free download ray conniff christmas album Free download ray conniff christmas album. Completing the CAPTCHA proves you are a human and gives you temporary access to the web property. What can I do to prevent this in the future? If you are on a personal connection, like at home, you can run an anti-virus scan on your device to make sure it is not infected with malware. If you are at an office or shared network, you can ask the network administrator to run a scan across the network looking for misconfigured or infected devices. Another way to prevent getting this page in the future is to use Privacy Pass. You may need to download version 2.0 now from the Chrome Web Store. Cloudflare Ray ID: 66a5af8b9c1bf152 • Your IP : 188.246.226.140 • Performance & security by Cloudflare. Ray Conniff. 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. 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, 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; "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 & 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), "'S Marvelous" (1957, gold album), "'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). 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 of word? not just syllable ? singing singers 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 (1965), 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 posthumously was 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" (1960) featured Butterfield's solo trumpet and a small rhythm group; "Just Kiddin' Around" (after a Conniff original composition from the 1940's), released 1963, featured additional trombone solos by Ray himself. Both albums are pure light jazz and did not feature any vocals. Later in the 1960's he produced an average of two instrumental and one vocal album a year. Among these are (Original albums only): * "'s Wonderful" (1956) * "Dance the Bop!" (1957) * "'s Marvelous" (1957) * "'s Awful Nice" (1958) * "Concert in Rhythm, Vol.1" (1958) * "Broadway in Rhythm" (1958) * "Hollywood in Rhythm" (1958) * "It's The Talk of the Town" (1959) * "Conniff Meets Butterfield" (1959) * "Christmas with Conniff" (1959) * "Concert in Rhythm, Vol.2" (1959) * "Young at Heart" (1960) * "Say It with Music (A Touch of Latin)" (1960) * "Memories Are Made of This" (1960, gold album) * "Somebody Loves Me" (1961) * "'S Continental" (1961) * "So Much in Love" (1962, gold album) * "Rhapsody in Rhythm" (1962) * "We Wish You a Merry Christmas" (1962, gold album) * "The Happy Beat" (1962) * "You Make Me Feel So Young" (1963) * "Speak to Me of Love" (1963) * "Friendly Persuasion" (1964) * "Invisible Tears" (1964) * "Love Affair" (1965) * "Music From 'Mary Poppins', 'The Sound of Music', 'My Fair Lady' & Other Great Movie Themes" (1965) * "Here We Come A-Caroling" (1965) * "Happiness Is" (1965) * "Ray Conniff's World of Hits" (1966) * "En Espa?ol (The Ray Conniff Singers Sing It in Spanish)" (1966) * "This Is My Song" (1967) * "Ray Conniff's Hawaiian Album" (1967) * "It Must Be Him" (1967, gold album) * "Honey" (1968, gold album) * "Turn Around Look at Me" (1968) * "I Love How You Love Me" (1968) * "Live Europa Tournee 1969/Concert in Stereo" (1969) * "Jean" (1969) * "Concert In Stereo: Live At 'The Sahara Tahoe'" (1969) * "Bridge Over Troubled Water" (1970) * "We've Only Just Begun" (1970) * "Love Story" (1970) * "Great Contemporary Instrumental Hits" (1971) * "I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing" (1971) * "Love Theme from "The Godfather" (1972) * "Alone Again (Naturally)" (1972) * "I Can See Clearly Now" (1972) * "Ray Conniff in Britain" (1973) * "You Are the Sunshine of My Life" (1973) * "Harmony" (1973) * "The Way We Were" (1973) * "The Happy Sound of Ray Conniff" (1974) * "Ray Conniff In Moscow" (1974) * "Laughter in the Rain" (1975) * "Another Somebody Done Somebody Wrong Song" (1975) * "Love Will Keep Us Together" (1975) * "I Write the Songs" (1975) * "Live in Japan" (1975) * "Send in the