Harry Robertson (composer)

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Henry Macleod Robertson (sometimes credited as Harry Robinson) (19 November 1932 — 17 January 1996), was a composer. He was son of Henry Robertson of Elgin, Morayshire, Scotland. He married Ziki Arbuthnot who inherited the Wharton Barony in 1990. They had four children, the eldest of whom Myles is now the 12th Baron.

He wrote the music for a number of film and television productions some which are listed below.

He was responsible for writing and producing the pop song Hoots mon (not so much a song, more an instrumental take on Coming through the Rye with spoken interjections in a mock-Jock accent by Lord Rockingham's XI - undoubtedly a response to the recent Bill Haley hit Rockin' Through the Rye, based on the same traditional Scottish ditty originally written by Rabbie Burns), which stayed at Number 1 on the Hit Parade for three weeks in 1958. The then National Anthem of Zambia (basing it on The Bluebells of Scotland) is also contributed to him.

He produced and composed the music of Hawk the Slayer (1980), Prisoners of the Lost Universe (1982) and Jane and the Lost City (1988)^[1], co-writing the script of the first two.

He wrote a number of film scripts, television series and books, including The Electric Eskimo, The Boy Who Never Was, Sammy's Super T-Shirt and a regular composer for Hammer Film Productions.

He was composer and editor of these films and others: