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More Hit TV Themes
''More Hit TV Themes'' is the fifteenth studio album by American composer and arranger Nelson Riddle, and his last for Capitol Records. Origin and development Released in April 1963, ''More Hit TV Themes'' is a successor to '' Route 66 Theme and Other Great TV Hits'', released the year before. Both albums were outgrowths of the success of Nelson Riddle's instrumental "Route 66 Theme," which spent 12 weeks on the Billboard Hot 100 playlist in the summer of 1962, peaking at No. 30. When the theme was recorded, it seemed a natural to Capitol Records to create an album of other TV themes around it. Riddle had album producer Tom Morgan select the tunes. The release of ''Route 66 Theme and Other Great TV Hits'' earned two Grammy nominations at the 5th Annual Grammy Awards, for the Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Theme and the Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Arrangement. The Recording AcademyThe Recording Academy: Nelson Riddle accessdate: February 10, 2021 The popularity of the ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nelson Riddle
Nelson Smock Riddle Jr. (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. He worked with many world-famous vocalists at Capitol Records, including Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, Nat King Cole, Judy Garland, Dean Martin, Peggy Lee, Johnny Mathis, Rosemary Clooney and Keely Smith. He scored and arranged music for many films and television shows, earning an Academy Award and three Grammy Awards. He found commercial and critical success with a new generation in the 1980s, in a trio of Platinum albums with Linda Ronstadt. Early years Riddle was born in Oradell, New Jersey, the only child to survive to birth, and after, of Marie Albertine Riddle (a native of Mulhouse, France, whose father was Spanish) and Nelson Smock Riddle, who was of English-Irish and Dutch descent. His mother had suffered six miscarriages and one stillbirth in her lifetime. It was his mother's secon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |