Music of the Motion Picture "Can Can"
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| Music of the Motion Picture “Can Can” | ||||
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| Released | 1960 | |||
| Recorded | 1960 | |||
| Studio | Capitol Records | |||
| Genre | Show tunes, traditional pop | |||
| Length | 31:01 | |||
| Label | Capitol ST-1365 | |||
| Producer | Lee Gillette | |||
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Music of the Motion Picture “Can Can” was the Nelson Riddle Orchestra's eighth studio LP, released on Capitol records in 1960.
Nelson Riddle arranged and conducted the Cole Porter music for the 1960 motion picture Can-Can. After completing work on the film, he arranged a dozen Porter melodies as dance music. The resulting album was released in the spring of 1960, ahead of Capitol's release of the soundtrack album.[1]
The liner notes observe that Riddle “arranged and conducted the music for the soundtrack. In this album, Mr. Riddle has turned once more to the music of ‘Can-Can’ and arranged it all over again – this time for dancers, and for the many listeners who have enjoyed his other Capitol albums done in the same bright-sounding, smoothly swinging manner.”[2]