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5 days ago · A former trombone player in 1940s big band jazz ensembles turned arranger-composer, Riddle created magic in these collaborations. He found ways to take the songs of the Great American Songbook and arrange them in a way that was perfect for each artist.
3 days ago · It’s crucial to note the album was the last time Sinatra would record with Nelson Riddle, the arranger who had helped define the singer’s ring-a-ding sound in the ’50s. The pair went out on ...
5 days ago · The most representative of the great chemistry between Sinatra and the band arguably came from one of the tracks on this album, which is also one of the most celebrated songs of Sinatra’s whole career – I’ve Got You Under My Skin, and its breathtakingly boastful middle section.
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2 days ago · Composer and publisher James E. Myers — working under the pen name “Jimmy De Knight” — and lyricist Max C. Freedman wrote “Rock Around the Clock” in late 1952 with Bill Haley in mind.
5 days ago · Composer/arranger Nelson Riddle and Frank Sinatra are featured in today’s Song of the Day, singing a composition by Johnny Mercer. Composer and lyricist Johnny Mercer, a stalwart author of the Great American Songbook, was born on this day (November 18), in Savanah, Georgia, in 1909.
