Editing Ron Goodwin (section)

=== Early career ===
In 1943, after a brief spell as an insurance clerk, Goodwin joined Campbell, Connelly and Company, a music publisher.<ref name=dnb/> His job was a copyist and arranger and went on to work in that role for the [[British Broadcasting Corporation|BBC]].<ref name=dnb/> He entered the world of movie music through documentary films, which he said was "a very good training". He worked as a [[ghostwriter]] for Phil Green, [[Stanley Black]], [[Gerald Bright|Geraldo]] and Peter Yorke among others. From 1949, Goodwin conducted for the Polygon company, arranging and conducting recordings of [[Petula Clark]]<ref name="Larkin50"/> and [[Jimmy Young (disc jockey)|Jimmy Young]], including the latter's 1951 UK no 1 hit "Too Young". In the 1950s he joined [[Parlophone]], and worked alongside [[George Martin]]. He accompanied [[Peter Sellers]] on his ''[[Goodness Gracious Me (song)|Goodness Gracious Me]]'' album,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.discogs.com/Peter-Sellers-Sophia-Loren-Goodness-Gracious-Me-Im-So-Ashamed/release/1576028|title=Peter Sellers & Sophia Loren – Goodness Gracious Me / I'm So Ashamed|year=1960 |publisher=Discogs.com|access-date=27 September 2014}}</ref> and began to broadcast and make records with his Ron Goodwin Concert Orchestra.

In 1953, Goodwin began arranging and conducting more than 300 recordings for over fifty performers, which resulted in more than 100 chart successes. He simultaneously made his own series of recordings and broadcasts as Ron Goodwin and his Concert Orchestra, and, in addition, began to compose scores for documentary films at [[Merton Park Studios]]. In 1958, Goodwin wrote his first feature film score for ''[[Whirlpool (1959 film)|Whirlpool]]'', with screenplay by Lawrence P. Bachmann.<ref name="Larkin50"/> After Bachmann became executive producer at MGM British Studios in 1959, Goodwin composed and conducted the music for most of its productions, as well as working for other film studios. His singles work included recordings with jazz and [[calypso music|calypso]] singer [[Frank Holder (musician)|Frank Holder]].