DREAM YOUTH ORCHESTRA
RAY CONNIFF
& ORCHESTRA
SONGWRITER:
COUNTRY:
U.S.A.
ALBUM: RAY
CONNIFF THE ULTIMATE COLLECTION
LABEL: CBS
GENRE: JAZZ
YEAR: 2000
Joseph Raymond Conniff (November 6, 1916 – October 12, 2002) was an American bandleader and arranger best known for his Ray Conniff Singers
during the 1960s.
In 1959 he started The Ray
Conniff Singers (12 women and 13 men) and released the álbum It's the Talk of
the Town. This group brought him the biggest hit he ever had in his career: Somewhere
My Love (1966). The lyrics of the album's title selection were written to the
music of "Lara's Theme"
from the film Doctor Zhivago, and the
result was a top 10 single in the US.
The album reached the US top 20 and went platinum, and
Conniff won a Grammy. The single and album also reached high positions in the
international charts (a.o. Australia, Germany, Great Britain, Japan), whilst
the first of four Christmas albums by the Singers, Christmas with
Conniff (1959) was also successful.
Nearly 50 years after its release, in 2004, Conniff was
posthumously awarded a platinum album/CD. Other
well-known releases by the Singers included Ray Conniff's Hawaiian álbum (1967),
featuring the hit song "Pearly Shells" and "Bridge Over Troubled
Water" (1970), which included Conniff's original composition
"Someone", and remakes of such hits as "All I Have to do is
Dream", "I'll Never Fall in Love Again", and
"Something".
Musically different
highlights in Conniff's career are two albums he produced in cooperation with Billy
Butterfield, an old friend from earlier swing days. Conniff Meets Butterfield (1959)
featured Butterfield's solo trumpet and a small rhythm group; Just Kiddin'
Around (after a Conniff original composition from the 1940s), released 1963,
featured additional trombone solos by Ray himself. Both albums are pure light jazz
and did not feature any vocals.
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