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Oliver Nelson [US]

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Real name
Oliver Edward Nelson
Born
June 4, 1932
Died
October 28, 1975
Country
United States
IPI
00022182522 24 works
Affiliation
BMI
Comments
Jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, arranger and composer
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Originals

Title Performer Release date Covered by
i 1961 (2 artists)
i 1970 Pierre Swärd Hammond Jazz'n Soul Group ‎
i January 1965 (7 artists)
i September 1, 1961 (8 artists)
i Elegy for a Duck Oliver Nelson [US] 1966 Unverified
i Ho! Oliver Nelson [US] with Joe Newman 1962 Unverified
i September 1, 1961 (7 artists)
i 1962 (2 artists)
i 1962 Ron Aprea Sextet
i Mama Lou Oliver Nelson with Eric Dolphy 1961 Unverified
i March On, March On Oliver Nelson Sextet with Eric Dolphy & Richard Williams January 1961 Unverified
i August 1963 (7 artists)
i March 1965 (2 artists)
June 8, 1964 (4 artists)
i 1966 Tim Eyermann Quartet ‎
i 1970 Big Band Dorsten
i 1961 (8 artists)
i 1962 (4 artists)
i May 1962 (3 artists)
i September 1, 1961 (2 artists)
i January 1965 (5 artists)
i January 1961 The Sugar Hill Trio
i Three Seconds Oliver Nelson Sextet with Eric Dolphy & Richard Williams January 1961 Unverified
i August 1966 (2 artists)
i September 1, 1961 (7 artists)
June 8, 1964 (21 artists)

Covers by Oliver Nelson [US]

