birth anniversary conductor Ray Conniff

November 6, 2008... Ray would have been 92. In order to commemorate his birthday, watch YOUtube and sing along.
Joseph Raymond Conniff (November 6, 1916 - October 12, 2002) was an American musician. He was born in Attleboro, Massachusetts, and learned to play the trombone from his father. He studied music arranging from a course book.

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Musician Ray Ellis has died

Conductor/arranger Ray Ellis, who arranged such classics as "Chances Are" by Johnny Mathis, "Splish Splash" by Bobby Darin and "Standing on the Corner" by the Four Lads, died Monday, 27 October 2008, in Encino of complications from melanoma. He was 85. During a career that spanned almost 65 years, the Philadelphia native also arranged for acts including Tony Bennett, Doris Day, the Drifters, Connie Francis, Judy Garland and Ray Price.

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Dyan Garris

eight - Music for Ascention
This is New Age music for self-healing, relaxation and vibrational attunement of mind, body, and spirit. All you do is listen. Dyan's CDs have earned the "National Health & Wellness" Stamp of Approval. Tracks of soothing instrumental music, for both the seasoned meditator and the novice. The journeys are a refreshing escape. Take off the burdens of the day and put on this serenity for the soul. Dyan’s music can be heard internationally on www.RADIOnuages.com and numerous radio stations. Music charting #1 on Music Choice’s “Soundscapes” cable TV channel. Her "Spiritus Sanctus Vol. 1 and Volume 2 and "Release" were nominated for New Age Reporter Lifestyle Awards.

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California Melodies 43

My Heart at Thy Sweet Voice
DELIUS Dance for Harpsichord
Carry Me Back to Old Virginny
Do I Worry? vocalist maxine Gray
Cari Mia Rhumba
RUBINSTEIN Melody in F
Come Down To Earth, My Angel Maxine Gray
Plantation Moods

Happy Birthday Nana Mouskouri

NANA MOUSKOURI born 12 or 13 OCTOBER 1934. The pop singer from Greece became an international singing sensation and is credited with selling more records worldwide than any other female singer. She recorded for Philips, Polydor. Nana Mouskouri (in Greek, Nάνα Μούσχουρη), born as Ioanna Mouskhouri, in Chania, Crete, Greece. She was known as Nana to her friends and family as a child. (Note that in Greek her surname is pronounced with the stress on the first syllable rather than the second.) She has recorded in many different languages, including Greek, French, English, German, Dutch, Italian, Spanish, Welsh, among others.

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'California Melodies 42' with David Rose

Juanita
Years From Now
SIBELIUS: Valse Triste
Cantcha Tell with vocalist Maxine Gray
La Paloma
Ruby
Frenesi with Maxine Gray
Opus 6, Number 6 aka Jitterbug Fantasie

The Andre Kostelanetz papers

The papers of legendary conductor, arranger and broadcaster Andre Kostelanetz have been donated to the Library of Congress by his estate. Kostelanetz died in 1980. The gift is a veritable treasure trove for students of 20th century music and broadcasting. The archive of Kostelanetz' personal property, papers, clippings, letters, sound recordings, posters, and photographs spans some 73 crates. It documents in detail the career of one of America's most remarkable men of music. The gift from Kostelanetz' estate will complement the gift of scores and parts for many of his arrangements Kostelanetz made to the Library of Congress. His papers will join those of George and Ira Gershwin, Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein, Lorenz Hart, Frederick Loewe, Alan Jay Lerner, and Irving Berlin, among others in the Library's collection of material belonging to eminent American musicians.

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