Music literally is a many-sided affair. Only a top-notch musician can keep pace with the constantly changing panorama of popular musical tastes. That’s why ‘Music By Maltby’ has impressed millions of listeners and dancers. For Richard Maltby is a quartet in sound… a multi-talented conductor, composer, arranger and instrumentalist who can successfully ally the various elements and preferences in modern music. The twelve renditions in this album are a Maltby mosaic... the titles ranging in style from a melodious Old English folk ballad to a gyrating, brass-baiting cha cha. The swing-influenced numbers are here, too, slightly swayed by the Latin rumba, tango and paso doble that surrounds them. And, for added variety, here is the singing voice of lovely Mary Mazza, a particular favorite on the Maltby college dates, one-nighters and ballroom stints. She is ably accompanied by the renowned singing group of radio, television and recordings... The Honeydreamers. But it is basically a dance band sound, with a straight-from-the-bandstand flavor. There isnt’t a piano in evidence, except for the triplets supplied by the maestro himself in Almost Unbelievable. Characteristically, most of the arrangements are also by Maltby. ‘Many-Sided Maltby’ is typified by the many sidemen of musical stature featured herein; Joe Lenza, Bernie Kaufman, Boomie Richman, Stan Webb and Artie Drelinger, saxes; Bernie Glow, Carl ‘Doc’ Severinsen, Al Muller and Rusty Dedrick, trumpets; Arthur Marotti and Terry Snyder, percussion; Urbie Green, Chauncey Welsch and Lou McGarity, trombone; Don Butterfield, tuba; Milt Hinton, bass; and Al Caiola and Tom Mottola, guitars.