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. |
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Recordings
| Company | Matrix No. | Size | First Recording Date | Title | Primary Performer | Description | Role | Audio |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Victor | MS-023740[d] [DAHR Test] | 16-in. (33-1/3 rpm) | approximately late April 1935 | Don't wake my heart | Bunny Berigan Orchestra ; Dick Wharton | Jazz/dance band, with male vocal solo | instrumentalist, trombone | |
| Victor | MS-023738 | 16-in. (33-1/3 rpm) | approximately early June 1936 | Now it can be told | Bunny Berigan Orchestra ; Ruth Gaylor | Jazz/dance band and female vocal soloist | instrumentalist, trombone | |
| Victor | MS-023739 | 16-in. (33-1/3 rpm) | approximately early June 1936 | Flat foot floogie | Bunny Berigan Orchestra ; Ruth Gaylor ; Bernie Mackey | Jazz/dance band and vocal soloists | instrumentalist, trombone | |
| Victor | MS-023740 | 16-in. (33-1/3 rpm) | approximately early June 1936 | Cowboy from Brooklyn | Bunny Berigan Orchestra ; Dick Wharton | Jazz/dance band and male vocal solos | instrumentalist, trombone | |
| Victor | MS-023741 | 16-in. (33-1/3 rpm) | approximately early June 1936 | Pied piper | Bunny Berigan Orchestra ; Ruth Gaylor | Jazz/dance band and female vocal soloist | instrumentalist, trombone | |
| Victor | MS-023742 | 16-in. (33-1/3 rpm) | approximately early June 1936 | Wearin' of the green | Bunny Berigan Orchestra | Jazz/dance band | instrumentalist, trombone | |
| Victor | MS-024474 | 16-in. (33-1/3 rpm) | approximately early July 1838 | Small fry | Bunny Berigan Orchestra ; Ruth Gaylor | Jazz/dance band and female vocal solos | instrumentalist, trombone | |
| Victor | MS-024475 | 16-in. (33-1/3 rpm) | approximately early July 1838 | Hi yo, Silver | Bunny Berigan Orchestra ; Ruth Gaylor ; Dick Wharton | Jazz/dance band and vocal soloists | instrumentalist, trombone | |
| Victor | MS-024476 | 16-in. (33-1/3 rpm) | approximately early July 1838 | I used to be color blind | Bunny Berigan Orchestra | Jazz/dance band | instrumentalist, trombone | |
| Victor | MS-024477 | 16-in. (33-1/3 rpm) | approximately early July 1838 | Sing, you sinners | Bunny Berigan Orchestra | Jazz/dance band | instrumentalist, trombone | |
| Victor | BS-035035 | 10-in. | 3/15/1939 | Little gates special | Bunny Berigan Orchestra | Jazz/dance band | composer | |
| Victor | BS-035036 | 10-in. | 3/15/1939 | Gangbusters' holiday | Bunny Berigan Orchestra | Jazz/dance band | composer | |
| Victor | PBS-055194 | 10-in. | 12/4/1940 | Prelude in C major | Artie Shaw Orchestra | Jazz/dance band | composer | |
| Victor | BS-068194 | 10-in. | 11/12/1941 | To a Broadway rose | Artie Shaw Orchestra | Jazz/dance band | composer | |
| Victor | BS-070345 | 10-in. | 10/30/1941 | Just kiddin' around | Artie Shaw | Jazz/dance band | composer | |
| Victor | BS-071710 | 10-in. | 1/21/1942 | Needlenose | Artie Shaw Orchestra | Jazz/dance band | composer, arranger | |
| Victor | BS-073424 | 10-in. | 3/11/1942 | Three little sisters | Four V's ; Vaughn Monroe's Orchestra | Jazz/dance band, with vocal quartet | instrumentalist, trombone | |
