This website incorporates many
pages of Doug Mitchell’s official
Ray Conniff Page
(www.rayconniff.info), such as the
list of original albums,
compilations, Ray’s biography
etc. Click on the photo on the
right to visit it. In order to get back
from Doug’s pages to this
website, please use the BACK
button of your browser.
A very happy New Year to all the fans of Ray Conniff and his music around the world! Please note that
I archived last year’s news and that of previous years. Please use the buttons above.
Re-issues on the Blue Moon label:
Doug Mitchell wrote, “They went to great effort to reproduce the detail of the back covers (notes and
photos). The text has been either reproduced with original fonts or scanned and carefully altered so
that they do not show ads for Ray's other albums or any Columbia markings. The text is very clean.
The photos are great. It's nice to see the entire Say It With Music cover reproduced. Memories is better
than the USA CD but still doesn't show as much of the photo as the Lp. The sound all appears to have
been taken from USA or UK reissues. Hollywood is from Collectables (which is slightly different than
the Columbia CD). The channels are reversed on Memories. Talk Of The Town appears to be from the
UK CD and I think 's Awful Nice may be from UK also. Upon first listening, Broadway didn't sound
exactly like the USA reissue but it is not the UK mix. If these are "unofficial" reissues, it is strange that
they put so much effort into the packaging. They are really well done. I can't believe the attention to
detail. I plan to buy more as they become available.” The next ones will be released at the end of
January 2012. They are “’s Continental” & “So Much in Love”, and “Young at Heart” & “Somebody
Loves Me”. For further information on their previous releases go to 2011 News Archive.
Ardent Ray Conniff fan Igor from Moscow, Russia, recently discovered an interview with Ray on the
website of the Hamilton College Library Digital Collections. It was conducted on February 14, 1998, by
Monk Rowe, director of the Hamilton College Jazz Archive. Click on the picture on the left to get to the
website, from which you can also download the transcript of the interview (pdf-document, 23 pages).
Thanks a lot, Igor!
Haven’t you ever wondered what kind of device Ray Conniff purchased for $ 1.00 that taught him how
to arrange songs? He mentioned “The Lightning Arranger” quite often in interviews - e.g. in the one
mentioned below (see entry of January 11, 2012). Doug Mitchell conducted some research on the
internet and came across the advertisement on the right as well as an article about its inventor. Very
interesting! Thanks a lot, Doug!
To be released on February 20, 2012, a 2 CD set titled “All Or Nothing At All”. This set features 4 of Ray
Conniff’s albums: “Young at Heart” and “Somebody Loves Me” (Ray Conniff Singers), and “Say It WIth
Music” and “Memories Are Made of This” (Orchestra and Chorus), plus 5 bonus tracks from “It’s the Talk
of the Town”, 2 from “Hollywood in Rhythm”, and one from “Concert in Rhythm, Vol. II”. Also available as
an mp3 download. Click on the cover scan on the left for more details.
The Ray Conniff Singers with Jerry Lewis? Click on
the photo on the right for enlargement and try to find
out the names of the singers shown together with
Jerry Lewis (right). Clearly identifiable are Jay Meyer
and Vangie Carmichael. But what about the others?
Perry La Marca wrote on March 24, “The man on the
far right is Thurl Ravenscroft and the woman in the
white suit is Jackie Ward.” On April 4, Perry added,
“After a little research, I think the album may be a little
too early for Jackie Ward. The woman in the white suit
is, I believe, Loulie Jean Norman (they look somewhat
familiar from a distance...). A lot of the other singers also look very familiar (Verne Rowe, Jack
Halloran, etc.), but it's a bit hard to tell. However, I think if you look at the back cover of Ray's "Speak
To Me Of Love" album, it may lend some clues.” Thanks, Perry!
This picture is from the cover of an album titled “The Jerry Lewis Singers: ‘Yesterday’ And Other
Folk Rock Hits”. It is a collector’s item that I could add to my collection recently, thanks to my friend
Warren.
•
Downloadable compilations are now listed on a separate page.
•
Some of the fan club magazines (“’s Conniff”), and articles from “Conniff and Rhythm”, are
available again as pdf-files, some of them also as “flip or e-papers”. For details click here. (Latest
upload: July 18, 2012)
•
Quite a few Ray Conniff-related clips / collages have been uploaded onto YouTube recently by
Jorge Carpes from Brazil. Click here for an overview.
•
I am sorry to say that Jorge L. D. Iorio’s “The Lyrics Page” is out of operation for the time
being. (See entry of Aug. 25!)
