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Peter Matz

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Aliases
Orchestra conducted by Peter Matz
Peter Matz & His Orchestra
Real name
Peter Matz
Born
November 6, 1928
Died
August 9, 2002
Country
United States
IPI
00020156338 1 work
Affiliation
BMI
Comments
Musical director, composer, pianist, arranger, orchestrator and conductor for Broadway, Hollywood and--most prolifically--television.
Matz won a Grammy Award for his arrangements on Barbra Streisand's 1964 album “People”, and Emmys for programs featuring Barbra Streisand (the 1965 television special “My Name Is Barbra”), Burt Bacharach and Carol Burnett.
Member of
No Strings Sextet
Family
Marilynn Lovell Wife (1981-2002)
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Originals

Title Performer Release date Covered by
1955 (9 artists)
1955 (3 artists)
August 1963 (4 artists)
February 1965 Gail Pettis
 REC,REL January 21, 1964 (19 artists)
Originally by Sydney Chaplin, Barbra Streisand PRF
August 1963 (14 artists)
March 1967 (21 artists)
 REL 1957 (2 artists)
Originally by Graham Payn PRF
 REC December 19, 1966 (6 artists)
Originally by Joanie Sommers REL
May 1965 (7 artists)
1957 Olivia Breeze, Patricia Routledge & John Moffatt
 REL 1966 Christine Andreas
Originally by Frankie Michaels, Angela Lansbury REC, Frankie Michaels and Angela Lansbury PRF
 REL May 1965 (3 artists)
Originally by Jennie Tourel - Leonard Bernstein PRF, Blanche Thebom - Leonard Bernstein REC
May 1965 (3 artists)
 REC,REL January 21, 1964 (272 artists)
Originally by Barbra Streisand PRF
1957 (20 artists)
May 1965 (2 artists)
December 19, 1966 (3 artists)
October 1965 (4 artists)
December 19, 1966 (11 artists)
1957 (2 artists)
December 19, 1966 (4 artists)
1957 Meow Meow
May 1965 (117 artists)

