, BUDDY NOT NELSON

The skill of the arrangers of the Great American Songbook generally goes unacknowledged. It was therefore pleasing that Michael Henderson in his essay “Sing it again, Frank” (July/August) mentioned the arranger Nelson Riddle when praising Ella Fitzgerald’s recording of the Rogers and Hart song “It Never Entered My Mind”. It is indeed a lovely recording.

However, the arranger on that occasion was Buddy Bregman, not Nelson Riddle.

Nigel Allport

horsham, west sussex