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Nelson Riddle

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David Jacobs presents a series on one of the more celebrated arrangers of the postwar era.
4: A Swing Easy
This edition looks at Riddle's own instrumental hits in the 1950s and 1960s, including the 1956 US number one single Lisbon Antigua and the instantly recognisable television themes for Route 66, The
Untouchables and Batman.

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David Jacobs
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