| Victor | BS-073425 | 10-in. | 3/11/1942 | Be brave, beloved | Vaughn Monroe's Orchestra | Jazz/dance band, with male vocal solo | instrumentalist, trombone | |
| Victor | BS-073426 | 10-in. | 3/11/1942 | Sleepy lagoon | Vaughn Monroe's Orchestra | Jazz/dance band, with male vocal solo | instrumentalist, trombone | |
| Victor | BS-073427 | 10-in. | 3/11/1942 | Coming out party | Vaughn Monroe's Orchestra | Jazz/dance band | instrumentalist, trombone | |
| Victor | D4VB-1055 | 10-in. | 11/23/1944 | Jumpin' on the merry-go-round | Artie Shaw Orchestra | Jazz/dance band | composer | |
| Victor | D5VB-1054 | 10-in. | 6/5/1945 | Kasbah | Artie Shaw Orchestra | Jazz/dance band | composer | |
| Victor | D5VB-1055 | 10-in. | 6/5/1945 | Lament | Artie Shaw Orchestra | Jazz/dance band | composer | |
| Victor | D5VB-1061 | 10-in. | 6/8/1945 | Lucky number | Artie Shaw Orchestra | Jazz/dance band | composer | |
| Decca | 65942 | 10-in. | 7/10/1939 | You and your love | Bob Crosby Orchestra | instrumentalist, trombone | ||
| Decca | 65943 | 10-in. | 7/10/1939 | Melancholy mood | Bob Crosby Orchestra | instrumentalist, trombone | ||
| Decca | 65998 | 10-in. | 7/24/1939 | Over the rainbow | Bob Crosby Orchestra | instrumentalist, trombone | ||
| Decca | 65999 | 10-in. | 7/24/1939 | Oh you crazy moon | Bob Crosby Orchestra | instrumentalist, trombone | ||
| Decca | 66000 | 10-in. | 7/24/1939 | Day in, day out | Bob Crosby Orchestra | instrumentalist, trombone | ||
| Decca | 66220 | 10-in. | 8/29/1939 | Boogie woogie Maxixe | Bob Crosby Orchestra | instrumentalist, trombone | ||
| Decca | 66221 | 10-in. | 8/29/1939 | Blue orchids | Bob Crosby Orchestra | instrumentalist, trombone | ||
| Decca | 66222 | 10-in. | 8/29/1939 | The world is waiting for the sunrise | Bob Crosby Orchestra | instrumentalist, trombone | ||
| Decca | 66292 | 10-in. | 9/6/1939 | What used to was used to was | Bob Crosby Orchestra | instrumentalist, trombone | ||
| Decca | 66293 | 10-in. | 9/6/1939 | Lilacs in the rain | Bob Crosby Orchestra | instrumentalist, trombone | ||
| Decca | 66539 | 10-in. | 9/11/1939 | can I help it? | Bob Crosby Orchestra | instrumentalist, trombone | ||
| Decca | 66540 | 10-in. | 9/11/1939 | The starlit hour | Bob Crosby Orchestra | instrumentalist, trombone | ||
| Decca | 66666 | 10-in. | 9/25/1939 | The little man who wasn't there | Bob Crosby Orchestra | instrumentalist, trombone | ||
| Decca | 66667 | 10-in. | 9/25/1939 | (Why couldn't it last) Last night | Bob Crosby Orchestra | instrumentalist, trombone | ||
| Decca | 66702 | 10-in. | 10/2/1939 | Air mail stomp | Bob Crosby Orchestra | instrumentalist, trombone | ||
| Decca | 66791 | 10-in. | 10/23/1939 | I thought about you | Bob Crosby Orchestra | instrumentalist, trombone | ||
| Decca | 66792 | 10-in. | 10/23/1939 | Happy birthday to love | Bob Crosby Orchestra | instrumentalist, trombone | ||
| Decca | 66793 | 10-in. | 10/23/1939 | For dancers only | Bob Crosby Orchestra | instrumentalist, trombone | ||
| Decca | 66794 | 10-in. | 10/23/1939 | The answer is love | Bob Crosby Orchestra | instrumentalist, trombone | ||