Title Performer Release date Originally by
i 1964 The Billy Taylor Trio
February 1967 Sam Cooke
i 1967 Ernest Hare
i August 1966 Louis Jordan and His Tympany Five
November 1961 Phil Regan
i October 1960 Frank Sinatra with Orchestra conducted by Nelson Riddle
i 1960 Vic Damone with Percy Faith
  November 1961 (unknown), Jerry Vale with Percy Faith & His Orch. REC,REL, Alfred Drake, Doretta Morrow, Richard Kiley & Henry Calvin PRF
January 1968 Herb Jeffries with Buddy Baker and His Orchestra
i 1960 Ronnie Deauville
i   1971 Yves Montand BRD, Cora Vaucaire - Au piano : M. Philippe-Gérard REL
i 1961 Bill Davis Trio
i May 1962 Nat King Cole - With Orchestra and Chorus conducted by Nelson Riddle
i August 1966 Oliver Nelson [US]
i May 1966 Sonny Rollins
August 1966 John Lee Hooker
  1965 Frank Sinatra REL, Jackie Gleason BRD
  November 1961 The Velvetones [US1] REL, The King Cole Trio REC
i 1971 Henry Mancini and His Orchestra with Chorus
i 1970 King Oliver's Jazz Band, Duke Ellington and His Orchestra
February 1967 Julie London
i August 1966 Burt Bacharach and His Orchestra & Chorus
i January 1968 Fisk University Jubilee Singers
i October 1960 Miles Davis with Sonny Rollins and Horace Silver, Percy Heath, Kenny Clarke
i 1970 Duke Ellington and His Orchestra
i   August 1966 Peggy Lee with Dave Barbour and His Orchestra REC, Frank Sinatra – Orchestra under the direction of Axel Stordahl REL
i 1962 Henry Mancini
i 1966 Gary McFarland and Co./Clark Terry
i 1966 The Statler Brothers
  January 1968 Connie Haines REC, Jean DuShon REL
i 1960 Pat Boone with Orchestra
February 1967 Orchester James Last, Eddie Fisher – Arranged and conducted by Nelson Riddle
i 1968 Hoagy Carmichael and His Orchestra
i August 1966 The Outsiders [US]
i   May 1966 John Payne BRD, Bing Crosby and Jimmy Dorsey and His Orchestra REC, Swing and Sway with Sammy Kaye - Vocal Refrain by Betty Barclay REL
i 1968 Little Anthony and The Imperials, Frankie Valli
i January 1965 Count Basie and His Orchestra - Vocal Chorus by James Rushing
i 1968 Nancy Wilson [US1]
i 1968 The Lemon Pipers
January 1967 Larry Clinton and His Orchestra - Vocal Refrain by Bea Wain
February 1967 Harry James and His Orchestra - Vocal Chorus by Helen Forrest
i 1964 Jimmy Smith [US]
July 1966 Muddy Waters and His Guitar
November 1961 Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra - Vocal Refrain by Jack Fulton
i 1971 João Gilberto
November 1961 Swing and Sway with Sammy Kaye - Vocal Refrain by Charles Wilson
January 1967 The Weavers
  1965 Bing Crosby and Patty Andrews with Vic Schoen and His Orchestra REC,REL, Isabel Bigley PRF
November 1961 Sunny Gale with Orchestra conducted by Ralph Burns
1965 Harold Arlen - Piano Accompaniment by Arthur Schutt
i 1962 (unknown)
December 1967 Cannonball Adderley with Ernie Andrews
i May 1962 Bing Crosby, Leonid Kinskey, Martha Raye, Bob Burns and Louis Prima with The Sons of the Pioneers
i 1967 Ethel Waters and Her Singing Orch. arranged and directed by Will Marion Cook
November 1961 Henry Busse and His Orchestra - Vocal Refrain by Richard Barry
i May 1962 Duke Ellington and His Famous Orchestra
i 1961 Duke Ellington and His Orchestra
1963 Duke Ellington and His Orchestra
  1963 Felicia Sanders PRF, Kaye Ballard REC,REL
  January 1968 Quincy Jones featuring Ray Charles BRD,REL
i 1968 Vi Redd
i January 1968 Vi Redd
  1963 Bob Allen and The Tommy Dorsey Orchestra BRD, Tommy Dorsey and His Orchestra - Vocal Refrain by Bonnie Lou Williams and The Sentimentalists REC
i Island Virgin Oliver Nelson [US] 1966 Unverified
  1965 Jo Stafford with Paul Weston and His Orchestra REC, Bing Crosby with John Scott Trotter and His Orchestra REL, Fred MacMurray & Dorothy Lamour BRD
January 1968 Shirley Ross
  1963 Doris Day - Orchestra under the direction of George Siravo REL, Doris Day and Nestor Amaral REC
November 1961 Betty Hutton with Joe Lilley and His Orchestra
i January 1968 Arthur Fields
i 1967 Arthur Fields
i 1962 (unknown)
i 1960 Red McKenzie & His Orchestra
January 1966 Mongo Santamaría
i August 1966 The Rolling Stones
i August 1966 Maurice Jarre
i 1968 The Monkees
January 1968 Lucien Farrar with Ray Martin and His Orchestra
i   1967 Pickens Sisters REC, Bing Crosby BRD
1974 Little Richard
1974 Buddy Holly
i 1962 Duke Ellington and His Famous Orchestra
i 1961 Boyd Raeburn and His Orchestra
i 1967 Jorge Ben e Os Copa 5
January 1968 Vikki Carr - Arranged & Conducted by Bob Florence
i 1974 Isaura Garcia
i   1967 Ethel Waters REC, Minto Cato PRF
i 1966 The Beatles
1963 Lionel Hampton & His Orchestra
i January 1968 Miles Davis
i 1960 Erroll Garner Trio
  1963 Audrey Hepburn BRD, Henry Mancini and His Orchestra and Chorus REC,REL
i   1971 Fairchild and Carroll and Their Orchestra REL, Mitzi Green PRF
  February 1967 Helen Jepson REL, Ruby Elzy PRF, Ruby Elzy under the direction of George Gershwin REC
i 1968 Gloria Grafton & Donald Novis
i May 1966 Frank Sinatra – Axel Stordahl and His Orchestra
i January 1968 Duke Ellington and His Famous Orchestra, Jimmy Forrest and All Star Combo
December 1967 Bobbie Gentry
i   May 1962 Jules Bledsoe PRF, "Kenn" Sisson and His Orchestra REC
i 1966 Earl Hines
i August 1966 The Clovers
i 1959 Johnny Hodges and Orchestra (An Ellington Unit)
  1963 Eddy Duchin and His Orchestra - Vocal Refrain by Lew Sherwood REC, Bing Crosby BRD
1963 Elizabeth Spencer
1965 João Gilberto, Sarah Vaughan
i 1970 The Harlem Footwarmers (Duke Ellington)
i 1971 Cootie Williams and His Orchestra
1965 Duke Ellington and His Famous Orchestra, The Coasters
i Sermonette Oliver meets Sharps & Flats 1971 Unverified
i March 1965 Ray Bryant
i 1968 Otis Redding
i 1967 Oliver Nelson with Eric Dolphy
i August 1963 The African Dance Band of the Cold Storage Commission of Southern Rhodesia
i August 1966 Neil Diamond
i   1962 Al Jolson REC,BRD
1963 Duke Ellington and His Orchestra, The Boswell Sisters
i 1968 Mike Sharpe
i 1967 Riz Ortolani
i September 1, 1961 Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis Big Band
1971 The Thelonious Monk Quintet
Covered by (3 artists)
i August 1966 Bert Kaempfert
i   1971 Helen Jepson REL, Abbie Mitchell PRF, Abbie Mitchell under the direction of George Gershwin REC
i August 1966 Grethe Ingmann
i   1962 Vaughn Monroe and His Orchestra REC, Bob Eberly, Helen O'Connell, and Jimmy Dorsey and His Orchestra BRD
i 1962 Nat "King" Cole
  February 1967 Jeanne Crain [dubbed by Louanne Hogan] & Dick Haymes BRD, Dick Haymes with Victor Young and His Orchestra REL
August 1966 Jimmy Clanton
1971 Pharoah Sanders
i 1960 Margaret Whiting
i   1968 Dusty Springfield REL, Stan Getz REC
January 1968 Percy Faith
i 1966 Nancy Sinatra
1965 Bing Crosby with Pete King and His Orchestra
i 1971 Johnny Mandel
1966 Johnny Mandel
i 1967 Johnny Mandel
i   August 1966 Peggy Lee REC, Irene Kral BRD
i August 1966 Frankie Valli
1965 Al Bowlly
1963 Julia Sanderson and Donald Brian
i August 1966 Pozo Seco Singers
i   1961 Frank Sinatra BRD, Margaret Whiting with Frank De Vol and His Orchestra REC
i 1962 Benny Bailey
i 1966 Buck Owens
i   1963 Glen Gray and The Casa Loma Orchestra - Vocal Chorus by Kenny Sargent REC, Ross Alexander [dubbed by James Newill] & Wini Shaw BRD
i 1963 George Duning
  November 1961 Liberace REL, Todd Duncan BRD
i   May 1966 Everett Marshall PRF, George Olsen and His Music – Vocal Refrain by Joe Morrison and Quartet REC
i   April 1962 Elmer Bernstein BRD, Brook Benton REL
February 1967 Pedro Via y su orquesta, Jimmie Ague
i 1959 Bob Crosby and His Orchestra featuring Trumpet by Billy Butterfield
i August 1966 Percy Sledge
January 1968 Frank Sinatra with Percy Faith and His Orchestra
1967 (unknown)
1965 Jack Jones
i 1971 The Beatles
i 1966 The Beatles
November 1961 Katharyn Mayfield - Robert Bard
January 1968 Eddy Arnold with Orchestra and Choir conducted by Charles Grean
  November 1961 Carol Bruce REC, Ella Fitzgerald REL
  1965 Carol Bruce REC, Ella Fitzgerald REL

