Joseph Raymond Conniff (November 6, 1916 – October 12, 2002) was an American musician. He was born in Attleboro, Massachusetts, and learned to play the trombone from his father. He studied music arranging from a course book. After serving in the U.S.

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  • Joseph Raymond Conniff (November 6, 1916 – October 12, 2002) was an American musician. He was born in Attleboro, Massachusetts, and learned to play the trombone from his father. He studied music arranging from a course book. After serving in the U.S. Army in World War II (where he worked under Walter Schumann), he was hired by Mitch Miller, then head of A & R at Columbia Records as their home arranger, and he worked with several artists, including Rosemary Clooney, Marty Robbins, Frankie Laine, Johnny Mathis, Guy Mitchell and Johnnie Ray. He wrote a top 10 arrangement for Don Cherry's "Band of Gold" in 1955. This was a single that sold more than a million copies. Amongst the hit singles he backed with his orchestra (and eventually with a male chorus) were "Yes Tonight Josephine" and "Just Walkin' in the Rain" by Johnnie Ray; "Chances Are" and "It's Not for Me to Say" by Johnny Mathis; "A White Sport Coat" and "The Hanging Tree" by Marty Robbins; "Moonlight Gambler" by Frankie Leine; "Up Above My Head," a duet by Frankie Laine and Johnnie Ray; and "Pet Me, Poppa" by Rosemary Clooney. He also backed up the albums Tony by Tony Bennett, Blue Swing by Eileen Rodgers, Swingin' for Two by Don Cherry, and half the tracks of The Big Beat by Johnnie Ray. In these early years he also produced some similar sounding records for Columbia's Epic label under the name of Jay Raye (which stands for "Joseph Raymond") amongst them a backing album and singles with Somethin' Smith and the Redheads, an American male vocal group. Because of the success of his backings Mitch Miller allowed him to make his own record, and this became the successful 'S Wonderful, a collection of standards that were recorded with an orchestra and a wordless singing chorus (four men, four women). He released many more albums in the same vein, including Dance The Bop (1957) (a story follows about that album), S Marvelous, S Awful Nice (1958), Concert in Rhythm (1958, gold album), Hollywood in Rhythm (1958), Broadway in Rhythm (1959), and Concert in Rhythm, Volume II (1959, gold album). The 1957 album Dance the Bop was an experiment by one of the brass at Columbia to cash in on a conceived dance step creation, but Ray didn't like it from the outset, and when it sold poorly, Ray had it pulled off the market. In 1959 he started the Ray Conniff Singers (12 women and 13 men) and released the album 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 title track of the album was written to the music of "Lara's Theme" from the film Doctor Zhivago, and was a top 10 single in the US. The album also reached the US top 20 and went platinum, and Conniff won a Grammy. The single and album reached high positions in the international charts (a.o. Australia, Germany, Great Britain, Japan) as well. Also extraordinarily successful was the first of four Christmas albums by the Singers, Christmas with Conniff (1959). Nearly fifty years after its release, in 2004, Conniff was posthumously awarded with a platinum album/CD. Musically different highlights in Conniff's career are two albums he produced in cooperation with Billy Butterfield, an old buddy 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. Later in the 1960s he produced an average of two instrumental and one vocal album a year. Among these are (Original albums only):
  • Ray Conniff war ein US-amerikanischer Komponist, Arrangeur, Orchesterleiter und Posaunist.
  • Joseph Raymond Conniff, destacado músico, director de orquesta, arreglista vocal y musical, y trombonista estadounidense. Se caracterizó por emplear un coro acompañando a la orquesta que él formó.
  • Joseph Raymond "Ray" Conniff oli Grammy-palkittu yhdysvaltalainen muusikko. Hän syntyi Massachusettsissa ja oppi isältään pasuunansoiton taidon. Conniffin "löysi" Mitch Miller. Hän perusti vuonna 1959 kuuluisan lauluryhmänsä, joka levytti muun muassa hitin "Somewhere My Love". Ray Conniff Singersin ulkopuolella Conniff teki sovituksia ja säesti useiden muiden artistien tunnetuilla levytyksillä.
