The theme tune of which TV series was arranged by Fritz Spiegl from the traditional folk-song 'Johnny Todd'?
Fritz Spiegl Fritz Spiegl died suddenly during a Sunday lunch in Liverpool with his wife, Ingrid Frances Spiegl, and some friends. As a composer, Spiegl scored a popular success with the original theme from the TV series "Z-Cars", based on "Johnny Todd", a Liverpool sea shanty. He also composed the original theme for the "Z Cars" spin-off series "Softly, Softly"; the song was also released as a single on Andrew Loog Oldham's Immediate record label in 1966. His BBC Radio 4 "UK Theme", in which national songs from each of the four constituent countries of the United Kingdom are combined, was heard
Fritz Spiegl on Radio 4 at the beginning of each morning's broadcasting until April 2006 Fritz Spiegl Fritz Spiegl (27 January 1926 – 23 March 2003) was a musician, journalist, broadcaster, humorist and collector who lived and worked in Britain from 1939. Spiegl was born near the Hungarian border in the village of Zurndorf, Burgenland, Austria, where his father was a businessman manufacturing among other things carbonated water. Spiegl attended the "Gymnasium" in Eisenstadt but, as the family were Jewish, they were persecuted by the Nazis in the wake of the "Anschluss" of 1938. All their property having been confiscated, Fritz's parents