Tony Hatch
b. 1939, Pinner, England. Hatch earned one lowly British Top 50 entry under his own name (with 1962's Out Of This World, a light orchestral outing) before emerging as a respected songwriter, arranger and producer. While on National Service, he had been permitted to leave his London barracks most afternoons to continue as a freelance musical director with Top Rank and then Pye—for which he had supervised two domestic smashes in 1961 for the Brook Brothers, while gaining lesser accolades with the Kestrels. In 1963, he joined those digging pop gold around Merseyside. An ill-judged choice of recorded repertoire for the Undertakers was mitigated by a novel arrangement of I Could Write A Book (from Pal Joey) for the Chants and much more so by his propagation of the Searchers’ international hit parade run—which included his composition Sugar And Spice (under the pseudonyn Fred Nightingale) as their stabilizing second single. He was, however, more at home with the middle-of-the-road sophistications of Petula Clark's Downtown smash of 1964. He continued writing memorable hit songs for her for many years. Professional and personal joys merged the following year through the chart-topping Where Are You Now (My Love) which he co-wrote with Jackie Trent, its singer and his future spouse. Buoyed by two lesser UK hits for, the Hatches had fun as a husband-and-wife recording team—notably with 1967's Long Is The Lonely Night and their theme song The Two Of Us—plus cabaret turn's until the '70s when Hatch was contracted by ITV to pass acerbic but well-qualified comment on acts arrayed in NEW FACES, a long-running Saturday evening talent show. In 1974 he wrote and produced the number 1 hit for Sweet Sensation Sad Sweet Dreamer. His longest running success has been with television theme songs: three notable songs set to give him pop immortality are MR AND MRS, CROSSROADSand NEIGHBOURS. 
Further reading: SO YOU WANT TO BE IN THE MUSIC BUSINESS, Tony Hatch.