August 25, 2012:
Jorge Iório’s Lyrics Page will become available again at http://www.connifflyrics.com.br/ soon. Due to
serious computer problems, most files of the lyrics are lost. If you downloaded and saved some of
them, you are kindly requested to send them to me.
August 9, 2012:
July 29, 2012:
“The Collector’s Guide” updated! Many names of musicians and singers added (sources: program
booklets). You can download separate parts or a single file (175 pages).
July 19, 2012:
Recent discoveries on YouTube:
•
A video of Ray’s rendition of “Brazil” at the
Viña del Mar-Festival
in Chile in1981. Previous
uploads of this were incomplete.
•
...and (if you’re ready for some fun) a parody of Ray Conniff, his Orchestra and Singers.
July 12, 2012
(updated
August 15):
Fans discovered a couple of DVDs by Ray in Brazil. It seems, these are bootlegs. One of them
obviously features a collection of clips downloaded from YouTube, another one features his free open
air concert at Villa Lobos Park (as broadcast on DirecTV in 1999), and a third one appears to be a copy
of the DVD from Sony Mexico, originally titled “Las Números Uno”. For details, please click on the
picture on the left, which will take you to the DVD page. Scroll down the page for cover scans, links and
further information.
June 26/
July 7, 2012:
June 9, 2012:
Interested in Ray Conniff’s Quadraphonic albums? For details go to The Collector’s Guide and study
its last pages. Ray Conniff wrote special arrangements for Quad recordings. All about Quad can be
found here (a Wikipedia entry).
May 21, 2012:
Almost all clips from Ray Conniff’s performance at the Viña del Mar-Festival, Chile (February 9 and 10,
1979) are now available in fine quality and in colour on YouTube: Somewhere My Love (Sing-Along),
Paloma Blanca, Brazil and If You Leave Me Now. Besame Mucho is incomplete, and still missing is
Hello Dolly. Among the singers is Jackie Allen. For the "Somewhere My Love"-Sing Along, Tamara and
Vera join Ray on stage. Ray was given the "Gaviota" (=seagull) award onstage (see photo on the left).
One of the photos taken during this ceremony became the cover photo of his 1980 album
"Exclusivamente Latino".
May 6/13, 2012
(details updated
August 9, 2012!):
We are already in the preparation stage for the 2013 Ray Conniff Fan Club Convention, which will
take place in Belgium from September 13 to 16. The fans will be accommodated in Brussels, and a
day trip to Bruges is planned, too. For details please click here.
September 2013 seems to be ages away from today, but in order to make reservations for a group of
around 50 people or more, it is advisable to plan ahead in time. So, please get back* to me as soon as
you can, if you are interested in being part of it. Thank you very much!
(*Great news: So did Tamara! She intends to participate this time.)
May 5, 2012:
Is this the rarest Ray Conniff record? It seems, I am the only person in the world who owns a copy of it.
(About twenty years ago I was lucky enough to find it at a wonderful second-hand record store in Los
Angeles, named “A1 Record Finders”.) Here is information on it: The American Heritage Foundation /
The Adverstising Council, Inc. / PUBLIC SERVICES JINGLES / Created by Foote, Cone & Belding
(Chicago) for the “Give, Register and Vote” campaign. 7” record, 45 rpm / J8OH-4652 / Cut 1 and 4 (1
minute jingle), cut 2 and 5 (30 sec. jingle), cut 3 and 6 (20 sec. jingle), both sides identical, which
means that each jingle is four times on the record.
RAY CONNIFF and his Orchestra and Chorus
Produced by the Radio Corporation of America RCA Victor Record Division in cooperation with The
American Heritage Foundation and The Advertising Council.
By the way, the recording was made on April 7, 1958, a month after the recordings for “’s Awful Nice”. It
appeared in Ray’s diaries under the title 'Now Is The Time To Come To The Aid Of The Party'. If you
would like to listen to the long jingle, click here. I thought it quite appropriate for election year 2012.
April 14, 2012:
Did you see that wonderful movie “The Help”? If you did, you may have realised that right in its middle,
Ray Conniff and the Singers’ rendition of “The Little Drummer Boy” is played in the background. Ray is
mentioned in the final credits of the movie, but unfortunately, the track is not included in the soundtrack
album.
April 5, 2012:
Listen to two rare songs by Ray Conniff and the Singers, which were released on a single in 1972, “We
Must Forget We Ever Met” and “Where Were You”, and at the same time watch Jorge Carpes’ Ray
Conniff LP collection by clicking on the screen shot on the left.
