Ray Conniff - The Ray Conniff Hi Fi Companion '1960; 2020

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Album name	The Ray Conniff Hi Fi Companion
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Date	1960; 2020
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â€œIf you believe in your art, and you love what you do, that energy will go
out, and people will respond.â€ Ray Conniff

One of the best trombonists of the big band era â€“ he played with Bunny
Berigan and Artie Shaw â€“ Ray Conniff burst onto the 1950s scene with
recordings based on the tonal combination of mixed choir with the swing of the
big band. This blend of musical colours and textures â€“ womenâ€™s
voices and trumpets, menâ€™s voices and trombones â€“ was organised
with a geometric precision and really caught the public ear. His debut album
â€œâ€˜S Wonderfulâ€, inhabited the USA Top 20 for nine months.

His breakthrough had come in 1956, with his arrangement for Don Cherryâ€™s
hit ballad â€˜Band Of Gold.â€™ Conniff substituted a chorus of voices
for a string section; they were wordless, purely instrumental, smooth, and an
instant success. He went on to arrange many hits for the likes of Guy Mitchell,
Marty Robbins, Johnnie Ray and Rosemary Clooney before Columbia gave him the
chance to record with his own orchestra.

Conniff, in fact, founded two groups: his â€œOrchestra and Chorusâ€ and
his â€œSingers.â€ The former was a typical big band line-up of saxes,
trumpets, trombones, and rhythm section and a chorus of four men and four women.
The latter was a chorus of 25 singers â€“ 12 women and 13 men â€“ with
minimal instrumental backing.

Originally released as a double album in 1958, â€œHi-Fi Companionâ€ is
a perfect little mid-century time capsule, a hip, swinging, urban, yet
reassuring showcase of vintage Conniff and his inimitable arrangements of some
of the most popular songs of the era.

It has been said that If Mantovani is the epitome of elevator music, Ray Conniff
is the epitome of super-market music. For the public who would buy 70 million
copies of his albums and give him 25 straight Top 40 LPs during the 1950s and
1960s, the â€œRay Conniff Soundâ€ defined easy-listening; a phenomenon
which became a fixed star on the horizon of pop music.

Tracklist:
01. Ray Conniff - You Do Something To Me (Remastered) (2:47)
02. Ray Conniff - They Cant Take That Away From Me (Remastered) (3:15)
03. Ray Conniff - Hello Young Lovers (Remastered) (3:06)
04. Ray Conniff - Where Or When? (Remastered) (3:31)
05. Ray Conniff - All The Things You Are (Remastered) (2:36)
06. Ray Conniff - People Will Say Were In Love (Remastered) (3:01)
07. Ray Conniff - On The Street Where You Live (Remastered) (2:02)
08. Ray Conniff - Moonlight Serenade (Remastered) (3:00)
09. Ray Conniff - The Way You Look Tonight (Remastered) (3:22)
10. Ray Conniff - As Time Goes By (Remastered) (2:54)
11. Ray Conniff - Smoke Gets In Your Eyes (Remastered) (2:46)
12. Ray Conniff - Lullaby Of Birdland (Remastered) (2:20)
13. Ray Conniff - Cheek To Cheek (Remastered) (2:53)
14. Ray Conniff - Thanks For The Memory (Remastered) (2:33)
15. Ray Conniff - Easy To Love (Remastered) (2:50)
16. Ray Conniff - Laura (Remastered) (3:10)
17. Ray Conniff - It Might As Well Be Spring (Remastered) (2:48)
18. Ray Conniff - Warsaw Concerto (Remastered) (3:02)
19. Ray Conniff - I Could Have Danced All Night (Remastered) (2:44)
20. Ray Conniff - Liebestraum Improvisation (Remastered) (2:43)
21. Ray Conniff - On Dance Of The Sugar-Plum Fairy (Remastered) (2:52)
22. Ray Conniff - Young At Heart (Remastered) (2:34)
23. Ray Conniff - In The Still Of The Night (Remastered) (3:13)
24. Ray Conniff - Ill See You Again (Remastered) (2:40)

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