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Compositions

- in London:

My Baby Told Me She Loves Me Ray Hartley / Desmond O'Connor 1950 Listen

Let's Do It Again Ray Hartley / Desmond O'Connor / Sam Brown 1950 Listen

Yes! Yes! Yes! (I Like Good Old Melody) Ray Hartley / Desmond O'Connor / Sam Browne 1950

Broken Heart Ray Hartley / Ralph Ruvin 1951 Listen

Last Night's Kisses Ray Hartley / Jimmy Kennedy / Sam Brown 1951 Listen

Start Singing A Song Ray Hartley / Desmond O'Connor / Sam Brown 1952

Why Do I Love You? Ray Hartley / Desmond O'Connor / Sam Brown 1952

Come To Me Ray Hartley / Sam Howard Sept / Sam Brown 1953

Sleepy Grasshopper Ray Hartley 1953 Listen

Welcome Home Ray Hartley / Sam Brown / Eileen Sears 1953 Listen

- in New York:

Dawning Of Love Ray Hartley / Jack Lawrence 1958 Listen

Whispers In The Wind Ray Hartley / Jack Lawrence 1958

Darling, He's Playing Our Song Ray Hartley / Jack Lawrence 1959

Castro's Got To Go Cha-Cha-Cha Ray Hartley / Jacques Segasture (Portugese) 1962

Castro's Got To Go Cha-Cha-Cha Ray Hartley / Jacques Segasture (Spanish) 1962

Moonlight For Lovers Ray Hartley / Jacques Segasture (Portugese) 1962

Moonlight For Lovers Ray Hartley / Jacques Segasture (Spanish) 1962

Crisis In Our Love Affair Ray Hartley / Jack Warren / Segasture 1963

Christmas Ray Hartley / Ray Hartley 1971

Peanut Butter and Jelly Time Ray Hartley

Portobello (Score), TV Musical Special Ray Hartley / Blanche Hanalis

Words and Music, Copyright Registered in the U.S.A. 1977:

Pussyfootin' Around / When I Become A Man / I Couldv'e Had / All The Fun Of The Fair /

The Juggling Song / Someone / Ready, Set, Go! / Slowly But Surely / The Gift Of Joy / Our World /

Our World / Ever Since Your Eyes Met Mine / How, and When, and Where? (Without You) /

Life With Father / Lettin' My Feet Be My Mind / When The Goin' Is Good / Kisses /

The Old Songwritin' Man / I'm Gonna Walk By Myself / Promise Her Anything (But Give Her Love) /

Mouse On The Mezzanine / Nightcap At Midnight / Penthouse Poodle / Pussycats' Waltz /

Twilight In Chinatown /

Recordings

LP Album – “The Trembling of a Leaf and The Sound of the Sea” 1958  Listen

RCA Victor / Producer Eddie Heller, with Orchestra conducted by David Terry

Cover photo by Murray Laden

A1 The Trembling of a Leaf Johnny Green / Jack Lawrence

A2 The Sound of the Sea George Sherzer / George Sherzer

A3 Sleepy Lagoon Jack Lawrence / Eric Coates

A4 With The Wind And The Rain In Your Hair Jack Lawrence / Clara Edwards

A5 A Place In The Sun Livingston / Evans / Waxman

A6 Dawning of Love Ray Hartley / Jack Lawrence

B1 Beautiful Love Young / King / Van Alstyne

B2 September Song Kurt Weill / Maxwell Anderson

B3 An Affair To Remember Warren / Adamson / McCarey

B4 My Foolish Heart Victor Young / Ned Washington

B5 The Song Is You Jerome Kern / Oscar Hammerstein

B6 The Very Thought Of You Ray Noble / Ray Noble

This album also produced in 1980 as 'El Solo Pensar En Ti' by RCA Victor Argentina in Spanish.

 

Single 45rpm 1958

RCA Victor / Producer Eddie Heller, with Orchestra conducted by David Terry

Side 1 - Beautiful Love Young / King / Van Alstyne

* Ray Hartley at the Piano

Side 2 – Chanson D'Amour (Song of Love) Wayne Shanklin

* Ray Hartley at the Harpsichord

 

EP 45rpm 1958

RCA Australia / Producer Eddie Heller, with Orchestra conducted by David Terry

A1 The Trembling of a Leaf Johnny Green / Jack Lawrence

A2 The Sound of the Sea George Sherzer / George Sherzer

B1 Sleepy Lagoon Jack Lawrence / Eric Coates

B2 With The Wind And The Rain In Your Hair Jack Lawrence / Clara Edwards

 

LP Album – “For Lovers” 1959

RCA Victor / Producer Eddie Heller, with Orchestra conducted by Don Walker

A1 They Can't Take That Away From Me George Gershwin / Ira Gershwin

A2 Autumn In Rome Sammy Cahn / Alessandro Cicognini / Paul Weston

A3 Secret Love (Calamity Jane) Sammy Fain / Paul Francis Webster

A4 A Certain Smile Sammy Fain / Paul Francis Webster

A5 Whispers In The Wind Ray Hartley / Jack Lawrence

A6 Come, Love Me ? / ?

B1 I Remember It Well Alan Jay Lerner / Frederick Loewe

B2 A Better Word Than Love (Gift of the Magi) Richard Adler

B3 Friendly Persuasion (Thee I Love) Dimitri Tiomkin / Paul Francis Webster  Listen

B4 Heart Of Paris Edouard Falment / George Aurie

B5 Intermezzo (Intermezzo) Max Steiner / Heinz Provost

B6 Shadow Of Love (Shadow Of Love) Lee-Muiren Reuseou / Lee-Muiren Reuseou

 

Single 45rpm 1959

RCA Victor / Producer Eddie Heller, with Orchestra conducted by Don Walker

Side 1 - I Remember It Well (Gigi) Alan Jay Lerner / Frederick Loewe

Side 2 – Beyond The Purple Hills Nick and Charles Kenny

 

Single 45rpm Victor Records Japan (1959?)

レイ・ハートリーのロマンティック・ピアノとその楽団

Side 1 - 夕焼けの丘 (Romaji: Yu Ya-ke No Oka) (trans. “sunset on the hill”)

Side 2 - 美しき恋 (Romaji: Utsuku-shi Ki Koi) (trans. “beautiful love”)

*Actual: Ray Hartley's Romantic Piano with Orchestra

Side 1 - Beyond The Purple Hills Nick and Charles Kenny

Side 2 - Beautiful Love Young / King / Van Alstyne

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