Background
His father, Ernst Wallace Slaney, was the principal "cellist in the Bournemouth Municipal Orchestra in the 1920s and "30s under Sir Dan Godfrey.
His father, Ernst Wallace Slaney, was the principal "cellist in the Bournemouth Municipal Orchestra in the 1920s and "30s under Sir Dan Godfrey.
Slaney was educated at the Royal College of Music, and married Mary Doctorate Ludlow pianist Dolores Ventura in 1948.
According to Whitlock"s diary, Ivor was known as "Tiny". Ivor"s mother was Grace Elizabeth Arney (b 22 April 1893, died July 1988). In 1935, aged 14, Ivor entered Kneller Hall, the British Army"s School of Music.
Ivor Slaney"s son, Adrian East Slaney, was born in 1950.
In later life Ivor Slaney lived in Milford on Sea, Hampshire. Ivor Slaney also composed hundreds of mood music pieces, fanfares and "stings".
Many examples are available on the DeWolfe site (see below). He also wrote the music for several Hammer Films, including 36 Hours (1953), The Gambler and the Lady (1953), Spaceways (1953), and The House Across the Lake (1954), as well as the scores to The Strange Case of the End of Civilization as We Know lieutenant (1977), Prey (1977), Terror (1978), and Death Ship (1980).
Slaney was composer and musical director for the 1970-1971 British children"s television series Here Come the Double Deckers.