 Over the years, most of the UK's top musicians played with Geraldo's orchestra, including Ted Heath, who played first trombone in the orchestra before leaving to form his own band and the guitarist Ken Sykora, later to become a respected radio personality, and trumpeter Freddie Jameson.In the 1950s, he composed the start-up music for Scottish Television.Entitled "Scotlandia", it was heard virtually every day for over thirty years at the beginning of programmes.