Sea of Dreams / Love Tide [Import]

Nelson Riddle | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (March 22, 2004)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: EMI Europe Generic
• ASIN: B0001CNP9A
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #12,774 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
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  • #63 in Music > Imports > Pop
  • #100 in Music > Pop > Easy Listening > Orchestral Pop

Track Listings

1. Out Of The Night

2. My Isle Of Golden Dreams

3. Tangi Tahiti

4. Dream

5. Theres No You

6. Drifting And Dreaming

7. Easter Isle

8. Lets Fall In Love

9. Polka Dots And Moonbeams

10. Put Your Dreams Away (For Another Day)

11. Autumm Leaves

12. Sea Of Dreams

13. Bali Hai

14. Ill Wind

15. East Of The Sun

16. Till The End Of Time

17. Caravan

18. Sweet Leilani

19. Take Me In Your Arms

20. Solitude

See all 24 tracks on this disc

Editorial Reviews

Digitally Remastered Edition of Two Albums on a Single Disc from One of the Most Respected Arrangers and Conductors Every. Riddle Became a Star in his Own Right with his Instrumental Albums in the 1950's and These Two Reflect his Love of the Beach and the Sea, as They were Conceived on the Beach Where He Lived.

Customer Reviews

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30 of 30 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Riddle in a Mellow Mood, April 16, 2004

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This review is from: Sea of Dreams / Love Tide (Audio CD)

This double album finds Nelson Riddle in a mellow mood, aided by one of the lushest string sections he ever used on record. "Sea of Dreams" is a tranquil ballad album that actually jettisons the winds completely and simply lets those lush strings have their say (with only the occasional celesta obbligato to aid the arrangements along). As a result, songs like even the normally bouncy "Let's Fall in Love" slow down to a state of quiet reverie. "Love Tide" has a slightly jazzier feel to it, with more of Riddle's trademark gentle swing infusing the music. (The use of a small rhythem section behind the strings helps here.) Riddle dabbles around in instrumental exotica ("Bali Ha'i" and "Santana," among others) as well as jazz staples like "Caravan" and "Solitude." Both albums are among the most sheerly gorgeous of all Riddle's orchestral arrangements, and deserve to be played over and over again

15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A sea dream, June 27, 2005

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Alain Didier (Atlanta, GA USA) - See all my reviews
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tone poem in the same spirit as Martin Denny's _Enchanted Sea_ and Les Baxter's _Jewels of the Sea_, but even more relaxing than those great records. This will transport you to a late afternoon at a quiet beach somewhere.. circa 1956... Look at the album cover; in this case it's an accurate representation of the music inside. Slip inside...

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Nels at Center Stage, September 18, 2007

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C. C. Black (Princeton, NJ USA) - See all my reviews
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The great arrangers of the 1950s suffered the same injustice that befalls composers of music for motion pictures: If people start paying attention to them instead of the star or movie they are hired to support, then they've failed. Nobody ever sang America's songbook like Sinatra or Clooney, Ella or Nat. And yet, if they hadn't been backed by such talents as Nelson Riddle, Billy May, or Robert Farnon, even the stars would have sounded as though they were crooning in the kitchen.

Riddle was among the greatest of the great arrangers, and it's a joy to experience his group of superlative session musicians in the spotlight. This disc offers a pair of some of Riddle's loveliest and most atmospheric covers on LP. Debussy and Ravel would have understood, and enjoyed.