[1] Riddle's first album consisted of a set of pop arrangements of Broadway tunes The Music from Oklahoma!, in 1955, followed by a collection of lush love songs The Tender Touch released a year later.

For Hey...Let Yourself Go!, Riddle assembled a dozen “carefree, up-tempo rhythms,” as the liner notes characterized them.

Cash Box characterized Riddle's work as "12 sparkling and inventive arrangements in dance tempo", and dubbed the album a "happy, rhythmic offering".

[3] The album was said to have captured Riddle's style "at its most frothy and effervescent", with "upbeat numbers that swing, but with an easygoing grace".

was ranked the ninth most popular album of the year in the Billboard annual disk jockey poll.