| Decca | 66830 | 10-in. | 11/6/1939 | It's a whole new thing | Bob Crosby Orchestra | instrumentalist, trombone | ||
| Decca | 66831 | 10-in. | 11/6/1939 | Angry | Bob Crosby Orchestra | instrumentalist, trombone | ||
| Decca | 66832 | 10-in. | 11/6/1939 | Complainin' | Bob Crosby Orchestra | instrumentalist, trombone | ||
| Decca | 66939 | 10-in. | 12/6/1939 | Between 18th and 19th on Chestnut Street | Bob Crosby Orchestra | instrumentalist, trombone | ||
| Decca | 66940 | 10-in. | 12/6/1939 | Pinch me | Bob Crosby Orchestra | instrumentalist, trombone | ||
| Decca | 66941 | 10-in. | 12/6/1939 | I wanna wrap you up | Bob Crosby Orchestra | instrumentalist, trombone | ||
| Decca | 66942 | 10-in. | 12/6/1939 | The little red fox | Bob Crosby Orchestra | instrumentalist, trombone | ||
| Decca | 67095 | 10-in. | 1/23/1940 | I've got my eyes on you | Bob Crosby Orchestra | instrumentalist, trombone | ||
| Decca | 67096 | 10-in. | 1/23/1940 | Angel | Bob Crosby Orchestra | instrumentalist, trombone | ||
| Decca | 67097 | 10-in. | 1/23/1940 | Ooh! What you said | Bob Crosby Orchestra | instrumentalist, trombone | ||
| Decca | 67098 | 10-in. | 1/23/1940 | Gotta get home | Bob Crosby Orchestra | instrumentalist, trombone | ||
| Decca | 67187 | 10-in. | 2/13/1940 | Shake down the stars | Bob Crosby Orchestra | instrumentalist, trombone | ||
| Decca | 67188 | 10-in. | 2/13/1940 | You, you darlin' | Bob Crosby Orchestra | instrumentalist, trombone | ||
| Decca | 67189 | 10-in. | 2/13/1940 | With the wind and the rain in your hair | Bob Crosby Orchestra | instrumentalist, trombone | ||
| Decca | 67190 | 10-in. | 2/13/1940 | Reminiscing time | Bob Crosby Orchestra | instrumentalist, trombone | ||
| Decca | 67204 | 10-in. | 2/19/1940 | Up the chimney go my dreams | Bob Crosby Orchestra | instrumentalist, trombone | ||
| Decca | 67205 | 10-in. | 2/19/1940 | Run, rabbit, run | Bob Crosby Orchestra | instrumentalist, trombone | ||
| Decca | 67206 | 10-in. | 2/19/1940 | Leanin' on the old top rail | Bob Crosby Orchestra | instrumentalist, trombone | ||
| Decca | 67207 | 10-in. | 2/19/1940 | They ought to write a book about you | Bob Crosby Orchestra | instrumentalist, trombone | ||
| Decca | 67231 | 10-in. | 2/27/1940 | Tit willow | Bob Crosby Orchestra | instrumentalist, trombone | ||
| Decca | 67232 | 10-in. | 2/27/1940 | Ain't goin' nowhere | Bob Crosby Orchestra | instrumentalist, trombone | ||
| Decca | 67233 | 10-in. | 2/27/1940 | Sweet Genevieve | Bob Crosby Orchestra | instrumentalist, trombone | ||
| Decca | 67234 | 10-in. | 2/27/1940 | Where the blue of the night meets the gold of the day | Bob Crosby Orchestra | instrumentalist, trombone | ||
| Decca | 67263 | 10-in. | 3/4/1940 | My! My! | Bob Crosby Orchestra | instrumentalist, trombone | ||
| Decca | 67264 | 10-in. | 3/4/1940 | Moments in the moonlight | Bob Crosby Orchestra | instrumentalist, trombone | ||
| Decca | 67265 | 10-in. | 3/4/1940 | Say it | Bob Crosby Orchestra | instrumentalist, trombone | ||
| Decca | 67266 | 10-in. | 3/4/1940 | An angel in disguise | Bob Crosby Orchestra | instrumentalist, trombone | ||
