| Hey...Let Yourself Go! | |
| Type: | album |
| Artist: | Nelson Riddle |
| Cover: | File:Nelson_Riddle_-_Let_Yourself_Go.jpg |
| Released: | 1957 |
| Recorded: | 1957 |
| Studio: | Capitol Records |
| Genre: | Traditional pop |
| Length: | 34:56 |
| Label: | Capitol T-814 |
| Chronology: | Nelson Riddle |
| Prev Title: | The Tender Touch |
| Prev Year: | 1956 |
| Next Title: | C'mon...Get Happy! |
| Next Year: | 1957 |
Hey...Let Yourself Go! was Nelson Riddle’s third studio album, released in April 1957.[1]
Riddle's first album consisted of a set of pop arrangements of Broadway tunes The Music from Oklahoma!, in 1955, followed by a collection of lush love songs The Tender Touch released a year later.
For Hey...Let Yourself Go!, Riddle assembled a dozen “carefree, up-tempo rhythms,” as the liner notes characterized them. "The twelve tunes presented here are an irresistible invitation to let yourself go and get on with the dance ... "[2]
Hey...Let Yourself Go! was well received. Cash Box characterized Riddle's work as "12 sparkling and inventive arrangements in dance tempo", and dubbed the album a "happy, rhythmic offering".[3] The album was said to have captured Riddle's style "at its most frothy and effervescent", with "upbeat numbers that swing, but with an easygoing grace".[4]
It reached number 20 on the Billboard chart.[5]
At year's end, Hey...Let Yourself Go! was ranked the ninth most popular album of the year in the Billboard annual disk jockey poll.[6]