Ray Conniff

All kinds of tricks here.

And they were done by producer Neely Plum, who had worked with Ray Conniff.

Yeah, Neely Plum.

Jesus Christ.

Yeah.

It's all coming together.

Neely plum had worked with Ray Conniff and Judy Garland.

Uh, he's definitely more of a Hollywood guy.

Hedrum here.

Hi, this is Ray Conniff wishing everyone a Merry Christmas and a very Happy New Year.

This is Paul Simon wishing you season's greetings.

This is Faith Hill and I want to wish everyone a wonderful holiday season.

You played Earth Angel 17 times in a row.

Do you ever hear of Patti Page? Do you hear of Pat Boone? Ray Conniff, Tennessee Waltz.

Will you just tell me why you can't play something soft? Just e- look, in the middle, stick in one of those things, something fa, fa, lo, ma, but, but start off with something, something easy.

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Well, I've actually played this a few times on the show over the last few years.

But he used to play this every time he would go on vacation from the Ray Conniff Singers.

This is for you, Linda, because you brought it up and it's in my library, so I thought, why not play it?

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They're fighting rock and roll however they can.

It's still the label of Ray Conniff and André Previn and Robert Goulet.

This was an industry, as you write about in the book, that's fascinating to me, that in the '60s was still fixated on Al Jolson to the point where Jackie Wilson of all people is covering My Yiddishe Mama.

It's [laughs] Jackie Wilson made an entire album a, a tribute to Al Jolson.

He ended up joining back up with Limp Bizkit a few years later.

In 2002, legendary American band leader and composer Ray Conniff passed away at the age of 85 after suffering a stroke.

He was known for his Grammy award-winning vocal group, the Ray Conniff Singers.

He had easy listening arrangements that sold millions of records globally throughout the mid-20th century.

In 2007, the Disney Channel comedy series starring a very young Selena Gomez, The Wizards of Waverly Place, made its official television debut on the channel.

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... just very bland, pablum-style, uh, harmonies and choruses, like Ray Conniff and, I don't know, Hugo Winterhalter and-

I mean, this is-

... stuff like that

uh well yeah lawrence well but ray conneth the ray conneth singers that's what mom listened to we had all of the eight tracks go google actually you can do spotify or whatever uh ray kind of singers

So you like Jethro Tull more than Ray Conniff? Boy, that was tough.

Now, Dad listened to country and western, and you know, anybody that knows me knows I'm not country.

I don't like country.

Blues.

Blues actually is my favorite, the blues, but that's where rock and roll came from.

But no, that Ray Conniff singer's...

Sorry, Mom.

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Ray Conniff.

My mother loved Ray Conniff.

She was a bit of a pianist herself.

Mantovani.