Nelson Riddle: C/D

lol this thread died so fast!

Currently loving Sea of Dreams, looking for any others that I need to hear

Somehow he just got a Grammy nomination for arranging a song sung by Seth Macfarlane? Even though he's been dead for 40 years??

Best Arrangement, Instruments and Vocals
An Arranger's Award. (Artist names appear in parentheses.) Singles or Tracks only.

Big Fish
Erin Bentlage, Sara Gazarek, Johnaye Kendrick, Nate Smith & Amanda Taylor, arrangers (Nate Smith Featuring säje)

How Did She Look?
Nelson Riddle, arranger (Seth MacFarlane)

Keep An Eye On Summer
Jacob Collier, arranger (Jacob Collier)

Something In The Water (Acoustic-Ish)
Clyde Lawrence, Gracie Lawrence & Linus Lawrence, arrangers (Lawrence)

What A Wonderful World
Cody Fry, arranger (Cody Fry)

Seth MacFarlane is really tight with the Sinatra estate, which is digitizing its records, and they found a pretty vast file of submitted but unused vintage written arrangements from Riddle & Sinatra's other arrangers that they offered to MacFarlane, who has a whole sideline as a crooner of standards(!), to record.

That is very cool (except that it’s Seth MacFarlane)

Huh! More interesting than I realized.

(I did know about MacFarlane's sideline, but not the rest.)

been a fan since childhood of what's new, the first of the several albums linda ronstadt recorded with him in the 80s. know it by heart, thanks to family night drives across mississippi as a young'un. still pull it out once a year or so.