#Nelson Riddle

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Nelson Riddle - Changing Colors (1973)

Photography by Dorte Gröning

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Remembering Nelson Riddle on his birthday #botd 🎵

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[yt: Sinatra & Nelson Riddle]

[yt: Nina Simone]

[yt: Duke Ellington]

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Frank Sinatra - Fly Me To The Moon (Live At The Kiel Opera House, St. Lo...

Perfect Song for this evenings rooftop view.

Shoo be doo be doo!

He actually throws one of those into this performance...lol... its Top of The Heap Frank!

Enjoy

~BrooklynRed

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Midcentury Coquette

(Credits to @barbiescanner )

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Frank Sinatra – Songs For Swingin´ Lovers!

Songs for Swingin’ Lovers! is the tenth studio album by American singer Frank Sinatra, and his fourth for Capitol Records. It was arranged by Nelson Riddle and released in March 1956 on LP and January 1987 on CD.

Frank Sinatra – vocals Nelson Riddle – arranger, conductor

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Ella Fitzgerald with Nelson Riddle,   "My One and Only Love"

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Peggy Lee - The Glory of Love (World Record Club)

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Song of the Day - “Just One of Those Things”

Today is the 70th anniversary of a recording session at Hollywood Studios in LA … April 7th, 1954...

for Frank Sinatra’s 8th studio album “Swing Easy”…which would get released in August.

But today was the first of two recording sessions, and is particularly notable for being the birth of one of the great pairings in music - Sinatra with arranger Nelson Riddle... a marriage made in swing heaven … this was their first collaboration with Riddle as the arranger...

The band was Harry Edison on trumpet, Tommy Pederson, Ray Sims, and George Roberts on trombones, Skeets Herfurt, Mahlon Clark, Babe Russin, Eddie Miller, and Joe Koch on saxes, Bill Miller on piano, Allan Reuss on guitar, Joe Comfort on bass, Alvin Stoller on drums, and Frank Flynn on the vibes…

Of the handful of songs recorded today, this one, Cole Porter’s “Just One of Those Things” is the perfect slice of this new duo’s magic.

The whole album is delicious, but this is the sweetest of the cuts… truly a trip to the moon on gossamer wings…

[Mary Elaine LeBey]

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Year-End Poll #7: 1956

One of the interesting things about doing these polls is seeing how going through each decade starts to feel like a countdown to some great cultural moment. I imagine the 60s polls will feel like a countdown to Beatlemania, the 70s to disco, the 80s to the MTV era, the 90s to grunge, the 00s to the mp3 era, and the 10s to streaming. And the 50s felt like a countdown to Elvis Presley.

So much has already been said about Elvis, from his "King of Rock and Roll" moniker; to his producer' Sam Phillips' infamous quote about making a billion dollars using a white man to make Black music; to the numerous controversies and legends that could only be attached to a figure of this level of cultural impact -- for better or for worse. As many know, one of the Elvis songs featured in this poll, Hound Dog, was a cover of the blues song originally recorded by Big Mama Thornton. For the sake of these polls, the songs will be voted based on the versions that reached the Billboard charts. However, I still found it important to highlight the song's origins. Many may also know that his rendition of Hound Dog lead to an outrage of controversy, because he had the audacity to move his h*ps on The Milton Berle Show.

If you disregard Elvis the Pelvis, however, the top of the 1956 charts may not feel all that different from prior years. We still see a lot of the traditional pop, vocal quartets, and jazz standards we've grown accustomed to. Which makes sense. Not only do changes rarely happen overnight, but the full snapshot of the culture at any given time can rarely be seen in the Billboard charts -- much less the top ten picks from said chart. However, something is definitely different.

In my opinion, the most telling evidence of this change isn't Elvis Presley. It's Kay Starr's Rock and Roll Waltz. For one, it's a novelty song -- a style of music popular in this decade and will only see more popularity as we move into the 60s. But it goes beyond that. The joke of the song is that the narrator of the song sees her parents try to dance the waltz to this new "rock and roll" music, and she's commenting on the absurdity of it. As the song says, "it's old, but it's new". Some less charitable modern listeners may even call it the "how do you do, fellow kids?" of 1956. That's how you know that something is shifting in the culture, and record labels are scrambling to catch up.

In addition to the change in sound, 1956 also brings us an expanded Billboard Chart to pull from. With more young people listening to their own music, charts began to focus more on retail record sales, rather than performances in public venues like previous years. However, we're still a few years away from the Billboard Top 100.

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Twenty-five years ago I dumped a couple dozen quarters into a dive bar jukebox and played this song continuously until an enraged old man threatened to punch me in the head. He didn’t, but he did unplug the jukebox.

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The Company Way / Paris Original (Company Party)" from How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying (1967) Songs by Frank Loesser Arranged by Nelson Riddle

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Nelson Riddle and Nat King Cole working in Los Angeles in 1958.

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MOONLIGHT SINATRA (Reprise, March 1966) was Frank Sinatra's last theme LP with Nelson Riddle, consisting entirely of moon-themed songs:

"Moonlight Becomes You" (Johnny Burke/Jimmy Van Heusen)

"Moon Song" (Sam Coslow/Arthur Johnston)

"Moonlight Serenade" (Glenn Miller/Mitchell Parish)

"Reaching for the Moon" (Irving Berlin)

"I Wished on the Moon" (Dorothy Parker/Ralph Rainger)

"Oh, You Crazy Moon" (Jonny Burke/Jimmy Van Heusen)

"The Moon Got in My Eyes" (Johnny Burke/Arthur Johnston)

"Moonlight Mood" (Harold Adamson/Peter DeRose)

"Moon Love" (Mack David/André Kostelanetz) (adapted from Tchaikovsky's Fifth Symphony)

"The Moon Was Yellow (And the Night Was Young)" (Fred E. Ahlert/Edgar Leslie)