Clowns" (1976) * "Theme from 'SWAT' and Other TV Themes" (1976) * "After the Lovin'" (1976) * "Exitos Latinos" (1977) * "Ray Conniff Plays the Bee Gees and Other Great Hits" (1978) * "I Will Survive" (1979) * "The Perfect '10' Classics" (1980) * "Exclusivamente Latino" (1980) * "Siempre Latino" (1981) * "The Nashville Connection" (1982) * "Musik f?r Millionen" (partly produced for a German TV show in 1982) * "Amor Amor" (1982) * "Fantastico" (1983) * "Supersonico" (1984) * "Campeones" (1985) * "Say You Say Me" (1986) * "30th Anniversary Edition" (1986) * "Always in My Heart" (1987) * "Interpreta 16 Exitos De Manuel Alejandro" (1988) * "Ray Conniff Plays Broadway" (1990) * "'S Always Conniff" (1991) * "Latinisimo" (1993) * "40th Anniversary" (1995) * "Live in Rio (aka Mi Historia)" (1997) * "I Love Movies" (1997) * "My Way" (1998) * "'S Country" (1999) * "'S Christmas" (1999) * "Do Ray Para O Rei" (2000). Between 1957 and 1968, he had 28 albums in the American Top 40, the most famous one being "Somewhere My Love" (1966). He topped the album list in Britain in 1969 with "His Orchestra, His Chorus, His Singers, His Sound". He also was the first American popular artist to record in Russia?in 1974 he recorded "Ray Conniff in Moscow" with the help of a local choir. His later albums like "Exclusivamente Latino", "Amor Amor" and "Latinisimo" made him very popular in Latin-American countries, even more so after performing in the Vi?a del Mar International Song Festival. In Brazil and Chile he was treated like a young pop superstar in the 1980s and 1990s when he was in his 70s and 80s. He even played live with his orchestra and eight-person chorus in large football stadiums as well as in Vi?a del Mar. Ray Conniff was a quiet, modest sympathetic artist. He always worked in the background so that in the fifties there were rumours that this man didn't even exist and his name was just a name fake as then his orchestral sound was so sensational. Nevertheless he sold about 70 million albums world-wide and continued recording and performing until his death in 2002. He died in Escondido, California, and is interred in the Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery in Los Angeles, California. In 2004, a memorial two-CD compilation set, "The Essential Ray Conniff", was released, featuring many rare and previously unreleased tracks. "The Singles Collection, Vol.1" was released on the Collectables label in 2005. This also features many rare tracks. Album artist 183 - Ray Conniff. This page lists the album chart runs of Ray Conniff. The albums are listed with the most widely successful first. # Artist Album Title Year Chart Entries 1 Ray Conniff Somewhere My Love 1966 US Platinum (certified by RIAA in Nov 1986), Billboard 3 - Jul 1966 (90 weeks) (17 weeks in top 10), Norway 3 - Jan 1967 (35 weeks), US BB 6 of 1966, US CashBox 24 of 1966, UK 34 - Sep 1967 (3 weeks) 2 Ray Conniff 's Marvelous 1958 US Gold (certified by RIAA in Jul 1962), UK EP 18 - Dec 1962, US BB 25 of 1959, US CashBox 32 of 1958, RYM 184 of 1957 3 Ray Conniff Memories Are Made Of This 1961 US Gold (certified by RIAA in Jul 1962), UK 14 - May 1961 (4 weeks), US CashBox 20 of 1961, US BB 25 of 1961 4 Ray Conniff Concert In Rhythm 1958 US Gold (certified by RIAA in Jul 1962), US CashBox 23 of 1958, US BB 31 of 1958, RYM 152 of 1958 5 Ray Conniff 's Wonderful! 1957 UK 18 - Dec 1962 (3 weeks), US BB 24 of 1957, US CashBox 28 of 1957 6 Ray Conniff S Awful Nice 1958 UK 13 - Jun 1960 (1 week), US BB 15 of 1958, US CashBox 29 of 1958 7 Ray Conniff So Much In Love 1962 US Gold (certified by RIAA in Dec 1962), US CashBox 42 of 1962, US BB 55 of 1962 8 Ray Conniff Hi- Fi Companion Album 1966 UK 3 - Nov 1960 (48 weeks), UK Gold (certified by BPI in Jan 1974), Norway 18 - Jan 1967 (2 weeks) 9 Ray Conniff We Wish You A Merry Christmas 1962 US Platinum (certified by RIAA in Nov 1989), UK 12 - Dec 1962 (1 week), RYM 131 of 1962 10 Ray Conniff Christmas With Conniff 1959 