SPEAK TO
ME OF LOVE
RAY
CONIFF
SONGRITERS:
JEAN LENOIR & BRUCE SIEVIER
COUNTRY:
U. S. A.
ALBUM: SPEAK
TO ME OF LOVE
LABEL: COLUMBIA
GENRE: JAZZ
YEAR:1964
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.
Conniff was born in Attleboro,
Massachusetts, and learned to play the trombone from his father. He studied
music arranging from a course book.
Between 1957-68, Conniff
had 28 albums in the American Top 40, the most famous one being Somewhere My
Love (1966). He topped the album list in Britain in 1969 with His Orchestra,
His Chorus, His Singers, His Sound, an album which was originally published to
promote his European tour (Germany, Austria, Switzerland) in 1969. He also was
the first American popular artist to record in Russia—in 1974 he recorded Ray
Conniff in Moscow with the help of a local choir. His later albums like Exclusivamente
Latino, Amor Amor, and Latinisimo made him very popular in Latin-American
countries, even more so after performing in the Viña del Mar International Song
Festival. In Brazil
and Chile he was treated like a young pop superstar in the 1980s and 1990s when
he was in his 70s and 80s. He even played live with his
orchestra and eight-person chorus in large football stadiums as well as in Viña
del Mar..
Speak
to me of love
And
say what I’m longing to hear
Tender
words of love
Repeat
them again
I
implore you
Speak
to me of love
And
whisper these words to me, dear
I
adore you.
Speak
to me of love
And
whisper these words to me, dear
I
adore you.
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