  • Ray Conniff était un chef d'orchestre et compositeur américain. On lui doit d'innombrables arrangements de mélodies classiques, contemporaines et de variété internationale interprétés par son orchestre et son chœur. Ce dernier double bien souvent la mélodie quand les paroles sont absentes. Dans ce cas, le chœur s'exprime en musant. Cette structure fait la particularité de la musique de Ray Conniff.
  • Ray Conniff was een Amerikaans muzikant en orkestdirigent. Hij leerde trombone spelen van zijn vader en muziek arrangeren met behulp van een cursus in een boek. Na zijn legerdienst in de Tweede Wereldoorlog werd hij aangenomen door het platenlabel Columbia als hun huisarrangeur, en hij werkte met diverse artiesten, waaronder Johnnie Ray, Rosemary Clooney, Guy Mitchell en Marty Robbins. In 1954 schreef hij een arrangement voor Don Cherry's Band Of Gold, waarvan miljoenen exemplaren werden verkocht. Hij kreeg hierdoor de kans om zijn eigen album te maken, en dit werd het succesvolle S Wonderful! - een collectie bekende nummers met een orkest en een refrein met slim gemixte stemmen zonder woorden die soms werden gebruikt als extra instrumenten. In dezelfde stijl bracht hij daarna S Marvellous en S Awful Nice uit. Tussen 1957 en 1968 had hij 28 albums in de Amerikaanse Top 40, waaronder Somewhere My Love waarvan miljoenen exemplaren werden verkocht. De titeltrack van het album (ook wel "Lara's Theme") was geschreven voor de film Doctor Zhivago, kwam ook in de singles top 10 terecht in de VS. In 1969 stond hij boven aan de album lijst in Groot-Brittannië met His Orchestra, His Chorus, His Singers, His Sound, en was in 1974 de eerste Amerikaanse populaire artiest die muziek opnam in Rusland: Hij maakte Ray Conniff in Moscow met medewerking van een lokaal koor. Zijn latere albums, waaronder Exclusivamente Latino, Amor Amor en Latinisimo maakten hem populair onder zijn grote Latijns-Amerikaanse aanhang. Hij verzorgde optredens tot aan zijn dood in oktober 2002.
  • Joseph Raymond "Ray" Conniff foi um músico norte-americano, considerado o rei do Easy Listening.
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  • Joseph Raymond Conniff (November 6, 1916 – October 12, 2002) was an American musician. He was born in Attleboro, Massachusetts, and learned to play the trombone from his father. He studied music arranging from a course book. After serving in the U.S.
  • Ray Conniff war ein US-amerikanischer Komponist, Arrangeur, Orchesterleiter und Posaunist.
  • Joseph Raymond Conniff, destacado músico, director de orquesta, arreglista vocal y musical, y trombonista estadounidense. Se caracterizó por emplear un coro acompañando a la orquesta que él formó.
  • Joseph Raymond "Ray" Conniff oli Grammy-palkittu yhdysvaltalainen muusikko. Hän syntyi Massachusettsissa ja oppi isältään pasuunansoiton taidon. Conniffin "löysi" Mitch Miller. Hän perusti vuonna 1959 kuuluisan lauluryhmänsä, joka levytti muun muassa hitin "Somewhere My Love". Ray Conniff Singersin ulkopuolella Conniff teki sovituksia ja säesti useiden muiden artistien tunnetuilla levytyksillä.
  • Ray Conniff était un chef d'orchestre et compositeur américain. On lui doit d'innombrables arrangements de mélodies classiques, contemporaines et de variété internationale interprétés par son orchestre et son chœur. Ce dernier double bien souvent la mélodie quand les paroles sont absentes. Dans ce cas, le chœur s'exprime en musant. Cette structure fait la particularité de la musique de Ray Conniff.
  • Ray Conniff was een Amerikaans muzikant en orkestdirigent. Hij leerde trombone spelen van zijn vader en muziek arrangeren met behulp van een cursus in een boek. Na zijn legerdienst in de Tweede Wereldoorlog werd hij aangenomen door het platenlabel Columbia als hun huisarrangeur, en hij werkte met diverse artiesten, waaronder Johnnie Ray, Rosemary Clooney, Guy Mitchell en Marty Robbins.
  • Joseph Raymond "Ray" Conniff foi um músico norte-americano, considerado o rei do Easy Listening.
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