Nelson Riddle discography
As bandleader[edit]
Select singles[edit]
- "Lisbon Antigua" { US # 1 - February 1956 }
- "Port Au Prince" { US # 20 - April 1956 }
- "Theme From The Proud Ones" { US # 39 - July 1956 }
- "Route 66 Theme" { US # 30 - June 1962 - AC # 9, 1962 }
- "Naked City Theme" { US # 130 - October 1962 }
- "What's New" (Featuring Linda Ronstadt) US # 53 - December 1983 - AC # 5, 1983
- "I've Got A Crush On You" (Featuring Linda Ronstadt) AC # 7, 1984
Sources: Billboard Top Pop Singles, Billboard Adult Contemporary Billboard Bubbling Under Singles Books
Albums[edit]
Capitol[edit]
- 1955 The Music from "Oklahoma!"
- 1956 Lisbon Antigua (EP)
- 1956 The Tender Touch
- 1957 Hey... Let Yourself Go
- 1958 C'mon... Get Happy
- 1958 Sea of Dreams
- 1958 Witchcraft!
- 1959 The Joy of Living
- 1959 Sing a Song with Riddle
- 1959 Original Music from the TV Show "The Untouchables"
- 1960 Music of the Motion Picture Can Can
- 1961 Magic Moments from "The Gay Life"
- 1961 Love Tide
- 1962 Route 66 Theme and Other Great TV Hits
- 1962 Love is a Game of Poker
- 1962 The Best of Nelson Riddle
- 1962 More Hit TV Themes
Reprise[edit]
- 1964 White on White, Shangri-La, Charade & Other Hits of 1964
- 1965 Interprets Great Music, Great Films, Great Sounds
- 1966 NAT: An Orchestral Portrait of Nat "King" Cole
Solid State Records[edit]
Liberty[edit]
- 1967 The Bright and the Beautiful
- 1968 The Riddle of Today
United Artists[edit]
- 1967 For Swinging Lovers
- 1968 The Contemporary Sound of Nelson Riddle
Capilano Records[edit]
- 1969 British Columbia Suite
Marble Arch Records[edit]
- 1970 Nelson Riddle Conducts the 101 Strings
Avon[edit]
- 1970 Avon Wishes You a Happy Holiday and a Joyous New Year
Bulldog Records[edit]
- 1970 The Look of Love
MPS Records[edit]
- 1971 Communication
- 1973 Changing Colors
Daybreak Records[edit]
- 1973 Vive LeGrand!
DRG[edit]
- 2006 Hey Diddle Riddle (recorded 1959)
As arranger[edit]
Notable arrangements[edit]
- "What Is This Thing Called Love" (for Keely Smith)
- "I've Got You Under My Skin" (for Frank Sinatra)
- "One For My Baby (And One More For The Road)" (for Frank Sinatra)
- "The Lady Is a Tramp" (for Frank Sinatra)
- "Come Rain or Come Shine" (for Judy Garland)
- "Zing! Went the Strings of My Heart" (for Judy Garland)
- "Mona Lisa" (for Nat King Cole)
- "Night and Day" (for Frank Sinatra)
- "On The Street Where You Live" (for Dean Martin)
- "Unforgettable" (for Nat King Cole)
- "What's New" (for Linda Ronstadt)
- "Witchcraft" (for Frank Sinatra)
- "Ain't That a Kick in the Head" (for Dean Martin)
For Frank Sinatra[edit]
Capitol albums[edit]
- 1953 Songs for Young Lovers
- 1954 Swing Easy!
- 1955 In the Wee Small Hours
- 1956 Songs for Swingin' Lovers
- 1957 Close to You
- 1957 A Swingin' Affair!
- 1958 Frank Sinatra Sings for Only the Lonely
- 1960 Nice 'n' Easy
- 1961 Sinatra's Swingin' Session!!!
Reprise albums[edit]
- 1963 The Concert Sinatra
- 1963 Sinatra's Sinatra
- 1963 Reprise Musical Repertory Theatre
- 1964 Sinatra Sings Days of Wine and Roses, Moon River, and Other Academy Award Winners
- 1964 Softly, As I Leave You
- 1964 America, I Hear You Singing
- 1964 Robin and the 7 Hoods (soundtrack)
- 1964 12 Songs of Christmas
- 1965 My Kind of Broadway
- 1965 Sinatra '65: The Singer Today
- 1966 Moonlight Sinatra
- 1966 Strangers in the Night
- 1968 The Sinatra Family Wish You a Merry Christmas
- 1977 Unfinished album ("Nancy," "Emily," "Linda," "Sweet Lorraine," "Barbara")
- 1979 Trilogy: Past Present Future ("Something")
- 1981 She Shot Me Down ("The Gal that Got Away"/"It Never Entered My Mind")
Reprise singles[edit]
- 1961 "Pocketful of Miracles"/"Name It and It's Yours"
- 1962 "The Look of Love"/"I Left My Heart in San Francisco"
- 1963 "California"/"America the Beautiful"
- 1963 "You Brought a New Kind of Love to Me"
- 1965 "Moment to Moment"
- 1968 "Blue Lace"/"Star!"