US Platinum (certified by RIAA in Oct 2004), US BB 53 of 1960, RYM 136 of 1959 11 Ray Conniff Honey 1968 US Gold (certified by RIAA in Dec 1969), Norway 14 - Oct 1968 (6 weeks), Billboard 22 - Jun 1968 (39 weeks) 12 Ray Conniff It Must Be Him 1968 US Gold (certified by RIAA in Mar 1969), Norway 16 - May 1968 (6 weeks), Billboard 25 - Feb 1968 (41 weeks) 13 Ray Conniff It's The Talk Of The Town 1960 UK 15 - May 1960 (1 week), US CashBox 33 of 1960 14 Ray Conniff Say It With Music (A Touch Of Latin) 1960 US CashBox 25 of 1961, US BB 40 of 1960 15 Ray Conniff Young at Heart 1960 US CashBox 26 of 1960, US BB 49 of 1961 16 Ray Conniff Concert In Rhythm, Volume II 1960 US CashBox 40 of 1960, US BB 52 of 1960 17 Ray Conniff This Is My Song 1967 Norway 4 - Sep 1967 (19 weeks), Billboard 30 - Jun 1967 (46 weeks) 18 Ray Conniff Invisible Tears 1964 Billboard 23 - Oct 1964 (27 weeks), US CashBox 81 of 1965 19 Ray Conniff Bridge Over Troubled Water 1970 UK 30 - May 1970 (14 weeks), Billboard 47 - Apr 1970 (28 weeks), UK Silver (certified by BPI in Jan 1974) 20 Ray Conniff Ray Conniff's Greatest Hits 1969 US Gold (certified by RIAA in Oct 2004), Billboard 158 - Jul 1969 (5 weeks) 21 Ray Conniff His Orchestra, His Chorus, His Singers, His Sound 1969 UK 1 - Jun 1969 (16 weeks) 22 Ray Conniff Love Story 1971 UK 34 - Jun 1971 (1 week), Billboard 98 - Mar 1971 (15 weeks) 23 Ray Conniff I'd Like To Teach The World To Sing 1972 UK 17 - Feb 1972 (4 weeks), Billboard 138 - Feb 1972 (11 weeks) 24 Ray Conniff Harmony 1973 UK 24 - Oct 1973 (4 weeks), Billboard 194 - Oct 1973 (4 weeks) 25 Ray Conniff Conniff Meets Butterfield 1960 US BB 55 of 1960 26 Ray Conniff Broadway In Rhythm 1961 US BB 46 of 1961 27 Ray Conniff Happy Beat 1963 US CashBox 47 of 1963 28 Ray Conniff 's Continental 1962 US CashBox 43 of 1962 29 Ray Conniff Somebody Loves Me 1961 US BB 64 of 1961 30 Ray Conniff Just Kiddin' Around 1963 Billboard 85 - Sep 1963 (10 weeks) 31 Ray Conniff Speak To Me Of Love 1964 Billboard 50 - May 1964 (19 weeks) 32 Ray Conniff You Make Me Feel So Young 1964 Billboard 73 - Feb 1964 (17 weeks) 33 Ray Conniff Moon River 1979 ODK Germany 11 - Nov 1979 (11 weeks), Germany 11 - Nov 1979 (4 weeks) 34 Ray Conniff Music From Mary Poppins, The Sound Of Music, My Fair Lady, & Other Great Mo 1965 Billboard 34 - Jun 1965 (19 weeks) 35 Ray Conniff Love Affair 1965 Billboard 54 - Sep 1965 (16 weeks) 36 Ray Conniff Friendly Persuasion 1965 Billboard 141 - Apr 1965 (5 weeks) 37 Ray Conniff Happiness Is 1966 Billboard 80 - Apr 1966 (9 weeks) 38 Ray Conniff Hawaiian Album 1967 Billboard 39 - Oct 1967 (15 weeks) 39 Ray Conniff Ray Conniff's World Of Hits 1967 Billboard 78 - Mar 1967 (10 weeks) 40 Ray Conniff En Espanol! 1967 Billboard 180 - May 1967 (2 weeks) 41 Ray Conniff Turn Around Look At Me 1968 Billboard 70 - Oct 1968 (22 weeks) 42 Ray Conniff I Love How You Love Me 1969 Billboard 101 - Mar 1969 (14 weeks) 43 Ray Conniff Jean 1969 Billboard 103 - Dec 1969 (21 weeks) 44 Ray Conniff We've Only Just Begun 1970 Billboard 120 - Dec 1970 (13 weeks) 45 Ray Conniff Concert In Stereo/Live At The Sahara/Tahoe 1970 Billboard 177 - Sep 1970 (5 weeks) 46 Ray Conniff Claire 1973 UK 39 - Feb 1973 (2 weeks) 47 Ray Conniff I Can See Clearly Now 1973 Billboard 165 - Feb 1973 (10 weeks) 48 Ray Conniff You Are The Sunshine Of My Life 1973 Billboard 176 - Jul 1973 (5 weeks) 49 Ray Conniff Great Contemporary Instrumental Hits 1971 Billboard 185 - Sep 1971 (5 weeks) 50 Ray Conniff Love Theme From 'The Godfather' 1972 Billboard 114 - Jun 1972 (14 weeks) 51 Ray Conniff Alone Again, Naturally 1972 Billboard 180 - Oct 1972 (10 weeks) 52 Ray Conniff Collection 1976 UK Silver (certified by BPI in Dec 1977) 53 Ray Conniff The Essential 2004 Norway 29 - Oct 2004 (2 weeks) 54 Ray Conniff Merry Christmas To All unknown US Platinum (certified by RIAA in Mar 1992) Previous Comments (newest first) did ray do this song?? +Call me. 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