1939	Night and day	Alec Templeton	Piano solo	instrumentalist, piano
Victor	PBS-036416	10-in.	8/16/1939	Mendelssohn mows 'em down	Alec Templeton	Piano solo	instrumentalist, piano, composer
Victor	PBS-036417	10-in.	8/16/1939	Three little fishies (Itty bitty poo)	Alec Templeton	Piano solo	instrumentalist, piano
Victor	PBS-036418	10-in.	8/16/1939	Man with a new radio	Alec Templeton	Piano solo	instrumentalist, piano, composer
Victor	PBS-036419	10-in.	8/16/1939	Mary had a little lamb	Alec Templeton	Piano solo	arranger, instrumentalist, piano
Victor	PBS-036420	10-in.	8/16/1939	And the angels sing (As it might be presented at the Metropolitan Opera House)	Alec Templeton	Comic monologue, with piano and male vocal solo	instrumentalist, piano, speaker, vocalist
Victor	PBS-036421	10-in.	8/16/1939	The phonograph and player piano	Alec Templeton	Piano solo	instrumentalist, piano, composer
Victor	PBS-036422	10-in.	8/16/1939	Phonograph record, player piano, and Carmen Lombardo	Alec Templeton	Piano solo	instrumentalist, piano, composer
Victor	PBS-036423	10-in.	8/16/1939	Hazy and blue	Alec Templeton	Piano solo	instrumentalist, piano, composer
Victor	BS-046495	10-in.	1/23/1940	As Brünnhilde's battle cry might be sung by an American crooner	Alec Templeton	Comic monologue, with piano and male vocal solo and talk	instrumentalist, piano, speaker, composer, vocalist
Victor	BS-046496	10-in.	1/23/1940	Mozart matriculates	Alec Templeton	Piano solo, with talk	speaker, instrumentalist, piano, composer
Victor	BS-046497	10-in.	1/23/1940	Opera presentation : South of the border	Alec Templeton	Comic monologue, with piano and male vocal solo	speaker, instrumentalist, piano
Victor	BS-046498	10-in.	1/23/1940	A sultry day in New York	Alec Templeton	Piano solo, with talk	speaker, instrumentalist, piano, composer
Victor	BS-046499	10-in.	1/23/1940	Bach tours Radio City	Alec Templeton	Piano solo, with talk	instrumentalist, piano, speaker, composer
Victor	BS-046700	10-in.	1/23/1940	Sousa and Strauss in reverse	Alec Templeton	Piano solo, with talk	instrumentalist, piano, speaker, composer
Victor	BS-063722	10-in.	4/8/1941	Mother's Day song	Roy Bargy ; Lanny Ross	Male vocal solo, with instrumental ensemble	composer
Victor	BS-067594	10-in.	8/18/1941	Bach goes to town	Dixieland Octet of NBC's Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street ; Henry Levine	Jazz/dance band, with speaker	composer
Decca	70377	10-in.	2/21/1942	Blues in the night	Alec Templeton		instrumentalist, piano
Decca	70378	10-in.	2/21/1942	Concerto in A minor, op. 16, 1st mvt. (Allegro) (Grieg)	Alec Templeton		instrumentalist, piano
Decca	70379	10-in.	2/21/1942	Summertime	Alec Templeton		instrumentalist, piano
Decca	70380	10-in.	2/21/1942	It ain't necessarily so	Alec Templeton		instrumentalist, piano
Decca	70381	10-in.	2/21/1942	Sleepy lagoon	Alec Templeton		instrumentalist, piano
Decca	70382	10-in.	2/21/1942	Symphony No.6 in B minor, Op. 74, 1st mvt (Andantino) (Tchaikovsky)	Alec Templeton		instrumentalist, piano
Decca	70889	10-in.	6/15/1942	Warsaw concerto (Addinsell): Part 1	Alec Templeton		instrumentalist, piano
Decca	70890	10-in.	6/15/1942	Warsaw concerto (Addinsell): Part 2	Alec Templeton		instrumentalist, piano
Decca	71231	10-in.	7/28/1942	Warsaw concerto, part 1 (Addinsell)	Alec Templeton		instrumentalist, piano
Decca	71232	10-in.	7/28/1942	Warsaw concerto, part 2 (Addinsell)	Alec Templeton		instrumentalist, piano

Citation

Discography of American Historical Recordings, s.v. "Templeton, Alec," accessed April 18, 2024, https://adp.library.ucsb.edu/names/105908.

Templeton, Alec. (2024). In Discography of American Historical Recordings. Retrieved April 18, 2024, from https://adp.library.ucsb.edu/names/105908.

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