Rosie Solves the Swingin' Riddle!

by Rosemary Clooney

Overview

Although Rosemary Clooney worked with Nelson Riddle nearly every week for her '50s radio show, they were together for full LPs much less often -- only this record from 1961 and a 1963 follow-up titled Love. The pair made the most of their first collaboration, devising a program of 12 standards that combined Riddle's pugnacious yet intricate arrangements with Clooney's warm, grand vocals to create a swing record with feeling. Riddle's orchestra roars through his breakneck arrangements for "April in Paris" and "Cabin in the Sky," but Clooney weathers the storm with an elegance that borders on the untroubled. Vocalist fits together with orchestra like hand in glove, since nearly all of the musicians were veterans of her show. [A Bluebird reissue from 2004 added two bonus tracks, "Without Love" and "The Wonderful Season of Love" (the latter was the theme from Return to Peyton Place, directed by her husband, Jose Ferrer).] ~ John Bush

Product Details

Release Date:	06/08/2004
Label:	Bluebird Rca / Bluebird
UPC:	0828766009927
Rank:	151114

Tracks

1. Get Me to the Church On Time
2. Angry
3. I Get Along Without You Very Well
4. How Am I to Know?
5. You Took Advantage of Me
6. April in Paris
7. I Ain't Got Nobody (And Nobody Cares for Me)
8. Some of These Days
9. By Myself
10. Shine on Harvest Moon
11. Cabin in the Sky
12. Limehouse Blues
13. Without Love
14. The Wonderful Season of Love (Theme from Return to Peyton Place)

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Rosemary Clooney   Primary Artist,Vocals
Nelson Riddle   Guest Artist,Conductor
James Arkatov   Cello
Kathyrine Julye   Harp
Richard L. Noel   Trombone
Barbara Simons   Viola
Dan Lube   Violin
Joe Koch   Saxophone
Alvin Stoller   Drums
Edgar Lustgarten   Cello
Victor Arno   Violin
Alvin Dinkin   Viola
Joe Comfort   Bass
Don Fagerquist   Trumpet
Bob Bain   Guitar
Marshall Sosson   Violin
Tommy Pederson   Trombone
Gerald Vinci   Violin
Abe Most   Saxophone
Al Hendrickson   Guitar
Buddy Collette   Saxophone
James Getzoff   Violin
Harry Bluestone   Violin
Wilbur Schwartz   Saxophone
Eleanor Slatkin   Cello
Plas Johnson   Saxophone
George Roberts   Trombone
Harry Klee   Saxophone
Joseph Livoti   Violin
Frank Flynn   Drums
George Neikrug   Cello
Alex Beller   Violin
Paul Robyn   Viola
Murray Kellner   Violin
Harold Dicterow   Violin
Jacques Gasselin   Violin
Erno Neufeld   Violin
Victor Bay   Violin
Carroll Lewis   Trumpet

Technical Credits

Henry Brunies   Composer
John Latouche   Composer
Spencer Williams   Composer
Frederick Loewe   Composer
Shelton Brooks   Composer
Jack Norworth   Composer
Vernon Duke   Composer
Cole Porter   Composer
Jack King   Composer
Alan Jay Lerner   Composer
Barry Feldman   Reissue Supervisor
Franz Waxman   Composer
Douglas Furber   Composer
Lorenz Hart   Composer
Jordi Pujol   Producer
Howard Dietz   Composer
Nelson Riddle   Liner Notes,Orchestral Arrangements
Nora Bayes   Composer
Arthur Schwartz   Composer
Dave Peyton   Composer
Hoagy Carmichael   Composer
Paul Francis Webster   Composer
E.Y. "Yip" Harburg   Composer
Richard Rodgers   Composer
Philip Braham   Composer
Jules Cassard   Composer
Dorothy Parker   Composer
Roger Graham   Composer
Dudley Mecum   Composer