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Nelson Riddle

BBC Radio 4
on BBC Radio 4 FM

'He said he wanted a Puccini sound.'
Nelson Riddle, American song arranger and composer, talks to Robert Cushman about his great partnership in the 50s with Frank Sinatra when the Sinatra-Riddle sound launched countless hits, and goes on a musical journey from his early days with Tommy Dorsey to such singers as Ella Fitzgerald and Nat 'King' Cole, up to the rock rhythms of today.
(First broadcast in Kaleidoscope)

Contributors

Interviewee:
Nelson Riddle
Interviewer:
Robert Cushman
Producer:
Richard Bannerman
Source: Radio Times

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