NELSON RIDDLE
Nelson Riddle (June 1, 1921 – October 6, 1985) was an American arranger, composer, bandleader and orchestrator whose career stretched from the late 1940s to the mid-1980s. His work for Capitol Records kept such vocalists as Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, Nat King Cole, Judy Garland, Dean Martin, Peggy Lee, Johnny Mathis, Rosemary Clooney, and Keely Smith household names. He found commercial and critical success again in the 1980s with a trio of Platinum albums with Linda Ronstadt. His orchestrations earned an Academy Award and three Grammy Awards. (More from Wikipedia)
Over the years, Linda Ronstadt has had the wherewithal and the talent and the drive to try her hand at almost every musical form there is. After an amazing string of hit albums, Linda released an album of standards called What’s New, the first of three albums that she made with legendary conductor and arranger Nelson Riddle. It was the first successful album from the Great American Song Book by a rock performer and paved the way for numerous such albums by male and female rockers alike.
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