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Ray Conniff
'S Always Conniff
Genres: Pop, Broadway & Vocalists

Track Listings (25) - Disc #1
1. New York, New York - Ray Conniff, Ebb, Fred
2. Moonlight Serenade - Ray Conniff, Miller, Glenn [1]
3. In the Mood - Ray Conniff, Garland, Joe
4. Phantom of the Opera - Ray Conniff, Hart, Charles
5. Memory - Ray Conniff, Eliot, T.S.
6. One - Ray Conniff, Hamlisch, Marvin
7. Anything Goes - Ray Conniff, Porter, Cole
8. An Improvisation on Chopin's Nocturne in E Flat - Ray Conniff, Conniff, Ray
9. An Improvisation on Liebestraum - Ray Conniff,
10. Somewhere, My Love - Ray Conniff, Jarre, Maurice
11. Don't Cry for Me Argentina - Ray Conniff, Lloyd Webber, Andre
12. Blowin' in the Wind - Ray Conniff, Dylan, Bob
13. Smoke Gets in Your Eyes - Ray Conniff, Harbach, Otto
14. Warsaw Concerto - Ray Conniff, Addinsell, Richard
15. Sing - Ray Conniff, Raposo, Joe
16. Yesterday Once More - Ray Conniff, Bettis, John
17. Top of the World - Ray Conniff, Bettis, John
18. My Cha Chornia - Ray Conniff,
19. The Music of the Night - Ray Conniff, Hart, Charles
20. Let's Dance - Ray Conniff, Baldridge, Fannie
21. Brazil - Ray Conniff, Barroso, Ary
22. Brazil Reprise - Ray Conniff, Barroso, Ary
23. Mack the Knife - Ray Conniff, Blitzstein, Marc
24. On the Street Where You Live - Ray Conniff, Lerner, Alan Jay
25. Brazil Reprise - Ray Conniff, Barroso, Ary

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CD Details

All Artists: Ray Conniff
Title: 'S Always Conniff
Members Wishing: 0
Total Copies: 1
Label: Sony
Original Release Date: 10/13/1992
Release Date: 10/13/1992
Album Type: Live
Genres: Pop, Broadway & Vocalists
Styles: Easy Listening, Oldies, Vocal Pop, Traditional Vocal Pop
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
Other Editions: S Always Conniff
UPCs: 074645314020, 0074645314020

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Member CD Reviews

Kenji N. from WALNUT CREEK, CA
Reviewed on 1/6/2010...

Good CD (not excellent). A lot of familiar tunes but not many are "sing-along" type (his albums are usually easy to sing along with as you go about your work). This obviously is a recording of a concert in Tokyo. I do not care much for "live" performances although I realize it is cheaper to produce and hence, cheaper for fans. Overall, nice to have but will not be played as often as older Ray Conniff albums.

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CD Reviews

Conniff Live in Tokyo

Smallchief | 03/28/2006

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Ray Conniff had an amazing 65-year career as a big-band trombonist, conducter, and arranger. Maybe somebody has made more albums and recorded more songs than Conniff -- but I don't know who. This is album number 88, recorded live in Tokyo in 1992 when he was 75 years old. He continued recording and touring for another decade.

Conniff was a big deal in the US in the late 1950s and 1960s but fell out of prominence thereafter. He continued to be very popular in Latin America and, oddly enough, Japan and Russia. Throughout his recording career he pursued the same winning formula: a shuffle beat; a bold, brassy, bright sound; and a mixed chorus, sometimes singing words, sometimes doos and daas like an instrument of the band. You won't like all his arrangements, but he gets it right with a fresh interpretation of a familiar song about 75 percent of the time.

This live album consists mostly of newer songs, i.e. from the 1960s and later, rather than big band standards. I especially enjoyed the energetic finale in which Conniff led the orchestra in "Brazil," an archetypal Conniff arrangement, a swinging "Mack the Knife" and a great arrangement of "On the Steet Where you Live" which converts a drippy showtune into a toe-tapping masterpiece. Along their way are some pleasant surprises: two Carpenter's songs which I didn't like in the original but were excellent in Conniff's arrangement and a song I've never heard before, "My Cha Chornia."

For a cross section of Conniff's music this is an excellent CD."