| Decca | 67335 | 10-in. | 3/18/1940 | Fools rush in | Bob Crosby Orchestra | instrumentalist, trombone | ||
| Decca | 67336 | 10-in. | 3/18/1940 | From another world | Bob Crosby Orchestra | instrumentalist, trombone | ||
| Decca | 67337 | 10-in. | 3/18/1940 | Over the waves | Bob Crosby Orchestra | instrumentalist, trombone | ||
| Decca | 67338 | 10-in. | 3/18/1940 | Cecilia | Bob Crosby Orchestra | instrumentalist, trombone | ||
| Decca | 67399 | 10-in. | 3/26/1940 | Believing | Bob Crosby Orchestra | instrumentalist, trombone | ||
| Decca | 67400 | 10-in. | 3/26/1940 | This is the beginning of the end | Bob Crosby Orchestra | instrumentalist, trombone | ||
| Decca | 67401 | 10-in. | 3/26/1940 | Ja-da | Bob Crosby Orchestra | instrumentalist, trombone | ||
| Decca | 67402 | 10-in. | 3/26/1940 | Sweet Genevieve | Bob Crosby Orchestra | instrumentalist, trombone | ||
| Decca | 67403 | 10-in. | 3/26/1940 | Shortnin' bread | Bob Crosby Orchestra | instrumentalist, trombone | ||
| Decca | 67473 | 10-in. | 4/3/1940 | Embraceable you | Bob Crosby Orchestra | instrumentalist, trombone | ||
| Decca | 67474 | 10-in. | 4/3/1940 | I'm nobody's baby | Bob Crosby Orchestra | instrumentalist, trombone | ||
| Decca | 67475 | 10-in. | 4/3/1940 | Sympathy | Bob Crosby Orchestra | instrumentalist, trombone | ||
| Decca | 67476 | 10-in. | 4/3/1940 | Speak easy | Bob Crosby Orchestra | instrumentalist, trombone | ||
| Decca | 67778 | 10-in. | 5/20/1940 | Feather merchant''s ball-1 | Teddy Powell Orchestra | arranger | ||
| Decca | 72327 | 10-in. | 6/29/1944 | Who, Ray! -1 | Glen Gray Orchestra | arranger | ||
| Decca | DLA 2108 | 10-in. | 8/3/1940 | Cow cow blues | Bob Crosby Orchestra | instrumentalist, trombone | ||
| Decca | L 5447 | 3/22/1950 | Mambo jambo | Sonny Burke Orchestra | instrumentalist, trombone | |||
| Decca | L 5448 | 3/22/1950 | What, where and when | Sonny Burke Orchestra | instrumentalist, trombone | |||
| Decca | L 5550 | 4/17/1950 | Just one of those things | Sonny Burke Orchestra | instrumentalist, trombone | |||
| Decca | L 5551 | 4/17/1950 | Stompin' at the Savoy | Sonny Burke Orchestra | instrumentalist, trombone | |||
| Decca | L 5552 | 4/17/1950 | Happy pay day | Sonny Burke Orchestra | instrumentalist, trombone | |||
| Decca | L 5553 | 4/17/1950 | More mambo jambo | Sonny Burke Orchestra | instrumentalist, trombone | |||
| Decca | L 5882 | 10/13/1950 | Jing-a-ling, jing-a-ling mambo | Sonny Burke Orchestra | instrumentalist, trombone | |||
| Decca | L 5883 | 10/13/1950 | Mambo No. 5 | Sonny Burke Orchestra | instrumentalist, trombone | |||
| Decca | L 5884 | 10/13/1950 | El choclo mambo | Sonny Burke Orchestra | instrumentalist, trombone | |||
| Decca | L 5904 | 11/1/1950 | Koo koo mambo | Sonny Burke Orchestra | instrumentalist, trombone | |||
| Decca | L 5905 | 11/1/1950 | Mamboogie | Sonny Burke Orchestra | instrumentalist, trombone | |||
| Decca | L 5906 | 11/1/1950 | Little Bud mambo | Sonny Burke Orchestra | instrumentalist, trombone | |||
| Decca | L 6088 | 2/16/1951 | I apologize | Kitty White | instrumentalist, trombone, arranger | |||
