In 1971, Welch recorded an album, Clowns, including songs he had co-written with Tom Paxton[3] and session musicians such as Mike de Albuquerque and Cozy Powell.
This unlikely duo released an album in 1979 on the United Artists label, Spike Milligan and Ed Welch Sing Songs from Q8.
His credits at TVS included conducting a live two-and-a-half-hour New Year's Eve show, with 56 musical items, some of which he had also arranged.
[citation needed] Among his work for children, Welch composed the score for Andrew Bailey's Aesop in Fableland (Arista Records, 1979), which was narrated by Arthur Lowe and performed by the London Symphony Orchestra.
[16] He adapted fairy tales and wrote the scripts for a 1982 LP with Spike Milligan,[4] later developed into a children's cartoon series of the same name, Wolves, Witches and Giants, which ran from 1995 to 1999.
With Roger Messer, Welch ran South Western Studios in Torquay, a company which produced professional demonstration tapes for aspiring songwriters.