Songs written by Oliver Nelson [US]

Original songs

Title Written by Originally by Original date Covered by
111-44 Oliver Nelson [US] Oliver Nelson with Eric Dolphy 1961 Covered by (2 artists)
Black, Brown and Beautiful Oliver Nelson [US] Oliver Nelson [US] 1970 Covered by Pierre Swärd Hammond Jazz'n Soul Group ‎
Blues and the Abstract Truth Oliver Nelson [US] Oliver Nelson [US] January 1965 Covered by (7 artists)
Butch and Butch Oliver Nelson [US] Oliver Nelson [US] September 1, 1961 Covered by (8 artists)
Elegy for a Duck Oliver Nelson [US] Oliver Nelson [US] 1966 Unverified
Hey, Who Really Cares? Oliver Nelson [US], Linda Perhacs Linda Perhacs 1970 Covered by (4 artists)
Ho! Oliver Nelson [US] Oliver Nelson [US] with Joe Newman 1962 Unverified
Hobo Flats Oliver Nelson [US] Jimmy Smith [US] 1963 Covered by (8 artists)
Hoe Down Oliver Nelson [US] Oliver Nelson [US] September 1, 1961 Covered by (7 artists)
J and B Oliver Nelson [US] Oliver Nelson [US] with Joe Newman 1962 Covered by (2 artists)
Latino Oliver Nelson [US] Oliver Nelson [US] with Joe Newman 1962 Covered by Ron Aprea Sextet
Mama Lou Oliver Nelson [US] Oliver Nelson with Eric Dolphy 1961 Unverified
Miss Fine Oliver Nelson [US] Oliver Nelson [US] August 1963 Covered by (7 artists)
Patterns for Saxophone Oliver Nelson [US] Oliver Nelson [US] 1966 Covered by Tim Eyermann Quartet ‎
Self Help Is Needed Oliver Nelson [US] Oliver Nelson [US] 1970 Covered by Big Band Dorsten
Shufflin Oliver Nelson [US] Frank Wess 1962 Covered by Yoshio Otomo Quartet
Six and Four Oliver Nelson [US] Oliver Nelson with Eric Dolphy 1961 Covered by (8 artists)
Six Million Dollar Man Oliver Nelson [US] Covered by (12 artists)
Step Right Up Oliver Nelson [US] Jimmy Smith and The Big Band - Arranged by Oliver Nelson March 26, 1962 Covered by (3 artists)
Stolen Moments Oliver Nelson [US] Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis Big Band September 20, 1960 Covered by (134 artists)
Sweet Jamie Oliver Nelson [US], Lionel E. Siegel
Teenie's Blues Oliver Nelson [US] Oliver Nelson [US] September 1, 1961 Covered by (2 artists)
The Critic's Choice Oliver Nelson [US] Oliver Nelson [US] November 11, 1964 Covered by (5 artists)
The Drive Oliver Nelson [US] Oliver Nelson Sextet with Eric Dolphy & Richard Williams May 27, 1960 Covered by The Sugar Hill Trio
Three Seconds Oliver Nelson [US] Oliver Nelson Sextet with Eric Dolphy & Richard Williams January 1961 Unverified
Tipsy Oliver Nelson [US] Benny Bailey 1961 Covered by Oliver Nelson [US] with Joe Newman
Yearnin' Oliver Nelson [US] Oliver Nelson [US] February 23, 1961 Covered by (7 artists)