- 1976 "I Love My Wife"/"Evergreen" [unreleased]
- 1980 "Theme From 'New York, New York' - Reprise 7-49233
For Ella Fitzgerald[edit]
Verve albums[edit]
- 1959 Ella Fitzgerald Sings the George and Ira Gershwin Songbook
- 1962 Ella Swings Gently with Nelson
- 1962 Ella Swings Brightly with Nelson
- 1962 Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Jerome Kern Songbook
- 1964 Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Johnny Mercer Songbook
Pablo albums[edit]
- 1972 Ella Loves Cole (re-released in 1978 as Dream Dancing with two new tracks)
- 1982 The Best Is Yet to Come
For Nat King Cole[edit]
(All Capitol albums)
- 1953: Nat King Cole Sings for Two In Love
- 1954: Unforgettable
- 1955: The Piano Style of Nat King Cole
- 1956: Ballads of the Day
- 1958: St. Louis Blues
- 1958: Cole Español
- 1959: To Whom It May Concern
- 1960: Wild Is Love
- 2001: Night Lights — posthumous release for both Cole and Riddle; recorded in 1955/56
For other artists[edit]
- Anna Maria Alberghetti
- Warm and Willing (Capitol, 1960)
- Shirley Bassey
- Let's Face the Music (EMI, 1962)
- Rosemary Clooney
- Rosie Solves the Swingin' Riddle! (RCA, 1960)
- Love (Reprise, 1963)
- Bing Crosby
- Return to Paradise Islands (Reprise, 1964)
- Sammy Davis, Jr.
- That's Entertainment! (MGM, 1974)
- Buddy DeFranco
- Plays Nelson Riddle's Cross Country Suite (Dot, 1958)
- Eddie Fisher
- Games that Lovers Play (RCA, 1966)
- Judy Garland
- Judy (Capitol, 1956)
- Judy in Love (Capitol, 1958)
- Antonio Carlos Jobim
- Jack Jones
- Kiri Te Kanawa
- Blue Skies (Decca, 1985)
- Steve Lawrence
- Portrait of Steve (MGM, 1972)
- Peggy Lee
- The Man I Love (Capitol, 1957) (conducted by Frank Sinatra)
- Jump for Joy (Capitol, 1958)
- Dean Martin
- This Time I'm Swingin' (Capitol, 1960)
- Cha Cha de Amor (Capitol, 1962)
- Johnny Mathis
- I'll Buy You A Star (Columbia, 1962)
- Live it Up (Columbia, 1963)
- Yehudi Menuhin & Stéphane Grappelli
- Top Hat (EMI, 1981)
- Oscar Peterson
- Sue Raney
- When Your Lover Has Gone (Capitol, 1959)
- Mavis Rivers
- Take a Number (Capitol, 1959)
- Linda Ronstadt
- What's New? (Asylum, 1983)
- Lush Life (Asylum, 1984)
- For Sentimental Reasons (Asylum, 1986)
- Tommy Sands
- When I'm Thinking of You (Capitol, 1959)
- Dream with Me (Capitol, 1960)
- Dinah Shore
- Dinah, Yes Indeed! (Capitol, 1959)
- Phil Silvers
- Frank Sinatra, Jr.
- Spice (Daybreak Records, 1971)
- His Way! (Daybreak Records, 1972)
- Kate Smith
- The Best of Kate Smith (RCA Records, 1963-1967)
- Keely Smith
- I Wish You Love (Capitol, 1958)
- Swingin' Pretty (Capitol, 1959)
- Little Girl Blue/Little Girl New (Reprise, 1962)
- Barbra Streisand
- Pinky Tomlin
- Country Boy (Arvee Records, 1963)
- Ed Townsend
- Danny Williams
- Swinging For You (HMV, 1962)
Television work[edit]
- The Rosemary Clooney Show (1956)
- A Man and His Music (1965/1966/1967 award-winning television-specials for Frank Sinatra)
- The Julie Andrews Hour (1973)
- The Carpenters: Music, Music, Music (1980)
Film work[edit]
- Pal Joey (1957, starring Frank Sinatra)
- Till There Was You (from The Music Man in 1957)
- Can-Can (1960)
- Robin and the 7 Hoods (1964)
- Paint Your Wagon (1969)
- On a Clear Day You Can See Forever (1970)
As composer[edit]
Film and television work[edit]
- Lisbon (1956) (theme song topped the Billboard Top 100)
- Li'l Abner (1959)
- The Untouchables
- Route 66 (1960) (theme song earned Riddle a Top 40 single in 1962)
- Naked City (1960)
- Ocean's Eleven (1960)
- Lolita (1962)
- 4 for Texas (1963)
- A Rage to Live (1965)
- Batman (1966-68 TV series) (although Neal Hefti wrote the "Batman Theme" song, Riddle and Billy May scored the actual episodes)
- Batman
- El Dorado (1966)
- How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (1967)
- This Is Your Life (1971)
- Emergency! (1972)
- The Great Gatsby (which repopularized Irving Berlin's "What'll I Do" and earned Riddle the Academy Award for Best Original Song Score and Adaptation at the 47th Academy Awards)
- CHiPs (1977) some first-season episodes
Tributes to Riddle by other artists[edit]
- Erich Kunzel, Route 66 - That Nelson Riddle Sound (Telarc Records, 2000)
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