Covers by Peter Matz

Title Performer Release date Originally by
1999 Noël Coward - Carlton Hayes and His Orchestra - Piano acc. and arr. by Peter Matz
August 28, 1964 Julie London
Covered by (2 artists)
1999 Mary Martin
  1994 Eddy Duchin and His Central Park Casino Orchestra - Vocal Chorus by Lew Sherwood REC,REL, Fred Astaire PRF
May 1965 Danny Kaye
October 1965 Neil Wolfe cond. by Marty Manning
  1964 Eddy Duchin and His Orchestra - Vocal Chorus by Stanley Worth REC, Hiram Sherman, Frances Mercer, Hollace Shaw, Ralph Stuart PRF
August 1963 Ruby Hill with "St. Louis Woman" Choral Group and Orchestra under the direction of Leon Leonardi
  1964 Jack Whiting PRF, Libby Holman REC,REL
  February 25, 1963 Diahann Carroll, Dolores Harper, Ada Moore and Enid Mosier REL,PRF
  February 25, 1963 Billy Dee Williams PRF, Bobby Scott REC,REL
i September 1967 Aaron Lebedeff and Lucy Levin
i June 1972 Simon and Garfunkel
i September 1967 Fred Hamm and His Orchestra
1964 Jack Buchanan
i September 1967 Hugo Winterhalter and His Orchestra
i   September 1967 Glenn Miller and His Orchestra - Vocal Refrain by Tex Beneke and The Four Modernaires REL, Glenn Miller and His Orchestra with Tex Benteke and the Modernaires and Dorothy Dandridge and the Nicholas Brothers BRD
February 25, 1963 Cyril Ritchard
February 25, 1963 Julie London
1966 The Lovin' Spoonful
1994 (unknown)
  August 1963 Tommy Dorsey and His Orchestra - Vocal Refrain by Edythe Wright REC,REL, Jack Whiting, June Clyde and Vivian Vance PRF
  1994 Nan Wynn PRF, Benny Goodman Quintet - Vocal Chorus by Peggy Mann REC
i September 1967 Lupita Palomera con la Orq. Hnos Dominguez
1999 Aida Ward PRF, Cab Calloway and His Orchestra REC, Ethel Waters with Duke Ellington & His Orchestra PRF, Leo Reisman and His Orchestra - Vocal Refrain by Harold Arlen REC, Ted Wallace & His Campus Boys (Ed Kirkeby) REC, Ruth Etting PRF, Ethel Waters BRD, Woody Herman and His Orchestra - Vocal by Frances Wayne REC,REL, David Brooks and Celeste Holm, Judy Garland, Johnny Mercer and The Pied Pipers with Paul Weston and His Orchestra REC,REL, Bing Crosby & Sonny Tufts BRD, June Hawkins, Glenn Miller and His Orchestra, Lena Horne with Orchestra conducted by Horace Henderson REC,REL, Fred Astaire BRD
i September 1967 Jacques Renard & His Orchestra
1999 Carol Channing, David Burns, and Company, Eileen Brennan
i   June 1972 Kris Kristofferson REC, Percy Sledge REL
February 1965 Dolores Gray
February 1965 Nellie Lutcher and Her Rhythm
February 1965 Blind Sammie, Nellie Lutcher and Her Rhythm
  May 1965 Kenneth Nelson and Jerry Orbach PRF, Kenneth Nelson & Jerry Orbach REL
  1994 Douglas McPhail BRD, Les Brown and His Orchestra - Vocal Refrain by Shirley Howard REC,REL
1966 Mary Martin & Robert Preston
i June 1972 Yvonne Elliman
1966 Angela Lansbury
  1964 Ivy St. Helier REL,PRF
May 1965 George Robey and Violet Loraine
  October 1965 Lawrence Tibbett REC,REL, Todd Duncan PRF
February 1965 Glenn Miller and His Orchestra - Vocal Refrain by Paula Kelly and The Four Modernaires
i   June 1972 Jerry Orbach and Jill O'Hara PRF,REL
  February 25, 1963 Dennis King PRF, Barbra Streisand REC
  1994 Les Baxter with His Chorus and Orchestra REC,REL, Lilo PRF
1964 Fred Astaire & Rita Hayworth [dubbed by Nan Wynn]
1994 Tommy Dorsey and His Orchestra
August 1963 Patti Page
1964 Shirley Ross
  1964 Dick Hyman REL, Richard Kollmar and Jeanne Madden PRF
  1994 Peter Cookson - Orchestra conducted by Milton Rosenstock REC,REL, Peter Cookson PRF
i   June 1972 Carole King REC,REL
  May 1965 Dickie Jones BRD, Victor Young and His Orchestra - With The Ken Darby Singers REC,REL
  1994 Virginia Bruce BRD, Frances Langford with Jimmy Dorsey and His Orchestra REC
  1957 Beatrice Lillie PRF,REL
1999 Grace McDonald & Rolly Pickert
i September 1967 Earl Hines and His Orchestra
