Ray Conniff - Masterworks - The 1955-62 Albums

MASTERWORKS

£28.01

Cat. no: 709
Format: CD7
Barcode: 8436539311522
Release Date: 4th June 2021
Genre: Easy Listening

14 classic albums by the great Ray Conniff across 7 CDs, on this box set that includes a 20-page booklet, which features original and updated liner notes, original cover art plus rare photos.

Ray Conniff (1916-2002) popularised wordless vocal choruses and light orchestral accompaniment on a mix of popular standards and contemporary hits of the 1960s. In the course of his extended career, he had 12 Top Ten LPs and sold well over 50 million albums, which cemented his status as one of the top album sellers of all time.

This collection presents 14 of Conniff’s best albums from his heyday, beginning in 1955, when he recorded his debut album for Columbia, ‘S Wonderful, to 1962, including the first of his stupendous collaborative LPs with trumpeter Billy Butterfield.

CD 1: ‘S Wonderful / Dancing in the Dark / Speak Low / Wagon Wheels / Sentimental Journey / Begin the Beguine / September Song / I Get a Kick Out of You / Stardust / I’m an Old Cowhand / Sometimes I’m Happy / That Old Black Magic / It’s the Talk of the Town / You’re an Old Smoothie / Buttons and Boys / Let’s Put Out the Lights / It’s Been a Long, Long Time / Zip-a-dee-doo-dah / Deep in the Heart of Texas / Love Is the Sweetest Thing / They Say It’s Wonderful / Hands Across the Table / My Heart Cries for You / Rosalie

CD 2: The Way You Look Tonight / I Hear a Rhapsody / They Can’t Take That Away from Me / Moonlight Serenade / I Love You / I’ve Told Every Little Star / You Do Something to Me / As Time Goes By / In the Still of the Night / Someone to Watch Over Me / Be My Love / Where Or When / Memories Are Made of This / Tammy / Young Love / Three Coins in the Fountain / Moments to Remember / My Foolish Heart / Love Me Tender / Around the World / Love Letters in the Sand / Unchained Melody / Only You (And You Alone) / No Other Love

CD 3: Love Is a Many Splendored Thing / Thanks for the Memory / Easy to Love / Pacific Sunset / Cheek to Cheek / My Heart Stood Still / Please / Love Letters / Laura / Stella By Starlight / Yesterdays / It Might As Well Be Spring / Oklahoma! / People Will Say We’re in Love / The Surrey With the Fringe On Top / Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin’ / Hello Young Lovers / Getting to Know You/I Whistle a Happy Tune / On the Street Where You Live / I Could Have Danced All Night/I’ve Grown Accustomed to Her Face / A Wonderful Guy / Bali Ha’i / Younger Than Springtime / Some Enchanted Evening

CD 4: Smoke Gets in Your Eyes / Lullaby of Birdland / June in January / I Cover the Waterfront / The Very Thought of You / It Had to Be You / Paradise / April in Paris / That Old Feeling / Say It Isn’t So / All the Things You Are / Lovely to Look At / Besame Mucho / Stranger in Paradise / Summertime / I’ve Got You Under My Skin / Too Young / Softly, As in a Morning Sunrise / Just One of Those Things / Deep Purple / Brazil / Night and Day / Temptation / Say It With Music

CD 5: Remember / You’ll Never Know / Dancing With Tears in My Eyes / I’m in the Mood for Love / I’ll Be Seeing You / It’s Dark On Observatory Hill / These Foolish Things (Remind Me of You) / Ma, He’s Making Eyes at Me / Young at Heart / If I Loved You / Harbor Lights / I’ll See You in My Dreams / Somebody Loves Me / Golden Earrings / You’re the ream in My Coffee / The Green Leaves of Summer / Don’t Fence Me In / I Only Have Eyes for You / The Thrill Is Gone / You’d Be So Nice to Come Home To / It Had to Be You / I Don’t Want to Set the World On Fire / Moon Song / All Or Nothing at All

CD 6: The Continental / The Whiffenpoof Song / Beyond the Sea (La Mer) / Swing Little Glow Worm / The Poor People of Paris / Strange Music / Tico-tico / The White Cliffs of Dover / African Safari / Morgen (One More Sunrise) / Lisbon Antigua / Green Eyes / Autumn Leaves/ Just Walking in the Rain / I Fall in Love Too Easily/My Heart Stood Still / Dancing On the Ceiling/ Dancing in the Dark / I Wish I Didn’t Love You So/Bewitched / Whatever Will Be, Will Be (Que Sera, Sera)/True Love / Chances Are/It’s Not for Me to Say

CD 7: Beyond the Blue Horizon / You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby / All the Things You Are / Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin’ in My Life / Time On My Hands (You in My Arms) / Something to Remember You By / What a Diff’rence a Day Made / South of the Border (Down Mexico Way) / Can’t We Be Friends? / Rosalie / A Love Is Born / I Found a Million Dollar Baby / Lady of Spain / Beautiful Love / Moonlight and Roses / Love Walked In / Our Waltz / I Concentrate On You / Take Me in Your Arms / Malague a / Imagination / Kiss of Fire / To My Love / My Romance