|
So Much In Love (Ray Conniff Album)
''So Much in Love'' is an album by The Ray Conniff Singers. It was released in 1961 on the Columbia label (catalog no. CS-8520). The album debuted on ''Billboard'' magazine's "Top LPs The ''Billboard'' 200 is a record chart ranking the 200 most popular music albums and EPs in the United States. It is published weekly by ''Billboard'' magazine and is frequently used to convey the popularity of an artist or groups of artist ..." chart on February 17, 1962, peaked at No. 5, and remained on that chart for 23 weeks. It was certified by the RIAA as a gold record. AllMusic later gave the album a rating of four stars. Reviewer Greg Adams called it "a straight choral pop album with orchestral accompaniment and classic songs." Track listing Side 1 # " Autumn Leaves" (J. Mercer, J. Kosma) / "Just Walking In The Rain" (J. Bragg, R. Riley) :45# "I Fall In Love Too Easily" (S. Cahn, J. Styne) / "My Heart Stood Still" (L. Hart, R. Rodgers) :25# "Dancing On The Ceiling" (L. Hart, R. Rod ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ray Conniff
Joseph Raymond Conniff (November 6, 1916 – October 12, 2002) was an American bandleader and arranger best known for his Ray Conniff Singers during the 1960s. Biography Conniff was born November 6, 1916 in Attleboro, Massachusetts, United States, 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 World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the World War II by country, vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great power ... (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 hired in 1954 by Mitch Miller, head of A&R at Columbia Records, as the label's home arranger, working with several artists including Rosemary Clooney, Marty Robbins, Frankie Laine, J ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Easy Listening
Easy listening (including mood music) is a popular music genre and radio format that was most popular during the 1950s to 1970s. It is related to middle-of-the-road (MOR) music and encompasses instrumental recordings of standards, hit songs, non- rock vocals and instrumental covers of selected popular rock songs. It mostly concentrates on music that pre-dates the rock and roll era, characteristically on music from the 1940s and 1950s. It was differentiated from the mostly instrumental beautiful music format by its variety of styles, including a percentage of vocals, arrangements and tempos to fit various parts of the broadcast day. Easy listening music is often confused with lounge music, but while it was popular in some of the same venues it was meant to be listened to for enjoyment rather than as background sound. History The style has been synonymous with the tag "with strings". String instruments had been used in sweet bands in the 1930s and was the dominant sound tra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Columbia Records
Columbia Records is an American record label owned by Sony Music, Sony Music Entertainment, a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America, the North American division of Japanese Conglomerate (company), conglomerate Sony. It was founded on January 15, 1889, evolving from the Graphophone#Commercialization, American Graphophone Company, the successor to the Volta Laboratory and Bureau#Commercialization of phonograph patents, Volta Graphophone Company. Columbia is the oldest surviving brand name in the recorded sound business, and the second major company to produce records. From 1961 to 1991, its recordings were released outside North America under the name CBS Records International, CBS Records to avoid confusion with EMI's Columbia Graphophone Company. Columbia is one of Sony Music's four flagship record labels, alongside former longtime rival RCA Records, as well as Arista Records and Epic Records. Artists who have recorded for Columbia include AC/DC, Adele, Aerosmith, Julie And ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Young At Heart (Ray Conniff Album)
''Young at Heart'' is an album by The Ray Conniff Singers. It was released in 1960 on the Columbia label (catalog no. CL-1489). The album debuted on ''Billboard'' magazine's popular albums chart on August 15, 1960, peaked at No. 6, and remained on that chart for 13 weeks. AllMusic later gave the album a rating of three stars. Reviewer Greg Adams wrote that Conniff's "expert arranging skills and the talent of his chorus are on prominent display." Track listing Side 1 # "Remember" ( Irving Berlin) :18# " You'll Never Know" (Harry Warren, Mack Gordond) :22# "Dancing with Tears in My Eyes" (Al Dubin, Joe Burke) :16# "I'm in the Mood for Love" ( Jimmy McHugh, Dorothy Fields) :27# " I'll Be Seeing You" ( Irving Kahal, Sammy Fain) :55# "It's Dark On Observatory Hill" (Harold Spina, Johnny Burke) :34 Side 2 # "These Foolish Things (Remind Me of You)" (Harry Link, Holt Marvell, Jack Strachey) :24# "Ma! He's Making Eyes at Me" ( Con Conrad, Sidney Clare) :10# " Young At Heart" ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
'S Continental
''S Continental'' is an album by Ray Conniff and His Orchestra & Chorus. It was released in 1962 on the Columbia label (catalog nos. CS 8576 stereo and CL 1776 monaural). The album debuted on ''Billboard'' magazine's "Top LPs" chart on May 12, 1962, peaked at No. 6, and remained on that chart for 18 weeks. AllMusic later gave the album a rating of three stars. Reviewer William Ruhlmann wrote that the album marked Conniff's return to "a familiar approach" with the vocals "back to 'da'das' and 'doot-doots.'" Track listing Side 1 # " The Continental (You Kiss While You're Dancing)" ( Con Conrad, Herb Magidson) :45# "The Whiffenpoof Song" (George S. Pomeroy, Meade Minnigerode, Rudy Vallée, T. B. Galloway) :21# " Beyond The Sea (La Mer)" ( Charles Trenet, Jack Lawrence) :32# "Swing Little Glow Worm" (Ray Conniff) :09# " The Poor People Of Paris" (Jack Lawrence, Marguerite Monnot) :48# "Strange Music" (from the musical production ''Song Of Norway'') (George Forrest, Robert Wr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Billboard (magazine)
