Kritzerland Solves The Swingin' Riddle with Nelson's "Paris When It Sizzles"

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Kritzerland is taking listeners to the City of Light with a new 2-CD soundtrack release composed by the legendary Nelson Riddle. The label is accepting pre-orders now for the world premiere complete release of Riddle's score to Paris When It Sizzles, the 1964 Paramount romantic comedy starring Audrey Hepburn, William Holden, Tony Curtis and Noel Coward.

A send-up of moviemaking with a glamorous backdrop, Paris starred Holden as a playboy screenwriter and his real-life old flame Hepburn as his secretary and romantic interest. (The star actress shot the film back-to-back with Charade, with which it shared some Parisian locations.) Despite a strong creative team including director Richard Quine (Bell, Book and Candle, How to Murder Your Wife) and screenwriter George Axelrod (The Seven Year Itch, The Manchurian Candidate), Paris failed to impress critics at the time, but today it can be recognized as a frothy, delectable delight - featuring chemistry between its two stars, delicious supporting performances from Curtis and Coward, and plenty of smart Hollywood in-jokes.

Nelson Riddle was more than up to the task of scoring the film. The renowned composer-arranger got the opportunity to provide both "real-life" romantic themes as well as pop-flecked source cues and music for the film-within-a-film, The Girl Who Stole the Eiffel Tower. This Kritzerland release features, for the first time ever, Riddle's complete, original score on CD 1 (including a Fred Astaire vocal on the Spence/Bergman tune "That Face"), all newly restored by Chris Malone from the elements in the Paramount Pictures vaults. CD 2 offers an array of alternates and bonus tracks, followed by the original Reprise Records LP soundtrack presentation. Both the complete score and the album presentation are in stereo.

This must-have for any fan of the sizzling, swinging stylings of Nelson Riddle (and who isn't?) is available now for pre-order from Kritzerland. A limited edition of 1,000 units, it's due to ship by the first week of December, but pre-orders from the label typically arrive an average of four weeks early. You can pre-order and peruse the track listing below!

Nelson Riddle, Paris When It Sizzles: Music from the Motion Picture (Kritzerland KR 20031-3, 2016)

CD 1: The Complete Score

Prologue
Main Title (short version)
Woman in Black/Marlene à la Mode
Meyerheim Main Title
Sizzling Waltz No. 1
Sizzling Waltz No. 2/They Danced - Flip/Maurice Splits
Enter the Mysterious Stranger/Amusing Musette
Tango No. 1
Square Chase
Flip for Rick/Amusing Musette
The Dissolve/Bois Bounce/Saccharine Strings/Flip to Typewriter
Brandy Glow
Gabrielle Flips to Fancy/The Second Waltz/Dracula/Western Chase/Staggered
Goodnight Gabrielle
That Face (vocal by Fred Astaire)
Back to the Bois/Valse de Paree
Lipstick Tango
Sting for Guitar/Who's Got the Napkin/To the Studio/To Fran Studio
Luncheon Music
The Office/ Chase Across the Lot/Idol Eyes/Bedroom Set
Tape Recorder to Order
Arab Agitato
Gaby Blues
Hot Love
Pull the Trigger/Parchesi
Bathtub Idea/French Bubble Bath/That Kiss/To the Party
Bastille Cha-Cha No. 1
Party Twist No. 1
Party Fox Trot
Airport Chase
Rick's Demise
Touch of Tenderness
Forgotten Cage/Clock Spin/Searching for Gabrielle
Bastille Cha-Cha No. 2
Party Twist No. 2
Big Waltz/Gabrielle/Happy Ending/Finale)

CD 2: Alternates and Bonus Tracks

Main Title (film version)
Main Title (early version)
Meyerheim Main Title (film version)
Square Chase (film version)
Flip Out of Square
The Second Waltz
Western Chase (without sweetener)
Stealing the Film (alternate)/French Bubble Bath (alternate)
To the Party
Le Marseillaise/Bastille Day March
March Alsacienne
Happy Ending/Finale (without sweetener)

THE ORIGINAL ALBUM PRESENTATION (originally released as Reprise LP RS-6113, 1964)

Main Title and Theme - Gabrielle
Gabrielle
Tango de Paris
French Bubble Bath
Saccharine Strings
Brandy Glow
Good Night Gabrielle
That Face
Valse de Paree
Gaby Blues
Bastille Cha Cha Cha
Touch of Tenderness
La Valse Grande/Happy Ending (End Title)

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JOE MARCHESE (Editor) joined The Second Disc shortly after its launch in early 2010, and has since penned daily news and reviews about classic music of all genres. In 2015, Joe formed the Second Disc Records label. Celebrating the great songwriters, producers and artists who created the sound of American popular song and beyond, Second Disc Records, in conjunction with labels including Real Gone Music and Cherry Red Records, has released newly-curated collections produced and annotated by Joe from iconic artists such as Dionne Warwick, Diana Ross and The Supremes, Smokey Robinson and The Miracles, The Spinners, Johnny Mathis, Bobby Darin, Meat Loaf, Laura Nyro, Melissa Manchester, Liza Minnelli, Darlene Love, Al Stewart, Michael Nesmith, and many others. Joe has contributed liner notes to roughly 200 reissues from a diverse array of artists, among them America, JD Souther, Nat "King" Cole, Paul Williams, Lesley Gore, Dusty Springfield, BJ Thomas, The 5th Dimension, Burt Bacharach, The Mamas and the Papas, Carpenters, Perry Como, Rod McKuen, Doris Day, Jackie DeShannon, Petula Clark, and Andy Williams, and has compiled releases for talents including Robert Goulet and Keith Allison of Paul Revere and the Raiders. Over the past two decades, Joe has also worked in a variety of capacities on and off Broadway as well as at some of the premier theatres in the U.S., including Lincoln Center Theater, George Street Playhouse, Paper Mill Playhouse, Long Wharf Theatre, and the York Theatre Company. He has felt privileged to work on productions alongside artists such as the late Jack Klugman, Eli Wallach, Arthur Laurents, Betty Comden and Adolph Green. In 2009, Joe began contributing theatre and music reviews to the print publication The Sondheim Review, and in 2012, he joined the staff of The Digital Bits as a regular contributor writing about film and television on DVD and Blu-ray. Joe currently resides in the suburbs of New York City.