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The Way You Look Tonight Bonus Track by Ray Conniff And His Orchestra

Artist Biography For Ray Conniff And His Orchestra

The Man Who Popularized Wordless Vocal Choruses And Light Orchestral Accompaniment On A Mix Of Popular Standards And Contemporary Hits Of The 1960s Ray Conniff Was A Trombone Player For Bunny Berigan's Orchestra And Bob Crosby's Bobcats Before Being Hired As An Arranger By Mitch Miller For Columbia Records In 1954. After He Wrote The Charts For Several Sizeable Columbia Hits During The Mid-'50s Conniff Became A Solo Artist As Well Applying His Arranging Techniques To Instrumental Easy-Listening For The Booming Adult Album Market. The Result Twelve Top Ten LPs And Well Over 50 Million Total Albums Sold Cemented His Status As One Of The Top LP Sellers Of All Time But His Increasingly Watered-Down And Commercially Focused Arrangements Gained Few Young Fans By The End Of The 1960s. Though He Continued Recording And Touring The World Into The 1990s.

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