Henri René and His Orchestra Riot In Rhythm [1959]

RCA Victor LSP 2002

Conductor and arranger Henri René was born and raised in Germany, where he studied at Berlin's Royal Academy of Music; he emigrated to the U.S. during the mid-1920s, appearing with a series of orchestras before returning to Berlin a few years later to serve as an arranger with a German record label. René came back to the States in 1936 to accept the position of musical director with RCA-Victor's international arm; in 1941, he also formed his own orchestra. After serving with the Allied forces in World War II, he returned to RCA to arrange and conduct a variety of classical recordings; during the mid-1950s, he began issuing a series of LPs -- Music for Bachelors, Music for the Weaker Sex, Compulsion to Swing and Riot in Rhythm among them -- that were forerunners of the space-age pop aesthetic. As a producer, René also helmed a number of releases for RCA's "Stereo Action" series, as well as Harry Belafonte's 1956 landmark LP Calypso and a handful of Eartha Kitt efforts; he left the label in 1959, working freelance for the remainder of his career. 

Tracklist:
01 Whispering
02 Oh, Lady Be Good
03 Hansel and Pretzel
04 When Day Is Done
05 Time On My Hands
06 Chinatown, My Chinatown
07 The Swinging Stars and Stripes
08 Mangos
09 You're Driving Me Crazy
10 Blah-Blah-Blah - Dick Williams, Vocal
 11 Without A Song
12 Every Little Movement