Works
As a composer, Clayton has scored the films Ragman’s Daughter, The Pied Piper, The 14, Brother Sun, Sister Moon, The Savage Hunt, and the final Morecambe and Wise project, Night Train To Murder. Clayton's stage credits include the scores for Bertie (with Mike Margolis), Oedipus, Ring Your Mother, Box, and The Mistress (with Bruce Montague). Clayton's theatre credits as musical director and arranger include The Sound of Music and Someone Like You (both with Petula Clark), No Strings, Privates On Parade, Billy, Song & Dance, and Nightingale.
Clayton has composed, scored and recorded incidental music for spoken word albums including such titles as The Secret Garden (read by Glenda Jackson), A Journey to the Center of the Earth (read by Tom Baker), Puckoon (read by Spike Milligan), and Black Beauty (read by Angela Rippon). For Peter O'Toole, he composed incidental music to accompany his readings of Shakespearean ballads and sonnets.
In television, Clayton has worked as a musical director and accompanist on several series and specials, including Shirley Bassey and Count Basie's Something Special (for NBC), Petula Clark's Traces Of Love (for ATV), The Vocal Touch - Anita Harris (for BBC2), and the original series Company & CO (for BBC2), Coming Next (for Channel 4), and Lilly Live (for LWT).
The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra commissioned him to write the nine-minute tone poem, Il Palio Di Siena.
Clayton's most recent CD, Kenny Clayton Plays Tribute To Petula Clark & Matt Monro, was released on November 21, 2005. The Kenny Clayton Trio has released two albums of songs associated with Frank Sinatra, Nice 'n Easy and All The Way.
He now divides his time between London and Menorca. In 2011 he has played on serval occasions at the Alley Cat venue in Denmark Street London with long-time friend, crooner Paul Ryan.
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