'S Marvelous

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'S Marvelous
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Studio album by
Ray Conniff and His Orchestra
Released1957
Genre Easy listening
Label Columbia
Ray Conniff and His Orchestra chronology
Dance the Bop!
(1957)		'S Marvelous
(1957)		 'S Awful Nice
(1958)

'S Marvelous is an album by Ray Conniff and His Orchestra. It was released in mono in 1957 on the Columbia label (catalog no. CL 1074) and in stereo (catalog no. CS 8037) in 1958. [1] [2]

Contents

Chart performance

The album came after an unsuccessful one with a bop sound, but this one debuted on Billboard magazine's pop album chart on December 23, 1957, peaked at No. 10, and remained on the chart for 31 weeks. [3] On the Cash Box albums chart, it peaked at No. 7, staying on the chart for 15 weeks. [4] It was certified by the RIAA as a gold record. [3]

Reception

AllMusic later gave the album a rating of four-and-a-half stars. Reviewer William Ruhlmann called it "a set of lively arrangements of standards featuring a wordless chorus." [2]

Track listing

Side 1

  1. "You Do Something to Me" (Cole Porter)
  2. "As Time Goes By" (Herman Hupfeld)
  3. "In the Still of the Night" (Cole Porter)
  4. "Someone to Watch Over Me" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin)
  5. "Be My Love" (Sammy Cahn, Nicholas Brodszky)
  6. "Where or When" (Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart)

Side 2

  1. "The Way You Look Tonight" (Jerome Kern, Dorothy Fields)
  2. "I Hear a Rhapsody" (George Fragos, Jack Baker, Dick Gasparre)
  3. "They Can't Take That Away from Me" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin)
  4. "Moonlight Serenade" (Glenn Miller, Mitchell Parish)
  5. "I Love You" (Cole Porter)
  6. "I've Told Ev'ry Little Star" (Jerome Kern, Oscar Hammerstein II)

Charts

Chart (1957)Peak
position
US Billboard Top LPs 10
US Cashbox Top LPs [4] 7

References

  1. ↑ "Ray Conniff And His Orchestra* – 'S Marvelous". Discogs. Retrieved December 29, 2020.
  2. 1 2 "'S Marvelous". AllMusic. Retrieved December 29, 2020.
  3. 1 2 Joel Whitburn (1995). The Billboard Book of Top 40 Albums. Billboard Books. p. 72. ISBN   0823076318.
  4. 1 2 Hoffmann, Frank W (1988). The Cash box album charts, 1955-1974. Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press. p. 78. ISBN   0-8108-2005-6.
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