Ray Conniff

[Reverend Joshua Sloane]

I don't care if it's cheesy or camp to like Ray Conniff's band of ghostly anonymous singers --- this stuff is excellent.

The album "Love Affair", for the most part is great stuff.

Who else enjoys this stuff?

[Jason]

He's certainly better than The Hollyridge Strings, now isn't he?

[rb]

I'll take the Ray Charles Singers any day of the week over Conniff. I recently picked up a two-disc set career overview type disc, and I was disappointed. Much of it was kinda flat - certainly nothing to make you say, "How clever!" or anything like that. Even the Hollyridge Strings lp I recently dl'ed is better than this stuff.

[donald]

In the process of collecting vinyl, I've run across thousands of Conniff albums.  They can be had for nothing.  They are usually a part of some recently deceased persons collection and are found alongside albums by Jim Nabors, Donnie and Marie, Andy Williams, and Montovani.
Help yourself.  There are enough for a landfill and no one seems to want them.

[rb]

Yeah - don't forget Liverace - he can be had easily (in the collecting sense, at any rate.) Lawrence Welk too - if you could get all of those records together and somehow extract the petroleum - gas would immediately drop to 2002 price levels, and there'd be a nuclear war in the Middle East.

I was at a yard sale on Saturday - there were some cool-looking lps' there, including some old stereo demonstration discs that made my eyes fairly bug out. They must have gotten a bit wet at some point, though; the smell wasn't too great, and while leafing through the records I inadvertently touched my hand to my face... one side of my mouth immediately swelled to collagen proportions. I hauled ass outta there; next time I'll take a geiger counter or something.

[donald]

Oh the joys of record collecting.   Ever find any strange insects living in and/or dining on the sleeves?

[rb]

All right then; a geiger counter AND a can of Raid (Black Flag might cause some confusion at a swap meet. {Black Flag - geddit?})