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Ray Conniff - Happiness Is (CD)

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Album Details: Happiness Is

Release Date:03/01/1966
Label:Sony
UPC:074646468821

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  • All Music Guide

    An aggressively "happy" album by Ray Conniff and his singers, Happiness Is. combines exuberant singalongs, wordless vocals, and instrumentals into a grab-bag album that covers many -- if not most -- of Conniff's bases. A couple of mellow moments don't detract from the overarching sunniness of the album, which lapses into delicious self-parody with "Popsy" and the hilarious title track (co-written by former teen idol Paul Evans). "The Sheik of Araby" is whistled to a shuffling soft-shoe rhythm, and the joyous ba-ba's totally eclipse the inherent loneliness of "Blue Moon." Happiness Is is a fun and very funny album that once again shows Conniff's self-effacing sense of humor.

    - Greg Adams, All Music Guide

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Biography

Ray Conniff

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 Columbi... Read more