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. Visitors since August 1, 2011: January 1, 2012: 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 5, 2012 (subject: 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 11, 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 24, 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 27, 2012: 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” and 3 from “Hollywood in Rhythm”. Click on the cover scan on the left for more details.