Love Is a Game of Poker is the fourteenth studio album by American composer and arranger Nelson Riddle, released in 1962. Reception William Ruhlmann reviewed the album for Allmusic and wrote that it seemed "...to have been influenced by Henry Mancini's similar success, leading to a more prominent rhythm section and a jazzier feel than one usually associates with Riddle's charts", and that Riddle's "feel for melody was not extinguished by any means but, probably due to his recent experience, his arrangements and (on three tracks) compositions had a far more cinematic flair, which gave them an early-'60s contemporaneity and brought him out of the '50s just as he was moving on to new challenges". DJ Spooky, in his 2008 book Sound Unbound: Sampling Digital Music and Culture described Riddle's arrangement of "Witchcraft" on this album as a " brain-tickling juxtaposition of reverberating strings, bells, and chimes". Track listing Side 1 "Playboy's Theme" (Cy Coleman, Carolyn Leigh) – 2:54 "Alone Too Long" (Dorothy Fields, Arthur Schwartz) – 2:37 "Queen of Hearts" (Nelson Riddle) – 3:10 "Red Silk Stockings and Green Perfume" (Bob Hilliard, Sammy Mysels, Dick Sanford) – 3:01 "Finesse" (Riddle) – 3:30 "A Game of Poker" (Harold Arlen, Johnny Mercer) – 2:16 Side 2 "It's So Nice to Have a Man Around the House" (Jack Elliott, Harold Spina) – 2:23 "Witchcraft" (Coleman, Leigh) – 3:18 "Two Hearts Wild" (Riddle) – 2:12 "You Fascinate Me So" (Coleman, Leigh) – 3:13 "Penny Ante" (Riddle) – 3:00 "Indiscreet" (Sammy Cahn, Jimmy Van Heusen) – 2:27 Personnel Nelson Riddle – arranger Dick Nash - Trombone Tommy Shepard - Trombone Jimmy Henderson - Trombone Shorty Sherock - Trumpet Cappy Lewis - Trumpet Don Fagerquist - Trumpet Ronnie Lang - Saxophone Buddy Collette - Flute/Saxophone Wilbur (Willie) Schwartz - Clarinet Vince De Rosa French Horn Frank Flynn - Drummer Ray Sherman - Piano Joe Comfort - Bass Re-releases Pickwick Records In June 1965, Pickwick Records released seven of the twelve tracks from “Love Is a Game of Poker” in a ten-track album titled “Witchcraft!". Additional tracks came from 1957’s “Hey . . . Let Yourself Go!,”* plus a tune from a 45 rpm single.** Side 1 ”Witchcraft” ”Along Too Long” ”Red Silk Stockings” ”It’s So Nice to Have a Man Around The House” ”You Fascinate Me So” Side 2 ”Playboy’s Theme” ”Indiscreet” ”I Get Along Without You Very Well”* ”Darn That Dream”* ”Blue Safari”** An