March 21, 2012:
Of the 119 videos by Ray that I uploaded to YouTube, “Brazil” is his most popular one. In early March it
exceeded the million mark. All in all, my Ray Conniff videos have been watched 7,278,614 times (as of
today). The total number of subscribers is 1162.
March 15/24 /
April 4, 2012:
January 27, 2012:
January 24, 2012:
January 11, 2012:
January 5, 2012:
January 1, 2012:
October 12, 2012:
October 5 /
November 5, 2012:
“The Collector’s Guide” is a downloadable pdf-file (5.3 MB) of 175 pages. Its six parts were updated
as follows: The Big Band Years, part 1 (pages 1-22): July 12, 2011, part 2 (pages 23-40): July 28,
2011; The Columbia Years, part 1 (pages 41-86): Oct. 22, 2012, part 2 (pages 87-123): September 3,
2012, part 3 (pages 124-150): November 5, 2012; Recordings for various labels (pages 151-175):
August 24, 2012.
Ten years ago today, Ray Conniff passed away. However, his music lives on because of
you, the loyal fans. Click here or on the picture on the left for a collection of articles from
around the world published in 2002 to commemorate him.
October 16, 2012:
Shown on television in Paraguay on
Saturday, October 13, and now
available on YouTube a clip titled
Recordando éxitos de Ray Conniff,
which features “Besame Mucho”
from his “Musik für Millionen”-show.
Thanks to Jorge Puig for uploading
the clip.
November 6, 2012:
Today, Ray Conniff would have celebrated his 96th birthday.
Let’s keep his memory and his music alive!
Besides, it is with great joy to inform you, the loyal fans, that
Jorge L. D. Iório’s “Lyrics Page” is online again. He invested a
lot of time and effort to recreate most of the lost files. His work
has not been completely finished, but I am sure you will
appreciate the pages completed so far. Thanks a lot, Jorge. In
order to get to his page, click on the link in the menu above or
on the screenshot on the right.
November 14, 2012:
Published today: “360 Sound: The Columbia Records Story”. Doug wrote, “It is
a great coffee table book with hundreds of photos dating back to the late
1800s. It looks like an interesting read that will complement, but not replace,
“The Label” and Clive Davis’ book. There is a small photo of Ray at the piano
that I had not seen before (from the same photo session as the back cover of ‘s
Awful Nice). He receives a complimentary footnote for the Mathis and Robbins
recordings and his first use of “the singers” is mentioned. That’s about it. Percy
Faith receives even less attention.My expectations were a bit higher; I had
hoped for at least a couple of paragraphs about both Conniff and Faith. A lot of
space was devoted to artists whose overall contributions and longevity with the
company were significantly less. I’m not surprised, just disappointed.” For the
De Luxe-edition click here.
November 22, 2012:
This photograph may look familiar to the participants of the 2011 Fan Club
Convention in Vienna, for which I scanned it from a BBC documentary about
Easy Listening Music. Now it is shown on the Sony Legacy website,
advertising Ray’s first two Christmas albums. Unfortunately, the photograph is
reversed there. Click on the photo on the left for enlargement.
December 6, 2012:
Click on the cover scan of Ray Conniff’s 4th Christmas album to listen to
Christmas greetings from Ray (recorded in 1962).
“Los Que Triunfaron” is the title of a 2-CD set to be released on December 18, 2012 (according to
Amazon). However, this is a compilation from Spain, originally released in 2003. For details, click
here. Not really a must for your collection...
December 15, 2012:
December 21, 2012:
Re: Doug Mitchell’s original Ray Conniff Page
This site is being scrapped! Doug has chosen Drupal, an open source content management system,
for the new site. He'll be working on the new site over the next couple of months.
The static html pages will be moved to their new Linux host sometime before January 1. There may
be a brief downtime while the rayconniff.info DNS name is reconfigured. He has temporarily removed
his contact page as some email may be lost during the migration.
December 25, 2012:
This is my Christmas gift to all loyal Ray Conniff fans: Click on the screen shot on the
left in order to get to a new subpage, where you can find quite a few thumbnails of
photographs many of you may not have seen before. Once you click on any of the
thumbnails, a slide show will start, showing you each picture for 10 seconds. Most of
these pictures are from slides that I found in my collection. Please bookmark that
page and visit it often, because there’s more to come. Merry Christmas, everybody!
