Nelson Riddle Plays "Little Girl Blue"

Posted about 4 years ago
Another song by the great Richard Rodgers (music) and Lorenz Hart (words) is “Little Girl Blue” created in 1935 for their stage musical “Jumbo” which was later made into a movie in 1960 and starred Doris Day and Jimmy Durante. This time, Riddle opts for an impressionistic hued arrangement which has a stopped time feature played on reeds with masterful vibes solo (presumably by Emil Richards, a Riddle favorite musician at the time). The strings take over for a bath of appealing proportions before returning to the reeds and their stopped timing for the characteristic unfinished but still satisfying ending so typical of Riddle.

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