Ernest Tomlinson

About the artist

Ernest Tomlinson (born September 19, 1924) is an English composer, particularly noted for his Light music compositions. He is sometimes credited as Alan Perry. Ernest Tomlinson was born in 1924 in Rawtenstall, Lancashire into a musical family. Aged nine he became a chorister at Manchester Cathedral, where he was eventually appointed as Head Boy in 1939. He later attended Bacup and Rawtenstall Grammar Schools and at sixteen won a scholarship to Manchester University and the Royal Manchester College of Music.

Top songs

  1. Domestic Fun (a)
  2. Little Serenade
  3. First Suite Of English Folk Dances: No. 3 Dick's Maggot
  4. Suite: Graceful Dance
  5. Concert Jig
  6. Great Panorama
  7. First Suite Of English Folk Dances: No. 1 Jenny Pluck Pears
  8. First Suite Of English Folk Dances: No. 5 Hunt The Squirrel
  9. First Suite Of English Folk Dances: No. 4 Nonesuch
  10. Shenandoah
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  1. First Suite Of English Folk Dances: No. 2 Ten Pound Lass
  2. Dick's Maggot (from Suite of English Folk Dances)
  3. First Suite Of English Folk Dances: No. 6 Woodicock
  4. Comedy Overture
  5. Cumberland Square
  6. A Georgian Miniature
  7. Sweet and Dainty
  8. Passepied
  9. Kielder Water
  10. Light Music Suite: Pizzicato Humoresque
  11. Light Music Suite: Serenade
  12. Light Music Suite: Waltz For A Princess
  13. Little Serenada
  14. Second Suite Of English Folk Dances: Newcastle
  15. Lyrical Suite: Nocturne
  16. Dances From Aladin: Cushion Dance
  17. An English Overture
  18. Rhapsody and Rondo for Horn and Orchestra
  19. First Suite of English Folk-Dances (1991 Digital Remaster): Dick's Maggot
  20. 2 Miniature Dances: Rigadoon
  21. Gaelic Lullaby
  22. Dances From Aladin: Birdcage Dance
  23. First Suite of English Folk-Dances (1991 Digital Remaster): Jenny Pluck Pears
  24. Domestic Fun (b)
  25. First Suite of English Folk-Dances (1991 Digital Remaster): Ten pound lass
  26. The Story Of Cinderella: Fairy Coach
  27. First Suite of English Folk-Dances (1991 Digital Remaster): Nonesuch
  28. Nautical Interlude
  29. Domestic Fun (c)
  30. The Story Of Cinderella: Cinderella Waltz
  31. Second Suite Of English Folk Dances: Love-in-a-mist
  32. Cushion Dance
  33. Dances From Aladin: Belly Dance
  34. First Suite of English Folk-Dances (1991 Digital Remaster): Hunt the Squirrel
  35. Graceful Dance
  36. Silverthorn Suite: Canzonet
  37. Silverthorn Suite: Concert Jig
  38. Second Suite Of English Folk Dances: Catch Me If You Can
  39. Second Suite Of English Folk Dances: Chipping Lane
  40. Second Suite Of English Folk Dances: Kettledrum
  41. First Suite of English Folk-Dances (1991 Digital Remaster): Woodicock
  42. Silverthorn Suite: Alla Marcia
  43. Second Suite Of English Folk Dances: Up Goes Fly
  44. Nocturne
  45. Gaelic Sketches: Gaelic Lullaby
  46. 3 Pastoral Dances: Hornpipe
  47. 2.Suite englischer Volkstänze: Newcastle
  48. Domestic Fun: Bright Opening
  49. No. 5 Hunt the Squirrel
  50. Pizzicato Humoresque
  51. 2.Suite englischer Volkst?nze: Newcastle
  52. Tinkling Tune
  53. Rigadoon
  54. Gaiety Galop
  55. Suite of English Folk Dances: IV. Nonesuch
  56. No. 3 Dick's Maggot
  57. No. 6 Woodicock
  58. Busy Chatter
  59. No. 2 Ten Pound Lass
  60. No. 4 Nonesuch
  61. Capability Brown
  62. Hornpipe
  63. Fun For Fiddlers
  64. Starlight Special
  65. Jack-in-a-Box
  66. Up Goes Fly
  67. A Lament
  68. A Georgian Suite
  69. Suite of English Folk Dances: VI. Woodicock
  70. Suite of English Folk Dances: V. Hunt the Squirrel
  71. Little Serenade | Klassik Radio Live
  72. 1st Suite of English Folk Dances: II. Ten Pound Lass
  73. Waltz for a Princess
  74. Birdcage Dance
  75. Happy-Go-Lucky
  76. No. 1 Jenny Pluck Pears
  77. Belly Dance
  78. Serenade
  79. Fairy Coach
  80. Kettledrum
  81. Cantilena
  82. Elizabethan Serenade
  83. 2.Suite englischer Volkstänze: Newcastle | Klassik Radio Live
  84. Kielder Water | Klassik Radio Live
  85. Suite of English Folk Dances
  86. Bubbling Over
  87. Little Serenade für Orchester
  88. 1st Suite of English Folk Dances: IV. Nonesuch
  89. Stately Occasion
  90. Pink Elephant

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