Ted Royal

Ted Royal [Dewar] (6 September 1904, Skedee, Oklahoma - 27 March (?) 1981) was an American orchestrator, conductor and composer for Broadway theatre. He was most active in the 1940s and 1950s, being associated with the very successful original productions of Lerner and Loewe's Brigadoon and Paint Your Wagon. Together with George Bassman he orchestrated Frank Loesser's Guys and Dolls. The dean of musical orchestrators, Robert Russell Bennett, remembered Royal as "one of Broadway's very special arrangers."

Birth and Death Data: Born Skedee (human settlement in Pawnee County, Oklahoma, United States of America), Died 1981

Date Range of DAHR Recordings: 1928 - 1941

Roles Represented in DAHR: songwriter

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Recordings

Company Matrix No. Size First Recording Date Title Primary Performer Description Role Audio
Victor BS-064660 10-in. 8/2/1941 Oahu Wayne King Orchestra Jazz/dance band songwriter  
Brunswick C1752-C1753 10-in. 3/21/1928 If you would care for me Leland Johnson Male vocal solo, with piano songwriter  

Citation

Discography of American Historical Recordings, s.v. "Royal, Ted," accessed December 26, 2025, http://adp.library.ucsb.edu/names/108418.

Royal, Ted. (2025). In Discography of American Historical Recordings. Retrieved December 26, 2025, from http://adp.library.ucsb.edu/names/108418.

"Royal, Ted." Discography of American Historical Recordings. UC Santa Barbara Library, 2025. Web. 26 December 2025.

DAHR Persistent Identifier

URI: http://adp.library.ucsb.edu/names/108418

External Sources

Wikipedia: Ted Royal

Grove: Ted Royal

IMDb: Ted Royal

Linked Open Data Sources

LCNAR: Royal, Ted, 1904-1981 - https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no00041039

Wikidata: Ted Royal - https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7693682

VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/53694336

MusicBrainz: Ted Royal - https://musicbrainz.org/artist/b475d288-891a-420a-a122-6756ca27cd87

Fast: https://id.worldcat.org/fast/1556164 - https://id.worldcat.org/fast/1556164

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