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Hey...Let Yourself Go!

Hey...Let Yourself Go!
Studio album by
Nelson Riddle
Released1957
Recorded1957
StudioCapitol Records
GenreTraditional pop
Length34:56
LabelCapitol T-814
Nelson Riddle chronology
The Tender Touch
(1956) 		Hey...Let Yourself Go!
(1957) 		C'mon...Get Happy!
(1957)

Hey...Let Yourself Go! was Nelson Riddle’s third studio album, released in April 1957.[1]

Origin

Riddle's first album consisted of a set of pop arrangements of Broadway tunes The Music from Oklahoma!, in 1955, followed by a collection of lush love songs The Tender Touch released a year later.

For Hey...Let Yourself Go!, Riddle assembled a dozen “carefree, up-tempo rhythms,” as the liner notes characterized them. "The twelve tunes presented here are an irresistible invitation to let yourself go and get on with the dance ... "[2]

Reception

Hey...Let Yourself Go! was well received. Cash Box characterized Riddle's work as "12 sparkling and inventive arrangements in dance tempo", and dubbed the album a "happy, rhythmic offering".[3] The album was said to have captured Riddle's style "at its most frothy and effervescent", with "upbeat numbers that swing, but with an easygoing grace".[4]

It reached number 20 on the Billboard chart.[5]

At year's end, Hey...Let Yourself Go! was ranked the ninth most popular album of the year in the Billboard annual disk jockey poll.[6]

Track listing

Side 1

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Let's Face the Music and Dance"Irving Berlin2:29
2."You Are My Lucky Star"Arthur Freed, Nacio Herb Brown2:37
3."You and the Night and the Music"Arthur Schwartz, Howard Dietz3:35
4."Younger Than Springtime"Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II3:27
5."You Leave Me Breathless"F. Hollander, Ralph Freed2:40
6."You're An Old Smoothie"Buddy DeSylva, Lew Brown, Richard A. Whiting2:21

Side 2

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Then I'll Be Happy"Cliff Friend, Brown, Sidney Clare2:28
2."I Get Along Without You Very Well"Hoagy Carmichael3:12
3."I Can't Escape From You"Leo Robin, Whiting3:02
4."Have You Got Any Castles, Baby?"Johnny Mercer, Whiting1:49
5."Darn That Dream"Eddie DeLange, James Van Heusen3:38
6."Let Yourself Go"Berlin3:10

References

  1. ^ "April Album Releases". The Cash Box. New York NY. April 13, 1957. p. 36.
  2. ^ Hey . . . Let Yourself Go! (LP record). Nelson Riddle. Hollywood, California: Capitol Records. 1957.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
  3. ^ "Album Reviews". The Cash Box. New York NY. April 20, 1957. p. 24.
  4. ^ Mark Deming. "Hey…Let Yourself Go!". AllMusic.com. Retrieved March 1, 2023.
  5. ^ Levinson, Peter J. (2001). September in the Rain; The Life of Nelson Riddle. Billboard Books. p. 181. ISBN 0-8230-7672-5.
  6. ^ "The Billboard Tenth Annual Disk Jockey Poll". Billboard. New York NY. November 11, 1957. p. 32.
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