Adapted songs

Releases

Albums

Title Performer Release date Label
3 Shades of Blue Johnny Hodges with Leon Thomas and Oliver Nelson 1970 Flying Dutchman
Bashin' - The Unpredictable Jimmy Smith Jimmy Smith - Arranged by Oliver Nelson May 1962 Verve Records
Black, Brown and Beautiful Oliver Nelson [US] 1970 Flying Dutchman
Blue Seven Shirley Scott with Oliver Nelson and Joe Newman May 1966 Prestige [US]
Coldwater Flat The Three Sounds and The Oliver Nelson Orchestra 1968 Blue Note
Domination Cannonball Adderley with Orchestra Arranged and Conducted by Oliver Nelson March 1965 Capitol Records
Fantabulous Oliver Nelson and His Orchestra 1964 Argo [US]
Full Nelson Oliver Nelson [US] August 1963 Verve Records
Girl in Love Bud Shank, Orchestra arranged and conducted by Oliver Nelson August 1966 World Pacific
Happenings Hank Jones & Oliver Nelson featuring Clark Terry 1967 Impulse!
Heart & Soul Miss Lorraine Ellison - Arranged & Conducted by Oliver Nelson February 1967 Warner Bros. Records
Hoochie Cooche Man Jimmy Smith [US] - Arr. & Cond. by Oliver Nelson August 1966 Verve Records
Lem's Beat Lem Winchester with Oliver Nelson 1960 New Jazz
Leon Thomas in Berlin with Oliver Nelson - Recorded Live at The Berlin Philharmonic Hall Leon Thomas with Oliver Nelson 1971 Flying Dutchman
Leo Sings ...... With Strings Leo Gooden - Arranged and conducted by Oliver Nelson 1963 L.G. Records
Live from Los Angeles Oliver Nelson's Big Band January 1968 Impulse!
Main Stem Oliver Nelson [US] with Joe Newman 1962 Prestige [US]
Meet Oliver Nelson Oliver Nelson with Kenny Dorham & Ray Bryant 1959 New Jazz
More Blues and the Abstract Truth Oliver Nelson [US] January 1965 Impulse!
Nocturne Oliver Nelson with Lem Winchester 1961 Prestige Moodsville
Oliver Edward Nelson in London with Oily Rags Oliver Edward Nelson with Oily Rags 1974 Flying Dutchman
Oliver Nelson in Tokyo Oliver meets Sharps & Flats 1971 Nippon Columbia
Oliver Nelson Plays Michelle Oliver Nelson [US] 1966 Impulse!
Rita Reys Meets Oliver Nelson Rita Reys - Orchestra arranged and conducted by Oliver Nelson 1965 Philips
Screamin' the Blues Oliver Nelson Sextet with Eric Dolphy & Richard Williams January 1961 New Jazz
Soulful Brass Oliver Nelson & Steve Allen 1968 Impulse!
Soul Street Jimmy Forrest with Oliver Nelson 1962 Prestige [US]
Soul Summit Vol. 2 Gene Ammons, Jack McDuff, Etta Jones, Oliver Nelson 1963 Prestige [US]
Sound Pieces Oliver Nelson [US] 1966 Impulse!
So Warm Etta Jones and Strings, Music arranged and conducted by Oliver Nelson November 1961 Prestige [US]
Straight Ahead Oliver Nelson with Eric Dolphy 1961 Prestige [US]
Taking Care of Business Oliver Nelson Quintet October 1960 New Jazz
Talk That Talk Johnny "Hammond" Smith with Oliver Nelson 1960 New Jazz
The Blues and the Abstract Truth Oliver Nelson [US] September 1, 1961 Impulse!
The Spirit of '67 Pee Wee Russell and Oliver Nelson and His Orchestra 1967 Impulse!
Welcome to My Love Nancy Wilson - Arranged and conducted by Oliver Nelson January 1968 Capitol Records

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