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Say It With Music (1960)

Say It With Music

  1. Besame Mucho
  2. Stranger in Paradise
  3. Summertime Say It With Music
  4. I've Got You Under My Skin
  5. Too Young
  6. Softly, As in a Morning Sunrise
  7. Just One of Those Things
  8. Deep Purple
  9. Brazil
  10. Night and Day
  11. Temptation
  12. Say It with Music


'S MusicSony released the CD in the U.S. in 1991 with the above cropped photo. The CD was later issued in Brazil as 's Music but with poor sound quality. This CD can be purchased from Amazon.
Original LP liner notes:
"Say it with a beautiful song," sing Irving Berlin's charming lyrics for the title tune of Ray Conniff's latest, and that is precisely what America's Number One dance arranger does. Moreover, he does it with a Latin beat, just a hint of the intriguing rhythms from the tropics. The brilliant Conniff way with a tune is too famous to need further mention, but the saucy extras he has added to this new program add up to entertainment that is brighter than ever.
Ray Conniff's novel methods of blending voices and orchestra have brought dancers hurrying back to the floor and caused even casual listeners to sit up and take notice. Female voices are doubled with trumpets, high saxophones or clarinets, while the male voices are paired with trombones, trumpets or saxes in the lower registers. This subtle coloring intensifies the soft tones and at the same time mellows the harsher ones. And it produces the glossiest dance music anyone could desire.
Ray began his recording career as an arranger (for Johnny Mathis, It's Not for me to Say; for Guy Mitchell, Singing the Blues; for Johnnie Ray, Walkin' My Baby Back Home, among others) but so vivid were his talents that he was soon signed as an artist himself. During the brief period that Ray has been arranging and conducting his dance albums, more than a million Conniff records have been sold, with demand growing every day.
In this collection, Ray plays a dozen favorite songs, touching them lightly with a Latin inflection. Four are by Cole Porter, others by George Gershwin, Sigmund Romberg, Peter de Rose and, of course, the Irving Berlin title tune. Each of them is, to quote Mr. Berlin again, "a melody mellow," and each of them is another Conniff delight.
Source:  https://www.rayconniff.info/comcast/original/albums/saywithmusic.html

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