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Ray Conniff

Title: S Marvelous + Memories are Made of This

Label: Blue Moon

Cat No:BMCD821
Format:CD

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• This release, the second of four newly remastered Ray Conniff reissues on the Blue Moon label, presents two complete, original albums on one CD : his third Columbia album : ‘S Marvelous’ (1957) and his 14th Columbia album ‘Memories Are Made of This’ (1960). With deluxe, gatefold sleeves and original period artwork.

• ‘S Marvelous’ was in one sense a natural sequel to his 1956 ‘S Wonderful’ album, but the music is somewhat moodier and the arrangements more subtle, yet it has the same irresistible beat and imaginative use of wordless voices. The 12 songs he selected for ‘Memories Are Made of This’ were some of the biggest hits of the ‘50s.

• Conniff endowed dance music with a tantalising beat, a new sound and some very stylish arrangements, featuring his famous wordless vocal choruses - thus developing one of the freshest ideas in popular music since the early ‘40s.

• Ray Conniff began his career as a jazz trombone player, serving time in the bands of Bunny Berigan and Bob Crosby in the late 1940s and early ‘50s. In 1954, he was hired by Columbia Records as an arranger by Mitch Miller, leading to work as an in-house arranger for many artists and releases on that label, before forming his own orchestra in 1955.

Track Listing for S Marvelous + Memories are Made of This
RAY CONNIFF AND HIS ORCHESTRA
‘S MARVELOUS
1. The Way You Look Tonight (Fields-Kern) 3:06
2. I Hear a Rhapsody (Fragos-Baker-Gasparre) 2:16
3. They Can’t Take That Away from Me (I. & G. Gershwin) 3:01
4. Moonlight Serenade (Miller-Parish) 2:45
5. I Love You (Cole-Porter) 3:25
6. I’ve Told Ev’ry Little Star (Hammerstein II-Kern) 2:51
7. You Do Something to Me (Cole Porter) 2:35
8. As Time Goes By (Herman Hupfeld) 2:56
9. In the Still of The Night (Cole Porter) 2:59
10. Someone to Watch Over Me (I. & G. Gershwin) 2:55
11. Be My Love (Cahn-Brodszky) 3:08
12. Where or When (Hart-Rodgers) 3:17

RAY CONNIFF HIS ORCHESTRA AND CHORUS
MEMORIES ARE MADE OF THIS
13. Memories Are Made of This (Gilkyson-Miller-Dehr) 2:30
14. Tammy (Livingston-Evans) 2:14
15. Young Love (Joyner-Cartey) 3:15
16. Three Coins in the Fountain (Cahn-Styne) 3:01
17. Moments to Remember (Stillman-Allen) 2:57
18. My Foolish Heart (Washington-Young) 3:12
19. Love Me Tender (Presley-Matson) 2:22
20. Around the World (Adamson-Young) 2:40
21. Love Letters in the Sand (Kenny-Kenny-Coots) 2:22
22. Unchained Melody (Zaret-North) 2:35
23. Only You (And You Alone) (Ram-Rand) 2:41
24. No Other Love (Hammerstein II-Rodgers) 2:33

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Ray Conniff

S Wonderful! + It's the Talk of the Town

S Marvelous + Memories are Made of This

S Awful Nice + Say it with Music

Hollywood in Rhythm + Broadway in Rhythm

S Continental + So Much In Love