The German composer Leon Jessel (1871-1942) served as conductor in Gelsenkirchen and Mülheim. Settling in Lübeck, he devoted himself to composing popular pieces. This will be remembered with great affection by the thousand who heard it as the signature tune for the children’s radio programme ‘Toytown’. (Guitar Cameos preface, Gregg Nestor, EMI Music Publishing, 1981)