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{{Short description|English composer (1922–1988)}}
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'''Martin Slavin''' (19 February 1922 – 25 May 1988) was a British composer and music director.

== Biography ==
Slavin was born in [[London]]. He served in the [[army]] as a Band Sergeant, and after demobilization formed his own seven piece band, working with musicians such as [[Eddie Calvert]] and [[Kenny Baker (trumpeter)|Kenny Baker]]. In 1958, he had a UK #18 in Record Mirror's Top 20, as Martinas & His Music, with the song "Cha Cha Momma Brown", a take on the old party favourite "Knees Up Mother Brown".

In the 1960s, Slavin composed the musical ''Nancy Wake'' and was a prolific session musician and music arranger and composer for television and cinema. He scored such diverse films as ''[[Information Received]]'' (1961), ''[[Pit of Darkness]]'' (1961), ''[[Danger by My Side]]'' (1962), ''[[Sherlock Holmes and the Deadly Necklace]]'' (1962),'' [[Danger by My Side]]'', ''[[The Cool Mikado]]'' (1963), ''[[The Wild Affair]]'' (1965), ''[[The Boy Cried Murder]]'' (1966) and the X-rated animated film ''[[Once Upon a Girl]]'' (1976). In 1961 he worked with [[Helen Shapiro]] on "You Don't Know" for Columbia records.

One of his music pieces, "Space Adventure" was used in the ''[[Doctor Who]]'' serial, ''[[The Tenth Planet]]'' as the [[Cybermen]]'s theme.  It was later used in ''[[The Moonbase]]'', ''[[The Tomb of the Cybermen]]'' and ''[[The Web of Fear]]''.

Slavin emigrated to [[Canada]] and then [[Hollywood, Los Angeles|Hollywood]], continuing to work on film productions such as the adult cartoon ''[[Once Upon a Girl]]'' (1976). He became a musical director on a [[cruise ship]] before returning to London in the 1980s.

Slavin was killed in a road accident on 25 May 1988, at the age of 66.

==References==
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==Sources==
* Who's Who of British Jazz by John Chilton. {{ISBN|0-8264-7234-6}}

==External links==
* {{IMDb name|id=0805593|name=Martin Slavin}}

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