| Music for Wives and Lovers | ||||
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| Released | 1967 | |||
| Recorded | 1967 | |||
| Genre | Pop music | |||
| Label | Solid State SS 18013 | |||
| Producer | Sonny Lester | |||
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Music for Wives and Lovers is an album by American composer and arranger Nelson Riddle. [1] It was his only release on the Solid State Records label.
Producer/musician Sonny Lester signed Riddle to the Solid State label. The liner notes report that he assembled a 42-piece orchestra "and supplied them with arrangements that are fresh and imaginative and in the free-wheeling, youthful spirit of the day." Riddle familiarly "features the harman-mute trumpet, the bass trombone and the baritone sax for powerhouse impact," and added the "exciting sound of the organ." [2]
Billboard Magazine put the release in its "Pop Spotlight" as "A Billboard pic," with this review:
For more than a year after its release, Music for Wives and Lovers was listed in Cash Box's Basic Album Inventory. The list identifies best selling pop albums other than those appearing on the magazine's Top 100 album chart, "top steady selling LP's, as well as recent chart hits still going strong in sales." [4]
In 1967 and 1969, respectively, United Artists Records released the album in vinyl format in Germany and The Netherlands, under the title For Swinging Lovers. [5]
"Mr. Sandman" is a popular song written by Pat Ballard and published in 1954. It was first recorded in May of that year by Vaughn Monroe & his orchestra and later that year by The Chordettes and the Four Aces. The song's lyrics convey a request to "Mr. Sandman" to "bring me a dream" – the traditional association of the folkloric figure. The pronoun used to refer to the desired dream is often changed depending on the sex of the singer or group performing the song, as the original sheet music publication, which includes male and female versions of the lyrics, intended.
"A Swingin' Safari" is a 1962 instrumental composed by Bert Kaempfert, using his alias, Bernd Bertie. It was recorded by Kaempfert on Polydor Records and released in the United States on Decca Records. The song features a distinctive main theme played on the piccolo as substitute for the traditional tin whistle, and a trumpet solo by Manfred "Fred" Moch. The prominent bass line is by Ladi Geisler. Kaempfert's recording of the song did not reach the charts, but a near-simultaneous cover by Billy Vaughn reached #13 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 and No. 5 on the Easy Listening chart.
"Moon Over Naples" is a 1965 instrumental composed and recorded by German bandleader Bert Kaempfert. The instrumental version reached No. 6 on Billboard's Adult Contemporary chart. It won a BMI Award in 1968.
Sinatra Reprise: The Very Good Years is a 1991 single disc compilation taken from the four disc box set The Reprise Collection, a 1990 box set by the American singer Frank Sinatra. For many years, this was the only collection of Sinatra's Reprise work on one disc until 2008's collection Nothing But The Best. The Very Good Years reached #98 on the Billboard Top 200 album charts in 1991.
Johnny Mathis Sings the Music of Bacharach & Kaempfert is an album by American pop singer Johnny Mathis that was released in the fall of 1970 by Columbia Records. While one half of the two-record set was a compilation of tracks from his previous albums that were composed by Burt Bacharach, the other consisted of new recordings of songs composed by Bert Kaempfert, including a new version of "Strangers in the Night", which Mathis had already recorded in 1966 for his LP Johnny Mathis Sings. Although the Kaempfert tribute was similar to recent Mathis albums in that he was mainly covering songs made popular by other singers, it was absent of hits from the 12 months previous to its release that had become the pattern of his output at this point. The latest US chartings of any of the Kaempfert compositions as of this album's debut came from 1967 recordings of "Lady" by Jack Jones and "The Lady Smiles" by Matt Monro.
Sinatra: Best of the Best is a 2011 double compilation album by American singer Frank Sinatra.
NAT: An Orchestral Portrait of Nat "King" Cole is an album by American composer and arranger Nelson Riddle of music associated with the singer and pianist Nat King Cole. The album was released a year after Cole's death in 1965; Riddle had previously arranged several of Cole's albums.
The Music from Oklahoma! was Nelson Riddle's first studio album in his own right, released in 1955, after successful collaborations with Nat King Cole and Frank Sinatra for Capitol Records.
Music of the Motion Picture “Can Can” was the Nelson Riddle Orchestra's eighth studio LP, released on Capitol records in 1960.
Dance to the Music of “Tenderloin” was the Nelson Riddle Orchestra's tenth studio LP, released on Capitol records in 1961, with songs from the musical “Tenderloin’’, by Sheldon Harnick and Jerry Bock.
Original Music from The Rogues is a soundtrack album to the 1964 NBC television comedy-drama series "The Rogues", composed and conducted by Nelson Riddle.
The Tender Touch is the second studio album by Nelson Riddle, released in 1956.
Phil Silvers and Swinging Brass is a studio album of bugle calls arranged by Nelson Riddle, released in 1956.
Hey...Let Yourself Go! was Nelson Riddle’s third studio album, released in April 1957.
C’mon. .. Get Happy! was Nelson Riddle’s fourth studio album, released in October 1957.
Sea of Dreams was Nelson Riddle’s fifth studio album, released in March 1958.
The Bright and the Beautiful was Nelson Riddle’s first album for Liberty Records, released in April 1967.
The Riddle of Today was Nelson Riddle's second, and last, album for Liberty Records, released in October 1967.
Original Music from The Untouchables is a soundtrack album to the 1959 ABC television crime drama series "The Untouchables", composed and conducted by Nelson Riddle.
The Best of Nelson Riddle is a compilation album of composer-arranger Nelson Riddle's hit singles and popular tracks from his LP albums, released in October 1963. Best of was issued under Capitol Records' "Star Line" banner, a series of LPs spotlighting artists' previous singles and LP releases. It was compiled after Riddle had completed fifteen studio albums for Capitol, and was his last release issued by the label.