"Lisbon Antigua" { US # 1 - February 1956 }
"Port Au Prince" { US # 20 - April 1956 }
"Theme From The Proud Ones" { US # 39 - July 1956 }
"Route 66 Theme" { US # 30 - June 1962 - AC # 9, 1962 }
"Naked City Theme" { US # 130 - October 1962 }
"What's New" (Featuring Linda Ronstadt) US # 53 - December 1983 - AC # 5, 1983
"I've Got A Crush On You" (Featuring Linda Ronstadt) AC # 7, 1984
Sources: Billboard Top Pop Singles, Billboard Adult Contemporary Billboard Bubbling Under Singles Books
1955 The Music from "Oklahoma!"
1956 Lisbon Antigua (EP)
1956 The Tender Touch
1957 Hey... Let Yourself Go
1958 C'mon... Get Happy
1958 Sea of Dreams
1958 Witchcraft!
1959 The Joy of Living
1959 Sing a Song with Riddle
1959 Original Music from the TV Show "The Untouchables"
1960 Music of the Motion Picture Can Can
1961 Magic Moments from "The Gay Life"
1961 Love Tide
1962 Route 66 Theme and Other Great TV Hits
1962 Love is a Game of Poker
1962 The Best of Nelson Riddle
1962 More Hit TV Themes
1964 White on White, Shangri-La, Charade & Other Hits of 1964
1965 Interprets Great Music, Great Films, Great Sounds
1966 Nat: An Orchestral Portrait of Nat "King" Cole
1967 Music for Wives and Lovers
1967 The Bright and the Beautiful
1968 The Riddle of Today
1967 For Swinging Lovers
1968 The Contemporary Sound of Nelson Riddle
1969 British Columbia Suite
1970 Nelson Riddle Conducts the 101 Strings
1970 Avon Wishes You a Happy Holiday and a Joyous New Year
1970 The Look of Love
1971 Communication
1973 Changing Colors
1973 Vive LeGrand!
2006 Hey Diddle Riddle (recorded 1959)
"What Is This Thing Called Love" (for Keely Smith)
"I've Got You Under My Skin" (for Frank Sinatra)
"One For My Baby (And One More For The Road)" (for Frank Sinatra)
"The Lady Is a Tramp" (for Frank Sinatra)
"Come Rain or Come Shine" (for Judy Garland)
"Zing! Went the Strings of My Heart" (for Judy Garland)
"Mona Lisa" (for Nat King Cole)
"Night and Day" (for Frank Sinatra)
"On The Street Where You Live" (for Dean Martin)
"Unforgettable" (for Nat King Cole)
"What's New" (for Linda Ronstadt)
"Witchcraft" (for Frank Sinatra)
1953 Songs for Young Lovers
1954 Swing Easy!
1955 In the Wee Small Hours
1956 Songs for Swingin' Lovers
1957 Close to You
1957 A Swingin' Affair!
1958 Frank Sinatra Sings for Only the Lonely
1960 Nice 'n' Easy
1961 Sinatra's Swingin' Session!!!
1963 The Concert Sinatra
1963 Sinatra's Sinatra
1963 Reprise Musical Repertory Theatre
1964 Sinatra Sings Days of Wine and Roses, Moon River, and Other Academy Award Winners
1964 Softly, As I Leave You
1964 America, I Hear You Singing
1964 Robin and the 7 Hoods (soundtrack)
1964 12 Songs of Christmas
1965 My Kind of Broadway
1965 Sinatra '65: The Singer Today
1966 Moonlight Sinatra
1966 Strangers in the Night
1968 The Sinatra Family Wish You a Merry Christmas
1977 Unfinished album ("Nancy," "Emily," "Linda," "Sweet Lorraine," "Barbara")
1979 Trilogy: Past Present Future ("Something")
1981 She Shot Me Down ("The Gal that Got Away"/"It Never Entered My Mind")
1961 "Pocketful of Miracles"/"Name It and It's Yours"
1962 "The Look of Love"/"I Left My Heart in San Francisco"
1963 "California"/"America the Beautiful"
1963 "You Brought a New Kind of Love to Me"
1965 "Moment to Moment"
1968 "Blue Lace"/"Star!"