''Billboard'' (stylized as ''billboard'') is an American music and entertainment magazine published weekly by Penske Media Corporation. The magazine provides music charts, news, video, opinion, reviews, events, and style related to the music industry. Its music charts include the Hot 100, the 200, and the Global 200, tracking the most popular albums and songs in different genres of music. It also hosts events, owns a publishing firm, and operates several TV shows. ''Billboard'' was founded in 1894 by William Donaldson and James Hennegan as a trade publication for bill posters. Donaldson later acquired Hennegan's interest in 1900 for $500. In the early years of the 20th century, it covered the entertainment industry, such as circuses, fairs, and burlesque shows, and also created a mail service for travelling entertainers. ''Billboard'' began focusing more on the music industry as the jukebox, phonograph, and radio became commonplace. Many topics it covered were spun-off int ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Billboard 200
The ''Billboard'' 200 is a record chart ranking the 200 most popular music albums and EPs in the United States. It is published weekly by ''Billboard'' magazine and is frequently used to convey the popularity of an artist or groups of artists. Often, a recording act will be remembered by its "number ones", those of their albums that outperformed all others during at least one week. The chart grew from a weekly top 10 list in 1956 to become a top 200 list in May 1967, and acquired its current name in March 1992. Its previous names include the ''Billboard'' Top LPs (1961–1972), ''Billboard'' Top LPs & Tape (1972–1984), ''Billboard'' Top 200 Albums (1984–1985) and ''Billboard'' Top Pop Albums (1985–1992). The chart is based mostly on sales – both at retail and digital – of albums in the United States. The weekly sales period was originally Monday to Sunday when Nielsen started tracking sales in 1991, but since July 2015, tracking week begins on Friday (to coincide ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Autumn Leaves (1945 Song)
"Autumn Leaves" is a popular song and jazz standard composed by Joseph Kosma in 1945 with original lyrics by Jacques Prévert in French (original French title: "Les Feuilles mortes"), and later by Johnny Mercer in English. An instrumental version by pianist Roger Williams was a number one best-seller in the US ''Billboard'' charts of 1955. Background Kosma was a native of Hungary who was introduced to Prévert in Paris. They collaborated on the song ' ("The Dead Leaves") for the 1946 film '' Les Portes de la nuit (Gates of the Night)'' where it was sung by Irène Joachim and Yves Montand. The poem was published, after the death of Jacques Prévert, in the book "Soleil de Nuit" in 1980. Kosma was influenced by a piece of ballet music, "Rendez-vous" written for Roland Petit, performed in Paris at the end of the Second World War, large parts of the melodies are exactly the same, which was itself borrowed partially from "Poème d'octobre" by Jules Massenet. The first commercia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
I Wish I Didn't Love You So
"I Wish I Didn't Love You So" is a 1947 song written by Frank Loesser. It was originally performed by Betty Hutton for the 1947 Paramount Pictures film ''The Perils of Pauline'', and was made famous by Vaughn Monroe and His Orchestra, who reached number 2 with the song in the United States, and number 1 in Canada. The song is about how the narrator wishes he did not love his significant other, whose affection to him is "torture," and he wants to move on with someone else, but can not, because "something in isheart says no." Betty Hutton original Hutton's version, backed by Joe Lilley, was nominated for Best Original Song at the 20th Academy Awards, losing to "Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah" by James Baskett. It was negatively reviewed by ''Billboard'', as an "unfortunate attempt at ballad styling hatshould serve to discourage future desires for sweet warbling," while ''Cashbox'' called it "sensational and beautiful," "of the kind that romancers love to get up close to," and "one of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1961 Albums
Events January * January 3 ** United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower announces that the United States has severed diplomatic and consular relations with Cuba (Cuba–United States relations are restored in 2015). ** Aero Flight 311 (Koivulahti air disaster): Douglas DC-3C OH-LCC of Finnish airline Aero crashes near Kvevlax (Koivulahti), on approach to Vaasa Airport in Finland, killing all 25 on board, due to pilot error: an investigation finds that the captain and first officer were both exhausted for lack of sleep, and had consumed excessive amounts of alcohol at the time of the crash. It remains the deadliest air disaster to occur in the country. * January 5 ** Italian sculptor Alfredo Fioravanti marches into the U.S. Consulate in Rome, and confesses that he was part of the team that forged the Etruscan terracotta warriors in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. ** After the 1960 military coup, General Cemal Gürsel forms the new government of Turkey (25th g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Columbia Records Albums
Columbia may refer to: * Columbia (personification), the historical female national personification of the United States, and a poetic name for America Places North America Natural features * Columbia Plateau, a geologic and geographic region in the U.S. Pacific Northwest * Columbia River, in Canada and the United States ** Columbia Bar, a sandbar in the estuary of the Columbia River ** Columbia Country, the region of British Columbia encompassing the northern portion of that river's upper reaches ***Columbia Valley, a region within the Columbia Country ** Columbia Lake, a lake at the head of the Columbia River *** Columbia Wetlands, a protected area near Columbia Lake ** Columbia Slough, along the Columbia watercourse near Portland, Oregon * Glacial Lake Columbia, a proglacial lake in Washington state * Columbia Icefield, in the Canadian Rockies * Columbia Island (District of Columbia), in the Potomac River * Columbia Island (New York), in Long Island Sound Populated pl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
.png "Click for more on -> Ray Conniff")
