Tolchard Evans

b. Sydney Edmund Evans, 1901, Harringay, London, England, d. 12 March 1978, London, England. Evans began his music career as a silent film pianist. He went on to become a conductor and prolific songwriter - being responsible for one of the biggest international song hits of the 30s - ‘Lady Of Spain’ (1931). Evans also had considerable success with ‘If’ and ‘My September Love’. Other notable works included ‘Ballet Romantique’, ‘I’ll Sing To You’, ‘Somewhere Down In Brittany’, ‘Dreamy Devon’, ‘Valencia’, ‘Forty Million Churchills’, ‘There’s A Lovely Lake In London’, and ‘Ev’rywhere’ (written with Larry Khan) which won Most Popular Song at the first Ivor Novello Award ceremony in 1955.