1970s is a decade I were in secondary school. During this period there were several light music of my favorite from the radios. These favorite music has a unique style that is a chorus sing with voice and not with words. Chorus of voices is beautiful and sentimental then chorus of words. The radio DJ called these music Light Music while the musical world classified these as Easy Listening.
But I never know who the composer and singers until
few decades later when the Internet make it possible for each individual to
search for information. With Google, now I realized more then half of those music during my
school days came from an American Ray Conniff.
I grew up in the music of Ray Conniff.
Ray Conniff (雷· 康尼夫)(November 6, 1916 – October 12, 2002)
Joseph Raymond "Ray" Conniff /Jay Raye" was an American bandleader and arranger
best known for his Ray Conniff Singers during the 1960s.
Ray composed many Light Music popular in the
West and in Asia. Kuching being a successful British colonized town for century
in history and has a large English speaking generation naturally picked up
the popular culture of the west. Ray Conniff's light music has its share of
popularity in this part of the world.
Ray Conniff's presentation style is the using of human voice as the main part of the musical band, welded with saxophone, clarinet, trumpet, trombone and other brass instruments. This organic composition created a thick, rich, impressive sound effects.
During his life long career in composing music
with wordless chorus, his music can be categorized into 3 groups :
1) ORCHESTRA AND CHORUS
2) CHORUS SINGERS
3) THEMES OF STAGE AND SCREEN
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| 1960s Ray Conniff playing trombone |
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1960 Concert In Rhythm II
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1980 The Perfect 10 Classics (plus 8)
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2005 Mis 30 Mejores Canciones - Vol One
2005 Mis 30 Mejores Canciones - Vol Two
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