September In The Rain is the first biography of the most highly respected arranger in the history of American popular music. This book is based on more than 200 interviews with Riddle's closest friends, family and colleagues. Levinson gives readers an inside look at Riddle's inspirations, career and creative genius. He discusses every period of the arranger's life, including his troubled childhood in New Jersey, his years with Tommy Dorsey's orchestra, his successful collaborations with Cole and Sinatra, the difficult period when he was reducd to writing scores for second-rate movies, and his 1980s comeback as the arranger of Linda Ronstadt's What's New and Lush Life albums.

CONTENTS:
The Jersey Years; The Apprenticeship Continues; The Sentimental Gentleman of Swing; Hollywood Calling; Nat King Cole Was A Merry Old Soul; "The Voice" Becomes A Cello; A Flourishing Career; The Difficult Years; Linda Ronstadt & the Last Hurrah; The Final Chorus.

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