- He conducted the orchestra for Rod McKuen"s first television special, which aired on National Broadcasting Company in May 1969.
- He was a British conductor and arranger for films and television, as well as for a number of performers.
- For Shirley Bassey, he arranged "Goldfinger" and "Send in the Clowns".
- He was arranger and conductor on the Shirley Bassey albums "And I Love You So" "Never Never Never" "Good, Bad but Beautiful""Love, Life and Feelings" and "You Take My Heart Away.
- He became still more visible when he joined Oscar Rabin's band on the BBC series Go Man Go.
- He has conducted orchestras in the Hollywood Bowl and Carnegie Hall, and was Bassey"s musical director.
- He has arranged for Jack Jones, Chris Farlowe, Serge Gainsbourg, Genesis, Cat Stevens, Diana Ross, Dusty Springfield, The Bachelors and Kinderjazz.
- He arranged Ireland"s 1973 Eurovision Song Contest entry, "Do I Dream", sung by Maxi.
- He was most musically active in the 1960s and 1970s.
- He arranged the 1969 hit single "Je T'Aime ... Moi Non Plus" by Serge Gainsbourg and Jane Birkin.
- He was a musical prodigy who was taking piano lessons at four, and playing in a band at age 15.
- Arthur Greenslade was an arranger and conductor whose career extended from the pop music of the 1950s thru the 1990s, with more than one or two detours into rock and soul music during the 1960s and 1970s.
- Greenslade also conducted some easy listening recordings.
- He also played the piano on the Kinks' first hit, "You Really Got Me".
- From his semiprofessional beginning in Gillingham, Kent, Greenslade moved through dance bands led by Cyril Stapleton and Vic Lewis, among others.
- In the 1950s, he was pianist and arranger with the Oscar Rabin Band.
- Greenslade led in the fifties his own band, Arthur Greenslade & the G-Men, on the BBC's Saturday Club.
- He played piano in the rockabilly-style pick-up band (led by Joe Brown on guitar) backing Billy Fury on his legendary Sound of Fury album in 1960.
- During the late '50s, Greenslade turned to conducting and playing piano accompaniment on record, and was soon working with the likes of Val Doonican, Tom Jones, Engelbert Humperdinck, Johnny Mathis, Billy Fury, and Dusty Springfield, and served as an arranger as well.
- With Andrew Oldham he wrote "Headlines", the B-side of "Ride On Baby" (IM 038), by Chris Farlowe, which was released in 1966.
- Greenslade worked also on the hit "I Believe" by the Bachelors.
- He served as musical director for such American television broadcasts as the Hollywood Spectacular Variety Show and the Miss World Pageant.
- Greenslade's most widely exposed work in rock music was probably a single song he worked on for Andrew Oldham, in the latter's capacity as producer of the Rolling Stones and as founder and head of Immediate Records.
- Greenslade's work as musical director for Rod McKuen took him to Australia, and he and his wife eventually relocated there.
- By the mid-'60s he was a behind-the-scenes fixture in the British Invasion, serving as the music director on Them Featuring Van Morrison, by the Belfast-spawned R&B-based band Them, Cat Stevens' Decca LP New Masters, and on Dusty Springfield's The Look of Love album.
- He spent five years as the musical director for Engelbert Humperdinck and then a decade working in the same capacity for Shirley Bassey, and also enjoyed a long professional relationship with Rod McKuen.
- During the 1970s, Greenslade also worked with ABBA and Diana Ross.
- Greenslade was engaged as the arranger and conductor of the orchestral accompaniment on Chris Farlowe's hit single rendition of the Mick Jagger/Keith Richards-authored "Out of Time"; that same orchestral track also exists mated to a demo version sung by Jagger, which turned up on the Rolling Stones vault exhumation album Metamorphosis. (Although the Farlowe version was a huge hit in England, most serious Stones fans have little but contempt for Greenslade's string-and-horn-heavy arrangement, which made "Out of Time" seem much more of a pop song than it actually was.).
- Greenslade conducted at Carnegie Hall and the Hollywood Bow.
- Arthur Greenslade wrote several hundred arrangements across the decades, including those for "Love's Been Good to Me," "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie," and "Seasons in the Sun".
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