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Edward William "Ed" Welch (born October 22, 1947) is an English television composer.
In 1971, he recorded an album, Clowns, including songs he had co-written with Tom Paxton, and session musicians including Mike de Albuquerque and Cozy Powell. In 1972, acted as producer on a version of “I Don't Know How to Love Him” by Sylvie McNeill (a.k.a. Sylvia McNeill) on a UK 45 on United Artists UA UP35415 released in time for the first UK Stage Musical of “Jesus Christ Superstar”.
In 1978 and 1979, he appeared in the Spike Milligan BBC series Q8 and Q9, performing his own songs (including The Carpet is Always Greener Under Someone Else's Bed and Love to Make Music by) and songs co-written with Milligan, including I've Got This Photograph of You! and Silly Old Baboon. This unlikely duo released an album in 1979 on the United Artists label, Spike Milligan and Ed Welch Sing Songs from Q8. Also in 1978, he composed the score for the remake of The Thirty Nine Steps, including an extended piano piece entitled The Thirty Nine Steps Concerto (a nod to Richard Addinsell's Warsaw Concerto). Welch recorded the piece with Christopher Headington as soloist.