  1994 Richard Himber and His Ritz-Carlton Orch. - Vocal Refrain by Stuart Allen REC,REL, June Knight & Charles Walters PRF
February 25, 1963 Louis Armstrong and His Orchestra
1994 Ben Bernie and His Hotel Roosevelt Orchestra
1999 Jeanette MacDonald
1999 Johnny Williams, His Orchestra and Chorus, Peter Lind Hayes, Eddie Quillan, Frank Jenks & Robert Paige BRD, Russ Morgan and His Orchestra – Vocal Chorus by Jimmy Lewis REC, Mary Hay and Clifton Webb PRF, Lee Wiley with Max Kaminsky's Orchestra REC,REL
  February 25, 1963 Rita Gardner PRF,REL
February 25, 1963 The Virginians
1999 Petula Clark with Orchestra under the direction of Bob Sharples
  May 1965 Mistinguett, Fanny Brice REC,PRF
  1964 Hildegarde with Orchestra directed by Harry Sosnik REC, Bob Chester and His Orchestra - Vocal Refrain by Betty Bradley REL, Gertrude Lawrence PRF
  1994 Leo Reisman and His Orchestra - Vocal Refrain by Fred Astaire REC, Fred Astaire PRF
1966 Louis Jourdan
  February 1965 Shirley Temple BRD, Vincent Rose and His Orchestra REC
February 1965 Ethel Waters
i June 1972 Anne Murray
  October 1965 Earle MacVeigh & Ensemble PRF, Ruby Newman and His Orchestra REC,REL
  1994 Ethel Merman with Fairchild and Carroll and Their Orchestra REL, Ethel Merman PRF
  August 1963 Celeste Holm & David Brooks PRF,REL
1999 Rega Dance Orchestra (Fred Hager)
  October 1965 Ted Lewis and His Orchestra REC, Fanny Brice PRF
October 1965 Ted Lewis and His Orchestra REC, Fanny Brice PRF, John Payne BRD, Bing Crosby and Jimmy Dorsey and His Orchestra REC, Swing and Sway with Sammy Kaye - Vocal Refrain by Betty Barclay REL, Lawrence Tibbett REC,REL, Todd Duncan PRF, Rex Weber PRF, Leo Reisman and His Orchestra REC, Jimmie Cox PRF, Blind Bobby Baker and His Guitar REC,REL, George Olsen and His Music - Vocal Refrain by Bob Borger REC, Mary Lawlor and John Price Jones PRF
  1994 Patricia Morison PRF, Tommy Dorsey and His Orchestra - Vocal Refrain by Denny Dennis REC,REL
  May 1965 Gertrude Lawrence REC,REL,PRF
1966 Maurice Jarre, Ray Conniff and The Singers
i September 1967 Yekab Karklin
  February 25, 1963 Kenneth Nelson & Rita Gardner REL, Kenneth Nelson and Rita Gardner PRF
  1999 Kenneth Nelson & Rita Gardner REL, Kenneth Nelson and Rita Gardner PRF
1966 Bert Kaempfert, Frank Sinatra - Arranged and conducted by Nelson Riddle
i September 1967 Glenn Miller and His Orchestra
i June 1972 Murray Head with The Trinidad Singers
i   September 1967 Dorothy Lamour - Orchestra under direction of Cy Feuer REC, Bob Hope & Shirley Ross BRD
1966 SSgt Barry Sadler - U.S. Army Special Forces - Arranged and conducted by Sid Bass
1964 Irene Dunne
1966 Richard Kiley
i September 1967 Reilly-Farley and Their Onyx Club Boys
1966 Johnny Mandel
i June 1972 Simon and Garfunkel
i December 19, 1966 Rick Nelson - Arranged and conducted by Peter Matz
  1994 Kitty Kallen REL, Bing Crosby - Grace Kelly REC
December 19, 1966 Joanie Sommers- Arranged and conducted by Peter Matz
  1957 Binnie Barnes PRF, Jack Payne and His B.B.C. Dance Orchestra REC,REL
i September 1967 John Kirby and His Onyx Club Boys
1964 Victor Young, Jeri Southern with Victor Young and His Orchestra
1964 Edith Piaf, Bob Sands with Orchestra conducted by Bill Loose
  October 1965 Helen Ford, Margaret Breen and Ensemble PRF, Harry Reser's Syncopators REC
February 1965 The Rolling Styles of Reggie Childs and His Orchestra - Vocal by Marion Kaye
  1966 Norman Wisdom PRF, Shirley Bassey with Accompaniment directed by Johnnie Spence REL
February 25, 1963 Pinto Colvig, Mary Moder & Dorothy Compton
  August 1963 Keith Hamshere & Chorus PRF, Oliver & Chorus (Keith Hamshere) REL
1966 The Beatles
  1994 Dick Jurgens and His Orchestra - Vocal Chorus by Harry Cool REC, Dinah Shore with Orchestra conducted by Paul Wetstein REL
1964 Frances Langford, Libby Bennett, Ann Miller & Lucille Ball [dubbed by Trudy Erwin]
i June 1972 Carole King

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