| Decca | L 6089 | 2/16/1951 | Paradise | Kitty White | instrumentalist, trombone, arranger | |||
| Decca | L 6090 | 2/16/1951 | You're tired of me | Kitty White | instrumentalist, trombone, arranger | |||
| Decca | L 6396 | 8/28/1951 | Happiness is this | Sonny Burke Orchestra | instrumentalist, trombone, arranger | |||
| Decca | L 6397 | 8/28/1951 | Cocoanuts | Sonny Burke Orchestra | instrumentalist, trombone, arranger | |||
| Decca | L 6398 | 8/28/1951 | Mr. President | Sonny Burke Orchestra | instrumentalist, trombone, arranger | |||
| Decca | L 6399 | 8/28/1951 | Three cornered tune | Sonny Burke Orchestra | instrumentalist, trombone, arranger | |||
| Decca | L 7560 | 2/12/1954 | Beanie boy boogie (B.R. Boogie Cor. 9-61371) | Ray Conniff and his Rockin' Rhythm Boys | instrumentalist, trombone, leader | |||
| Decca | L 7561 | 2/12/1954 | Short stuff | Ray Conniff and his Rockin' Rhythm Boys | instrumentalist, trombone, leader | |||
| Decca | L 7562 | 2/12/1954 | Super chief | Ray Conniff and his Rockin' Rhythm Boys | instrumentalist, trombone, leader | |||
| Decca | L 7563 | 2/12/1954 | Piggy bank boogie | Ray Conniff and his Rockin' Rhythm Boys | instrumentalist, trombone, leader | |||
| Decca | L 7709 | 5/25/1954 | Sneaky Pete | Georgie Auld | arranger | |||
| Decca | L 7710 | 5/25/1954 | The high and the mighty | Georgie Auld | arranger | |||
| Decca | L 7711 | 5/25/1954 | Sha-bah-dah-bah-dee | Georgie Auld | arranger | |||
| Decca | L 7712 | 5/25/1954 | Spring it was | Georgie Auld | arranger | |||
| Decca | N 1235 | 10-in. | 12/23/1943 | But not for me | Bobby Hackett Orchestra | instrumentalist, trombone | ||
| Decca | N 1236 | 10-in. | 12/23/1943 | Rose room | Bobby Hackett Orchestra | instrumentalist, trombone | ||
| Decca | N 1237 | 10-in. | 'S wonderful | Bobby Hackett Orchestra | instrumentalist, trombone | |||
| Decca | N 1238 | 10-in. | 12/23/1943 | Ja-da | Bobby Hackett Orchestra | instrumentalist, trombone | ||
| Decca | N 1239 | 10-in. | 12/23/1943 | Exactly like you | Bobby Hackett Orchestra | instrumentalist, trombone | ||
| Decca | N 1240 | 10-in. | 12/23/1943 | Embraceable you | Bobby Hackett Orchestra | instrumentalist, trombone | ||
| Decca | N 1242 | 10-in. | 12/23/1943 | I'll never be the same | Bobby Hackett Orchestra | instrumentalist, trombone | ||
| Decca | N 1243 | 10-in. | 12/23/1943 | Sweet Georgia Brown (false start) ; Sweet Georgia Brown ; Sweet Georgia Brown (original take) | Bobby Hackett Orchestra | instrumentalist, trombone |
Citation
Discography of American Historical Recordings, s.v. "Conniff, Ray," accessed April 26, 2024, https://adp.library.ucsb.edu/names/106440.
Conniff, Ray. (2024). In Discography of American Historical Recordings. Retrieved April 26, 2024, from https://adp.library.ucsb.edu/names/106440.
"Conniff, Ray." Discography of American Historical Recordings. UC Santa Barbara Library, 2024. Web. 26 April 2024.
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LCNAR: Conniff, Ray, 1916-2002 - http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n91107593
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