Manfred
To be released on February 20, 2012, a
2 CD set titled “All Or Nothing At All”.
This set features 4 of Ray Conniff’s
albums: “Young at Heart” and
“Somebody Loves Me” (Ray Conniff
Singers), and “Say It WIth Music” and
“Memories Are Made of This” (Orchestra
and Chorus), plus 5 bonus tracks from
“It’s the Talk of the Town”, 2 from
“Hollywood in Rhythm”, and one from
“Concert in Rhythm, Vol. II”. Also
available as an mp3 download. Click on
the cover scan on the left for more
details.
The Ray
Conniff
Singers with
Jerry Lewis?
Click on the
photo on the
right for
enlargement
and try to find
out the names
of the singers
shown together with Jerry Lewis (right). Clearly identifiable are
Jay Meyer and Vangie Carmichael. But what about the
others? Perry La Marca wrote on March 24, “The man on the
far right is Thurl Ravenscroft and the woman in the white suit
is Jackie Ward.” On April 4, Perry added, “After a little
research, I think the album may be a little too early for Jackie
Ward. The woman in the white suit is, I believe, Loulie Jean
Norman (they look somewhat familiar from a distance...). A lot
of the other singers also look very familiar (Verne Rowe, Jack
Halloran, etc.), but it's a bit hard to tell. However, I think if you
look at the back cover of Ray's "Speak To Me Of Love" album,
it may lend some clues.” Thanks, Perry!
This picture is from the cover of an album titled “The Jerry
Lewis Singers: ‘Yesterday’ And Other Folk Rock Hits”. It is
a collector’s item that I could add to my collection recently,
thanks to my friend Warren.
•
Downloadable compilations are now listed on a separate
page.
•
Some of the fan club magazines (“’s Conniff”), and
articles from “Conniff and Rhythm”, are available again
as pdf-files, some of them also as “flip or e-papers”. For
details click here. (Latest upload: July 18, 2012)
•
Quite a few Ray Conniff-related clips / collages have
been uploaded onto YouTube recently by Jorge Carpes
from Brazil. Click here for an overview.
•
I am sorry to say that Jorge L. D. Iorio’s “The Lyrics
Page” is out of operation for the time being. (See entry
of Aug. 25!)
August 25, 2012:
Jorge Iório’s Lyrics Page will become available again at
http://www.connifflyrics.com.br/ soon. Due to serious computer
problems, most files of the lyrics are lost. If you downloaded
and saved some of them, you are kindly requested to send
them to me.
July 29, 2012:
“The Collector’s Guide” updated! Many names of musicians
and singers added (sources: program booklets). You can
download separate parts or a single file (175 pages).
July 19, 2012:
Recent discoveries on YouTube:
•
A video of Ray’s rendition of “Brazil” at the
Viña del
Mar-Festival
in Chile in1981. Previous uploads of this
were incomplete.
•
...and (if you’re ready for some fun) a parody of Ray
Conniff, his Orchestra and Singers.
July 12, 2012
(updated
August 15):
Fans discovered a couple of DVDs by Ray in Brazil. It seems,
these are bootlegs. One of them obviously features a
collection of clips downloaded from YouTube, another one
features his free open air concert at Villa Lobos Park (as
broadcast on DirecTV in 1999), and a third one appears to be
a copy of the DVD from Sony Mexico, originally titled “Las
Números Uno”. For details, please click on the picture on the
left, which will take you to the DVD page. Scroll down the
page for cover scans, links and further information.
June 26/
July 7, 2012:
June 9, 2012:
Interested in Ray Conniff’s
Quadraphonic albums? For details go to
The Collector’s Guide and study its last
pages. Ray Conniff wrote special
arrangements for Quad recordings. All
about Quad can be found here (a
Wikipedia entry).
May 21, 2012:
Almost all clips from Ray Conniff’s performance at the Viña
del Mar-Festival, Chile (February 9 and 10, 1979) are now
available in fine quality and in colour on YouTube:
Somewhere My Love (Sing-Along), Paloma Blanca, Brazil
and If You Leave Me Now. Besame Mucho is incomplete, and
still missing is Hello Dolly. Among the singers is Jackie Allen.
For the "Somewhere My Love"-Sing Along, Tamara and Vera
join Ray on stage. Ray was given the "Gaviota" (=seagull)
award onstage (see photo on the left). One of the photos
taken during this ceremony became the cover photo of his
1980 album "Exclusivamente Latino".
