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The fifth of eleven tracks on the 1986 CD "For Sentimental Reasons, with Nelson Riddle and his Orchestra".
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"My Funny Valentine" is a show tune from the 1937 Rodgers and Hart coming of age musical Babes in Arms in which it was introduced by teenaged star Mitzi Green.
The song became a popular jazz standard, appearing on over 1300 albums performed by over 600 artists. One of them was Chet Baker, for whom it became a signature song.
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This is the final recording to feature the mastery of Nelson Riddle - the recordings were made from early to late 1985.
Nelson Riddle died in October of that year, and for three of the tracks, the orchestra was conducted by Terry Woodson, to arrangements previously created by Riddle.
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Linda Maria Ronstadt (born July 15, 1946) is an American singer who has performed and recorded in diverse genres including country, rock, pop, light opera, the Great American Songbook, and Latin music.
Establishing her professional career in the mid-1960s at the forefront of California's emerging folk rock and country rock movements, Ronstadt joined forces with Bobby Kimmel and Kenny Edwards and became the lead singer of a folk-rock trio, the Stone Poneys.
Later, as a solo artist, she released Hand Sown ... Home Grown in 1969, which has been described as the first alternative country record by a female recording artist.
Much, much more about Linda may be found here:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linda_Ronstadt
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Nelson Smock Riddle Jr. (June 1, 1921 – October 6, 1985) was an American arranger, composer, bandleader and orchestrator whose career stretched from the late 1940s to the mid-1980s. He worked with many vocalists at Capitol Records, including Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, Nat King Cole, Judy Garland, Dean Martin, Peggy Lee, Johnny Mathis, Rosemary Clooney and Keely Smith. He scored and arranged music for many films and television shows, earning an Academy Award and three Grammy Awards. He found commercial and critical success with a new generation in the 1980s, in a trio of Platinum albums with Linda Ronstadt.
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This track was recorded directly to computer from the CD and processed using Audacity software.
The video was created in Movie Maker, where the images and the music track were assembled into the final product.
Creating just one video such as this from a single track on a CD takes around fifteen minutes from start to finish, therefore an eighteen-track CD takes more than three hours to process.
The fifth of eleven tracks on the 1986 CD "For Sentimental Reasons, with Nelson Riddle and his Orchestra".
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"My Funny Valentine" is a show tune from the 1937 Rodgers and Hart coming of age musical Babes in Arms in which it was introduced by teenaged star Mitzi Green.
The song became a popular jazz standard, appearing on over 1300 albums performed by over 600 artists. One of them was Chet Baker, for whom it became a signature song.
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This is the final recording to feature the mastery of Nelson Riddle - the recordings were made from early to late 1985.
Nelson Riddle died in October of that year, and for three of the tracks, the orchestra was conducted by Terry Woodson, to arrangements previously created by Riddle.
____________________________________
Linda Maria Ronstadt (born July 15, 1946) is an American singer who has performed and recorded in diverse genres including country, rock, pop, light opera, the Great American Songbook, and Latin music.
Establishing her professional career in the mid-1960s at the forefront of California's emerging folk rock and country rock movements, Ronstadt joined forces with Bobby Kimmel and Kenny Edwards and became the lead singer of a folk-rock trio, the Stone Poneys.
Later, as a solo artist, she released Hand Sown ... Home Grown in 1969, which has been described as the first alternative country record by a female recording artist.
Much, much more about Linda may be found here:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linda_Ronstadt
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Nelson Smock Riddle Jr. (June 1, 1921 – October 6, 1985) was an American arranger, composer, bandleader and orchestrator whose career stretched from the late 1940s to the mid-1980s. He worked with many vocalists at Capitol Records, including Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, Nat King Cole, Judy Garland, Dean Martin, Peggy Lee, Johnny Mathis, Rosemary Clooney and Keely Smith. He scored and arranged music for many films and television shows, earning an Academy Award and three Grammy Awards. He found commercial and critical success with a new generation in the 1980s, in a trio of Platinum albums with Linda Ronstadt.
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This track was recorded directly to computer from the CD and processed using Audacity software.
The video was created in Movie Maker, where the images and the music track were assembled into the final product.
Creating just one video such as this from a single track on a CD takes around fifteen minutes from start to finish, therefore an eighteen-track CD takes more than three hours to process.
