Dick Reynolds (musician)

{{short description|American musician, songwriter, and arranger (1923–1988)}}

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| birth_name = Richard Eastis Reynolds

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| instrument = Trombone

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| past_member_of = The Dick Reynolds Orchestra, The Four Freshmen, The Ray Anthony Orchestra

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Richard Eastis Reynolds was an American musician, bandleader, songwriter, conductor and trombonist{{cite book|last=Friedwald|first=Will|title=Sinatra! the Song is You: A Singer's Art|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gCBrW4AtY8QC&pg=PA237|year=1995|publisher=Simon and Schuster|isbn=978-0-684-19368-7|pages=237–}} who was an arranger for The Four Freshmen.{{cite book|last=Badman|first=Keith|title=The Beach Boys: The Definitive Diary of America's Greatest Band, on Stage and in the Studio|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sLEMdjRhDgQC&pg=PA57|year=2004|publisher=Backbeat Books|isbn=978-0-87930-818-6|pages=57, 101, 371}}

He also arranged for Frank Sinatra and authored "If I Ever Love Again", which Sinatra recorded in 1949.

Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys said of Reynolds: "[He's] just about a god to me. His work is the greatest, and the Freshmen's execution is too much."{{cite book|last1=Nathan|first1=David|last2=Lindsay|first2=Susan Gedutis|title=Inside the Hits|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UVJDvitqIvIC&pg=PA89|year=2001|publisher=Berklee Press|isbn=978-0-634-01430-7|page=89}} Reynolds was later employed by Wilson for the recording of The Beach Boys' Christmas Album (1964) and Adult/Child (unreleased, 1977).