May 6/13, 2012
(details updated
August 9, 2012!):
We are already in the preparation stage for the 2013 Ray
Conniff Fan Club Convention, which will take place in
Belgium from September 13 to 16. The fans will be
accommodated in Brussels, and a day trip to Bruges is
planned, too. For details please click here.
September 2013 seems to be ages away from today, but in
order to make reservations for a group of around 50 people or
more, it is advisable to plan ahead in time. So, please get
back* to me as soon as you can, if you are interested in being
part of it. Thank you very much!
(*Great news: So did Tamara! She intends to participate this
time.)
May 5, 2012:
Is this the rarest Ray Conniff record? It seems, I am the only
person in the world who owns a copy of it. (About twenty years
ago I was lucky enough to find it at a wonderful second-hand
record store in Los Angeles, named “A1 Record Finders”.)
Here is information on it: The American Heritage Foundation /
The Adverstising Council, Inc. / PUBLIC SERVICES JINGLES
/ Created by Foote, Cone & Belding (Chicago) for the “Give,
Register and Vote” campaign. 7” record, 45 rpm / J8OH-4652 /
Cut 1 and 4 (1 minute jingle), cut 2 and 5 (30 sec. jingle), cut 3
and 6 (20 sec. jingle), both sides identical, which means that
each jingle is four times on the record.
RAY CONNIFF and his Orchestra and Chorus
Produced by the Radio Corporation of America RCA Victor
Record Division in cooperation with The American Heritage
Foundation and The Advertising Council.
By the way, the recording was made on April 7, 1958, a month
after the recordings for “’s Awful Nice”. It appeared in Ray’s
diaries under the title 'Now Is The Time To Come To The Aid
Of The Party'. If you would like to listen to the long jingle, click
here. I thought it quite appropriate for election year 2012.
April 14, 2012:
Did you see that wonderful movie “The Help”? If you did, you
may have realised that right in its middle, Ray Conniff and the
Singers’ rendition of “The Little Drummer Boy” is played in the
background. Ray is mentioned in the final credits of the movie,
but unfortunately, the track is not included in the soundtrack
album.
April 5, 2012:
Listen to two rare songs by Ray Conniff
and the Singers, which were released on
a single in 1972, “We Must Forget We
Ever Met” and “Where Were You”, and at
the same time watch Jorge Carpes’ Ray
Conniff LP collection by clicking on the
screen shot on the left.
March 21, 2012:
Of the 119 videos by Ray that I uploaded to YouTube, “Brazil”
is his most popular one. In early March it exceeded the million
mark. All in all, my Ray Conniff videos have been watched
7,278,614 times (as of today). The total number of subscribers
is 1162.
March 15/24 /
April 4, 2012:
January 27, 2012:
October 12, 2012:
October 5 /
November 5, 2012:
“The Collector’s Guide” is a downloadable pdf-file (5.3 MB)
of 175 pages. Its six parts were updated as follows: The Big
Band Years, part 1 (pages 1-22): July 12, 2011, part 2 (pages
23-40): July 28, 2011; The Columbia Years, part 1 (pages
41-86): Oct. 22, 2012, part 2 (pages 87-123): September 3,
2012, part 3 (pages 124-150): November 5, 2012;
Recordings for various labels (pages 151-175): August 24,
2012.
Ten years ago today, Ray Conniff passed
away. However, his music lives on because
of you, the loyal fans. Click here or on the
picture on the left for a collection of articles
from around the world published in 2002 to
commemorate him.
October 16, 2012:
Shown on television in Paraguay on Saturday, October 13,
and now available on YouTube a clip titled Recordando
éxitos de Ray Conniff, which features “Besame Mucho” from
his “Musik für Millionen”-show. Thanks to Jorge Puig for
uploading the clip.
November 6, 2012:
Today, Ray Conniff would have celebrated his 96th birthday.
Let’s keep his memory and his music alive!
Besides, it is with great joy to inform you, the loyal fans, that
Jorge L. D. Iório’s “Lyrics Page” is online again. He invested a
lot of time and effort to recreate most of the lost files. His work
has not been completely finished, but I am sure you will
appreciate the pages completed so far. Thanks a lot, Jorge. In
order to get to his page, click on the link in the menu above or
on the screenshot on the right.
November 14, 2012:
Published today: “360 Sound: The Columbia Records Story”.
