Time: 59:09
Size: 135.4 MB
Styles: Easy Listening, Vocal jazz
Year: 2012
Art: Front
[2:35] 1. Somebody Loves Me
[2:05] 2. Cheerful Little Earful
[2:18] 3. I Hear Music
[3:29] 4. Georgia On My Mind
[3:32] 5. Call Me Darling
[2:49] 6. Love Me Or Leave Me
[3:59] 7. The Gentleman Is A Dope
[2:54] 8. Mean To Me
[2:42] 9. What Am I Here For
[3:32] 10. I Can't Get Started
[2:44] 11. Alone Together
[2:06] 12. Pick Yourself Up
[3:46] 13. Don't Be That Way
[3:21] 14. All Of Me
[2:36] 15. I Only Have Eyes For You
[2:58] 16. I'm Gonna Go Fishin'
[2:31] 17. Darn That Dream
[3:31] 18. I Won't Dance
[2:58] 19. When Your Lover Has Gone
[2:34] 20. It's A Pity To Say Goodnight
Born June 1, 1921 in Oradell, NJ, Nelson Smock Riddle studied piano as a child, later switching to trombone at the age of 14. After getting out of the service, he spent 1944-1945 as a trombonist with the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra, also writing a couple of arrangements (“Laura”, “I Should Care”). By the end of 1946, with the help of good friend, Bob Bain, he secured a job arranging for Bob Crosby in Los Angeles. He then became a staff arranger at NBC Radio in 1947, and continued to study arranging and conducting with Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco and Victor Young.
Soon he was occasionally writing for Nat King Cole, initially as a ghost-arranger. However, the successes of his arrangements for “Mona Lisa” (1950) and “Too Young” (1951) set him on his way to doing most of Nat’s music at Capitol Records. By this time, Nelson Riddle had become conductor of the orchestra and had his name printed on the record label. He was no longer an anonymous arranger.
When Frank Sinatra signed with Capitol Records in 1953, the label encouraged him to work with the up-and-coming Riddle, who was now Capitol’s in-house arranger. Though he had helped Nat achieve his biggest hit, “Mona Lisa”, Sinatra was still reluctant. He soon recognized the freshness of Dad’s approach, however, and eventually came to regard him as his most sympathetic collaborator. The first song they cut together was “I’ve Got the World on a String.” When Sinatra and Dad began to record conceptually unified albums that created consistent moods, the results were some of the finest and most celebrated albums in the history of popular music. There was a great mutual respect between them. As Dad comments in his 1985 KCRW interview, “He opened some doors which without his intervention would have remained closed to me.”
Dad’s work with Ella Fitzgerald on the Gershwin Songbook in 1959 was considered one of the most elegant and unique interpretations of a most amazing body of work. ~Rosemary Riddle
Soon he was occasionally writing for Nat King Cole, initially as a ghost-arranger. However, the successes of his arrangements for “Mona Lisa” (1950) and “Too Young” (1951) set him on his way to doing most of Nat’s music at Capitol Records. By this time, Nelson Riddle had become conductor of the orchestra and had his name printed on the record label. He was no longer an anonymous arranger.
When Frank Sinatra signed with Capitol Records in 1953, the label encouraged him to work with the up-and-coming Riddle, who was now Capitol’s in-house arranger. Though he had helped Nat achieve his biggest hit, “Mona Lisa”, Sinatra was still reluctant. He soon recognized the freshness of Dad’s approach, however, and eventually came to regard him as his most sympathetic collaborator. The first song they cut together was “I’ve Got the World on a String.” When Sinatra and Dad began to record conceptually unified albums that created consistent moods, the results were some of the finest and most celebrated albums in the history of popular music. There was a great mutual respect between them. As Dad comments in his 1985 KCRW interview, “He opened some doors which without his intervention would have remained closed to me.”
Dad’s work with Ella Fitzgerald on the Gershwin Songbook in 1959 was considered one of the most elegant and unique interpretations of a most amazing body of work. ~Rosemary Riddle
The Complete Sessions
Lovely post many thanks mat . Ella has never been equalled.
ReplyDeleteHuh? Complete? Who are they kidding? On Ella Swings Gently With Nelson there were 15 tracks and on Ella Swings Brightly With Nelson there were also 15 tracks. That makes 30 in all and there are only 20 listed here. Not to mention the Gershwin Songbook that Rosemary Riddle mentioned. Either there's a lot missing, or there's another volume, or they're scamming the purchaser.
ReplyDeleteCan this possibly be re-upped please? Thank you!
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ReplyDeleteAny chance of a reup. The link is dead. Thanks in advance.
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