1976 "I Love My Wife"/"Evergreen" [unreleased]
1980 "Theme From 'New York, New York' - Reprise 7-49233
1959 Ella Fitzgerald Sings the George and Ira Gershwin Songbook
1962 Ella Swings Gently with Nelson
1962 Ella Swings Brightly with Nelson
1962 Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Jerome Kern Songbook
1964 Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Johnny Mercer Songbook
1972 Ella Loves Cole (re-released in 1978 as Dream Dancing with two new tracks)
1982 The Best Is Yet to Come
(All Capitol albums)
1953: Nat King Cole Sings for Two In Love
1954: Unforgettable
1955: The Piano Style of Nat King Cole
1956: Ballads of the Day
1958: St. Louis Blues
1958: Cole Español
1959: To Whom It May Concern
1960: Wild Is Love
2001: Night Lights — posthumous release for both Cole and Riddle; recorded in 1955/56
Anna Maria Alberghetti
Warm and Willing (Capitol, 1960)
Shirley Bassey
Let's Face the Music (EMI, 1962)
Rosemary Clooney
Rosie Solves the Swingin' Riddle! (RCA, 1960)
Love (Reprise, 1963)
Bing Crosby
Return to Paradise Islands (Reprise, 1964)
Sammy Davis, Jr.
That's Entertainment! (MGM, 1974)
Buddy DeFranco
Plays Nelson Riddle's Cross Country Suite (Dot, 1958)
Eddie Fisher
Games that Lovers Play (RCA, 1966)
Judy Garland
Judy (Capitol, 1956)
Judy in Love (Capitol, 1958)
Antonio Carlos Jobim
The Wonderful World of Antonio Carlos Jobim (Warner Bros. Records, 1965)
Jack Jones
There's Love And There's Love And There's Love (Kapp Records, 1965)
Kiri Te Kanawa
Blue Skies (Decca, 1985)
Steve Lawrence
Portrait of Steve (MGM, 1972)
Peggy Lee
The Man I Love (Capitol, 1957) (conducted by Frank Sinatra)
Jump for Joy (Capitol, 1958)
Dean Martin
This Time I'm Swingin' (Capitol, 1960)
Cha Cha de Amor (Capitol, 1962)
Johnny Mathis
I'll Buy You A Star (Columbia, 1962)
Live it Up (Columbia, 1963)
Yehudi Menuhin & Stéphane Grappelli
Top Hat (EMI, 1981)
Oscar Peterson
Oscar Peterson and Nelson Riddle (Verve, 1964)
Sue Raney
When Your Lover Has Gone (Capitol, 1959)
Mavis Rivers
Take a Number (Capitol, 1959)
Linda Ronstadt
What's New? (Asylum, 1983)
Lush Life (Asylum, 1984)
For Sentimental Reasons (Asylum, 1986)
Tommy Sands
When I'm Thinking of You (Capitol, 1959)
Dream with Me (Capitol, 1960)
Dinah Shore
Dinah, Yes Indeed! (Capitol, 1959)
Phil Silvers
Phil Silvers and Swinging Brass (Columbia, 1956)
Frank Sinatra, Jr.
Spice (Daybreak Records, 1971)
His Way! (Daybreak Records, 1972)
Kate Smith
The Best of Kate Smith (RCA Records, 1963-1967)
Keely Smith
I Wish You Love (Capitol, 1958)
Swingin' Pretty (Capitol, 1959)
Little Girl Blue/Little Girl New (Reprise, 1962)
Barbra Streisand
On a Clear Day You Can See Forever (soundtrack) (Columbia Records, 1970)
Pinky Tomlin
Country Boy (Arvee Records, 1963)
Ed Townsend
New in Town (Capitol, 1959)
Glad to Be Here (Capitol, 1959)
Danny Williams
Swinging For You (HMV, 1962)
The Rosemary Clooney Show (1956)
A Man and His Music (1965/1966/1967 award winning television-specials for Frank Sinatra)
The Julie Andrews Hour (1973)
The Carpenters: Music, Music, Music (1980)
Pal Joey (1957, starring Frank Sinatra)
Till There Was You (from The Music Man in 1957)
Can-Can (1960)
Robin and the 7 Hoods (1964)
Paint Your Wagon (1969)
On a Clear Day You Can See Forever (1970)
Film and television work
Lisbon (1956) (theme song topped the Billboard Top 100)
Li'l Abner (1959)
The Untouchables
Route 66 (1960) (theme song earned Riddle a Top 40 single in 1962)
Naked City (1960)
Ocean's Eleven (1960)
Lolita (1962)
4 for Texas (1963)
A Rage to Live (1965)
Batman (1966-68 TV series) (although Neal Hefti wrote the "Batman Theme" song, Riddle and Billy May scored the actual episodes)
Batman
El Dorado (1966)
How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (1967)
This Is Your Life (1971)
Emergency! (1972)
The Great Gatsby (which repopularized Irving Berlin's "What'll I Do" and earned Riddle the Academy Award for Best Original Song Score and Adaptation at the 47th Academy Awards)
CHiPs (1977) some first season episodes
Erich Kunzel, Route 66 - That Nelson Riddle Sound (Telarc Records, 2000)
