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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 ... "

Reception

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". 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".

It reached number 20 on the Billboard chart.

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.

Track listing

Side 1

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Let's Face the Music and Dance"	Irving Berlin	2:29
2.	"You Are My Lucky Star"	Arthur Freed, Nacio Herb Brown	2:37
3.	"You and the Night and the Music"	Arthur Schwartz, Howard Dietz	3:35
4.	"Younger Than Springtime"	Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II	3:27
5.	"You Leave Me Breathless"	F. Hollander, Ralph Freed	2:40
6.	"You're An Old Smoothie"	Buddy DeSylva, Lew Brown, Richard A. Whiting	2:21

Side 2

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Then I'll Be Happy"	Cliff Friend, Brown, Sidney Clare	2:28
2.	"I Get Along Without You Very Well"	Hoagy Carmichael	3:12
3.	"I Can't Escape From You"	Leo Robin, Whiting	3:02
4.	"Have You Got Any Castles, Baby?"	Johnny Mercer, Whiting	1:49
5.	"Darn That Dream"	Eddie DeLange, James Van Heusen	3:38
6.	"Let Yourself Go"	Berlin	3:10

References

"April Album Releases". The Cash Box. New York NY. April 13, 1957. p. 36.
Hey . . . Let Yourself Go! (LP record). Nelson Riddle. Hollywood, California: Capitol Records. 1957.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
"Album Reviews". The Cash Box. New York NY. April 20, 1957. p. 24.
Mark Deming. "Hey…Let Yourself Go!". AllMusic.com. Retrieved March 1, 2023.
Levinson, Peter J. (2001). September in the Rain; The Life of Nelson Riddle. Billboard Books. p. 181. ISBN 0-8230-7672-5.
"The Billboard Tenth Annual Disk Jockey Poll". Billboard. New York NY. November 11, 1957. p. 32.

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Albums	The Music from Oklahoma! (Capitol, 1955) The Tender Touch (Capitol, 1956) Hey...Let Yourself Go! (Capitol, 1957) C'mon...Get Happy! (Capitol, 1957) Sea of Dreams (Capitol, 1958) The Joy of Living (Capitol, 1959) Sing a Song with Riddle (Capitol, 1959) Music of the Motion Picture "Can Can" (Capitol, 1960) Original Music from The TV Show The Untouchables (Capitol, 1960) Dance to the Music of "Tenderloin" (Capitol, 1961) Love Tide (Capitol, 1961) Magic Moments from "The Gay Life" (Capitol, 1961) Route 66 Theme and Other Great TV Themes (Capitol, 1962) Love Is a Game of Poker (Capitol, 1962) More Hit TV Themes (Capitol, 1963) The Best of Nelson Riddle (Capitol, 1963) White on White, Shangri-La, Charade & Other Hits of 1964 (Reprise, 1964) Original Music from The Rogues (RCA Victor, 1964) Interprets Great Music, Great Films, Great Sounds (Reprise, 1964) NAT: An Orchestral Portrait of Nat "King" Cole (Reprise, 1966) Music for Wives and Lovers (Solid State, 1967) The Bright and the Beautiful (Liberty, 1967) The Riddle of Today (Liberty, 1968) British Columbia Suite (Capilano, 1969) Nelson Riddle Conducts The 101 Strings (Marble Arch, 1970) Communication (MPS, 1971) Changing Colors (MPS, 1972)
With Rosemary Clooney	Rosie Solves the Swingin' Riddle! (RCA Victor, 1961) Love (Reprise, 1963)
With Nat King Cole	Unforgettable (Capitol, 1954) Nat King Cole Sings for Two in Love (Capitol, 1954) The Piano Style of Nat King Cole (Capitol, 1955) Ballads of the Day (Capitol, 1956) St. Louis Blues (Capitol, 1958) Cole Español (1958) To Whom It May Concern (Capitol, 1959) Wild Is Love (Capitol, 1960)
With Ella Fitzgerald	Ella Fitzgerald Sings the George and Ira Gershwin Song Book (Verve, 1959) Ella Swings Gently with Nelson (Verve, 1962) Ella Swings Brightly with Nelson (Verve, 1962) Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Jerome Kern Song Book (Verve, 1963) Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Johnny Mercer Song Book (Verve, 1964) Ella Loves Cole Dream Dancing (Atlantic, 1972) The Best Is Yet to Come (Pablo, 1982)
With Linda Ronstadt	What's New? (Elektra, 1983) Lush Life (Elektra, 1984) For Sentimental Reasons (Elektra, 1986)
With Frank Sinatra	Swing Easy! (Capitol, 1954) Songs for Young Lovers (Capitol, 1954) In the Wee Small Hours (Capitol, 1955) Songs for Swingin' Lovers! (Capitol, 1956) Close to You (Capitol, 1956) A Swingin' Affair! (Capitol, 1956) Frank Sinatra Sings for Only the Lonely (Capitol, 1958) Nice 'n' Easy (Capitol, 1960) Sinatra's Swingin' Session!!! (Capitol, 1960) The Concert Sinatra (1963) Sinatra's Sinatra (1963) Sinatra Sings Days of Wine and Roses, Moon River, and Other Academy Award Winners (Reprise, 1964) Strangers in the Night (Reprise, 1966) Moonlight Sinatra (Reprise, 1966)
With Keely Smith	I Wish You Love (Capitol, 1958) Swingin' Pretty (Capitol, 1959) Little Girl Blue/Little Girl New (Reprise, 1963)
With Ed Townsend	New In Town (Capitol, 1959) Glad To Be Here (Capitol, 1959)
With others	Shirley Bassey, Let's Face the Music (Columbia, 1962) Bing Crosby, Return to Paradise Islands (Reprise, 1964) Judy Garland, Judy (1956) Antônio Carlos Jobim, The Wonderful World of Antônio Carlos Jobim (Warner Bros., 1965) Peggy Lee, The Man I Love (Capitol, 1957) Dean Martin, This Time I'm Swingin'! (Capitol, 1960) Johnny Mathis, I'll Buy You a Star (Capitol, 1962) Oscar Peterson, Oscar Peterson and Nelson Riddle (Verve, 1964) Mavis Rivers, Take a Number (Capitol, 1959) Tommy Sands, When I'm Thinking of You (Capitol, 1959) Dinah Shore, Dinah, Yes Indeed! (Capitol, 1959) Phil Silvers, Phil Silvers and Swinging Brass (Columbia, 1957)

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