Duncan Campbell (31 May 1926 – 12 December 2013) was a British trumpet player who played with Ted Heath and his Orchestra, Ronnie Scott, Syd Lawrence and the BBC Big Band.
His collection consisted of the works of Louis Armstrong, Henry Red Allen, Paul Whiteman, Count Basie and Harry Lauder.
Preager and his orchestra were invited by the Queen Mother to play at Buckingham Palace, where they were all introduced personally to each member of the Royal Family.
Finally, Duncan joined Ted Heath and his Orchestra, where he never missed a gig or recording in its fifty years of performances.
When Ted Heath and his music, started, it was mainly instrumental and relied upon drummer Jack Parnell and compere Paul Carpenter for vocals.
Ted Heath also had a number of singers, including Lita Roza, Dickie Valentine and Dennis Lotis.
He played many jazz solos on record and in concert, as well as being one the band's on-stage clowns, providing comedy interjections and falsetto vocals on numbers such as "Tequila".
There were so many encore calls at the Carnegie Hall performance that Nat King Cole (who was backstage, but not on the bill) had to come out on stage and ask people to leave.
However, by this time he had already started a musical career in film, most notably in Agatha Christie's The Mirror Crack'd, starring Elizabeth Taylor, Kirk Douglas and Tony Curtis.
In the 1990s, he had made three trips to Japan with the Ray McVay Band, performing 'The Glenn Miller Show' with singers and dancers.