Doug wrote, “It is a great coffee table book with hundreds of
photos dating back to the late 1800s. It looks like an interesting
read that will complement, but not replace, “The Label” and
Clive Davis’ book. There is a small photo of Ray at the piano
that I had not seen before (from the same photo session as the
back cover of ‘s Awful Nice). He receives a complimentary
footnote for the Mathis and Robbins recordings and his first
use of “the singers” is mentioned. That’s about it. Percy Faith
receives even less attention.My expectations were a bit higher;
I had hoped for at least a couple of paragraphs about both
Conniff and Faith. A lot of space was devoted to artists whose
overall contributions and longevity with the company were
significantly less. I’m not surprised, just disappointed.” For the
De Luxe-edition click here.
November 22, 2012:
This photograph may look familiar
to the participants of the 2011
Fan Club Convention in Vienna,
for which I scanned it from a BBC
documentary about Easy
Listening Music. Now it is shown
on the Sony Legacy website,
advertising Ray’s first two
Christmas albums. Unfortunately,
the photograph is reversed there.
Click on the photo on the left for
enlargement.
December 6, 2012:
Click on the cover scan of Ray
Conniff’s 4th Christmas album to listen
to Christmas greetings from Ray
(recorded in 1962).
“Los Que Triunfaron” is the title of a 2-CD set to be released
on December 18, 2012 (according to Amazon). However, this
is a compilation from Spain, originally released in 2003. For
details, click here. Not really a must for your collection...
December 15, 2012:
December 21, 2012:
Re: Doug Mitchell’s original Ray Conniff Page
This site is being scrapped! Doug has chosen Drupal, an
open source content management system, for the new site.
He'll be working on the new site over the next couple of
months.
The static html pages will be moved to their new Linux host
sometime before January 1. There may be a brief downtime
while the rayconniff.info DNS name is reconfigured. He has
temporarily removed his contact page as some email may be
lost during the migration.
December 25, 2012:
This is my Christmas gift to all loyal Ray Conniff fans: Click
on the screen shot below in order to get to a new subpage,
where you can find quite a few thumbnails of photographs
many of you may not have seen before. Once you click on
any of the thumbnails, a slide show will start, showing you
each picture for 10 seconds. Most of these pictures are
from slides that I found in my collection. Please bookmark
that page and visit it often, because there’s more to come.
Merry Christmas, everybody! Manfred
’S WONDERFUL!
The Ray Conniff Page
A very happy New Year to all the fans of Ray Conniff and his
music around the world! Please note that I archived last year’s
news and that of previous years. Please use the buttons
above.
January 1, 2012:
Re-issues on the Blue Moon label:
Doug Mitchell wrote, “They went to great effort to reproduce
the detail of the back covers (notes and photos). The text has
been either reproduced with original fonts or scanned and
carefully altered so that they do not show ads for Ray's other
albums or any Columbia markings. The text is very clean. The
photos are great. It's nice to see the entire Say It With Music
cover reproduced. Memories is better than the USA CD but still
doesn't show as much of the photo as the Lp. The sound all
appears to have been taken from USA or UK reissues.
Hollywood is from Collectables (which is slightly different than
the Columbia CD). The channels are reversed on Memories.
Talk Of The Town appears to be from the UK CD and I think 's
Awful Nice may be from UK also. Upon first listening,
Broadway didn't sound exactly like the USA reissue but it is not
the UK mix. If these are "unofficial" reissues, it is strange that
they put so much effort into the packaging. They are really well
done. I can't believe the attention to detail. I plan to buy more
as they become available.” The next ones will be released at
the end of January 2012. They are “’s Continental” & “So Much
in Love”, and “Young at Heart” & “Somebody Loves Me”. For
further information on their previous releases go to 2011 News
Archive.
January 5, 2012:
Ardent Ray Conniff fan Igor from
Moscow, Russia, recently discovered an
interview with Ray on the website of the
Hamilton College Library Digital
Collections. It was conducted on
February 14, 1998, by Monk Rowe,
director of the Hamilton College Jazz
Archive. Click on the picture on the left to
get to the website, from which you can
also download the transcript of the
interview (pdf-document, 23 pages).
Thanks a lot, Igor!
January 11, 2012:
Haven’t you ever wondered what kind
of device Ray Conniff purchased for $
1.00 that taught him how to arrange
songs? He mentioned “The Lightning
Arranger” quite often in interviews - e.g.
in the one mentioned below (see entry
of January 11, 2012). Doug Mitchell
conducted some research on the
internet and came across the
advertisement on the right as well as an
article about its inventor. Very
interesting! Thanks a lot, Doug!
January 24, 2012:
’S WONDERFUL!
The Ray Conniff Page
