Nelson Riddle and His Orchestra - Shangri La

" Jazz will endure just as long as people hear it through their feet instead of their brains."
--- Sousa, John Philip

"Shangri-La" is a popular song written by bandleader Matty Malneck and Robert Maxwell in 1946. The term comes from "Shangri-La," the hidden valley of delight in James Hilton's 1933 novel "Lost Horizon." The term "Shangri-La," especially in the 1930s and 1940s, was slang for heaven or paradise, and the song is (what did you expect ;-) about "the joy of being in love"
Composer Maxwell's instrumental version charted in 1964. Other popular versions (with lyrics) were recorded by The Four Coins in 1957 and by The Lettermen in 1969
Jackie Gleason used "Shangri-La" on his 1950s-60s TV variety show as theme music for his popular character Reginald van Gleason III.
The song was also used as the opening and closing theme of Radio City Playhouse, a radio anthology series that aired in the late 1940s.
Here Nelson Riddle brings us a softly swinging version of the song, with an "explosive" grand finale. Riddle, who arranged music for eg Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin, was one of the best arrangers in the American orchestral music 'world' and together with Percy Faith, he was responsable for the creation of a smooth, easy but always swinging big band sound that conquered not only the American continent, but that became popular in many parts of the world.
From the 1964 Album "White on White and Other Hits of 1964" here's Nelson Riddle and His Orchestra with " Shangri-La ". Hope this music will carry you (for a short time...) to "Cloud Nine" !

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