THEME FROM THE PROUD ONES NELSON RIDDLE RE MASTERED

AUG. 4, 1956 - LIONEL NEWMAN, composer

[sandradurham]

Great video, it looks as if it was a good western, love the music too. Thanks for sharing. 👍👍🎹🎶🎵🎼

[jc-lc]

I like this. It was some very nice music played in old westerns. Thankyou Felix🙂

[juryniner]

..wow...very nice..thank you..first time heard really....

[WoodlandPoetry]

I never associated Nelson Riddle with Westerns. But I will now! Beautiful theme. Thank you.

[franciscobraga]

Lionel Newman (January 4, 1916 – February 3, 1989) was an American conductor, pianist, and film and television composer. He won the Academy Award for Best Score of a Musical Picture for Hello Dolly! with Lennie Hayton in 1969. He is the brother of Alfred Newman and Emil Newman, uncle of composers Randy Newman, David Newman, Thomas Newman, Maria Newman, and grandfather of Joey Newman. His 11 nominations contribute to the Newmans being the most nominated Academy Award extended family, with a collective 92 nominations in various music categories.

Nelson Riddle was an American arranger, composer, bandleader and orchestrator whose career stretched from the late 1940s to the mid-1980s. He worked with many world-famous 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.

The Proud Ones is a 1956 DeLuxe Color western CinemaScope film directed by Robert D. Webb and starring Robert Ryan and Virginia Mayo. The "Theme from the Proud Ones" written by Lionel Newman, recorded by Nelson Riddle, reached number 39 on the US charts on August 4, 1956.