Richard Hayman
Biography
Richard Warren Joseph Hayman (March 27, 1920 – February 5, 2014) was an American musician who was the chief music arranger of the Boston Pops Orchestra for over 50 years, and served as a pops conductor for orchestras including the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, the St. Louis Symphony and the Grand Rapids Symphony in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He toured and recorded as a harmonica player and made dozens of recordings for Mercury Records as "Richard Hayman and His Orchestra." His biggest hit was a single, "Ruby," from the 1952 film Ruby Gentry, starring Jennifer Jones and Charlton Heston. Hayman's arrangement featured himself as harmonica soloist. Over a lengthy career, he created musical arrangements for more than 50 artists and entertainers including Barbra Streisand, Bob Hope, Liza Minnelli and Olivia Newton-John.
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Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
Jazz Goes To College
1954
The Best Of Chet Atkins And Friends
1976
Voodoo!
1959
Great Moments Of Music: Marches
1980
Encore (Fiedler's Greatest Hits)
1971
Motion Picture Classics
1970
Christmas In New York Vol. 3
1969
Pops Varieties
1969
The Age Of Electronicus
1969
The Best Of Arthur Fiedler And The Boston Pops
1965
Latin For Lovers
1965
"Pops" Goes The Trumpet (Holiday For Brass)
1964
Star Dust
1963
Pops Roundup
1962
Soul Of Harlem
1961
Kai Olé
1961
Guitar de Amor
1960
John Duffy At The Mighty Columbia Square Wurlitzer
1955
Liebestraum
Credited work
1,535 releases · 391 albums · active 1952–2025
- Performance · 2,343
- Other credits · 272
- Production · 19
Studios: Symphony Hall, Boston · Music Hall, Cincinnati · Concert Hall Of The Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra · Studio Of The Czechoslovak Radio (Bratislava)
Frequent collaborators
- Arthur Fiedler
- Various
- Richard Hayman And His Orchestra
- Boston Pops
- Erich Kunzel
- John Williams (4)
- Chet Atkins
- Boston Pops Orchestra