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Ray Conniff
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Conniff was born in Attleboro, Massachusetts, and learned to play the trombone from his father. He studied music arranging from a course book. Early career After serving in the U.S. Army in World War II (where he worked under Walter Schumann), he joined the Artie Shaw big band and wrote many arrangements for him. After his stint with Shaw, he was then hired by Mitch Miller, then head of A&R at Columbia Records, as their home arranger, working 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, a single that sold more than a million copies
Musicals In Rhythm - Hollywood & Broadway
By Ray Conniff
Label: Abracadabra Music
Released: 2010
Yeahwon Shin: Yeahwon
by Ernest Barteldes
On her debut recording, New York-based Korean singer Yeahwon Shin takes on a demanding set of tunes, mostly based on compositions by Brazilian songwriters Antonio Carlos Jobim, Dorival Caymmi, Egberto Gismonti, Milton Nascimento and Ary Barroso. She opens with Chovendo Na Roseira" (known in English as Double Rainbow"), singing in Portuguese with an original arrangement loosely ...
Ray Conniff Plays The Bee Gees & Other Great Hits / I Will Survive
By Ray Conniff
Label: Abracadabra Music
Released: 2008
Great Contemporary Instrumental Hits / I'd Like To Teach The World To Sing
By Ray Conniff
Label: Abracadabra Music
Released: 2002
Broadway In Rhythm / Hollywood In Rhythm
By Ray Conniff
Label: Abracadabra Music
Released: 2000