The 1938 musical film "Cocoanut Grove" starred Fred MacMurray, Ben Blue and the always fabulous Eve Arden in a film that sported songs by Ralph Reed and Frederick Hollander. Riddle's arrangement is enchantingly airy and breathlessly sincere with an upwardly spiraling introduction before trumpets and saxes play the main melody supported by lower saxes. Tenor saxes and brass roll out phrases that...
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It's a little-known fact that on their first U.S. visit, in between their February appearances on the Ed Sullivan Show, The Beatles were supposed to play themselves in an episode of The Andy Griffith Show (also on CBS). Details were worked out, and a script was written, but at the last minute Brian Epstein decided to cancel the appearance.Recently, a draft of that script, called "Moptops In May...
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"Rain" was Rudy Vallee's claim to fame as it became the first song where he used his famous megaphone. That was in 1927 and the creator of this song is Eugene Ford. Nelson Riddle literally creates a light patter of rain in the opening bars of his arrangement with tremulous strings and bells which lead into Riddle's heart beat rhythm. Strings are the leading voice at the start with muted brass a...
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Nelson Riddle was one busy person in July 1957. He was the music director and arranger for Nat "King" Cole's ill fated NBC television show, receiving lots of air time for his own arrangements for orchestra thanks to Cole's selfless promotion of his great friend's work. Except for one telecast (where his spot was taken over by Gordon Jenkins), Riddle stayed with his friend Nat Cole until the bitter
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Master composer and lyricist Hoagy Carmichael wrote "I Get Along Without You Very Well" as a stand alone song in 1939, quickly establishing itself as one of the best remembered pop songs of its time. Bill Miller, Frank Sinatra's longtime pianist and music director, begins Riddle's chart with a perfectly poised piano performance which leads into a the statement of main melodic theme by flutes an...
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| 1 Hey There Lonely Girl |
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| 2 And When I Die |
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| 3 Can't Take My Eyes Off of You |
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| 4 The Wonder of You |
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| 5 Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes) |
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