And Jackie Gleason's "music for lover's only". How much of it was him and how much of it really was just in-name-only I don't know. I like it, but maybe that makes me unsophisticated. But then again I have always liked how arrangers can take a song and totally change it, for better and for worse.
I know that people may not tell tales out of school, but as much acclaim as Jerry Goldsmith and John Williams have had, deservedly so, how much of their popularity is due to their orchestrators and arrangers? Just as a quick example. Goldsmith's theme for The Man From U.N.C.L.E., in my layperson/appreciator of music opinion, didn't get the pizazz that I like in spy themes until there was a later season arrangement by Gerald Fried and another by Morton Stevens. I'm just saying.