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It's the Talk of the Town / Young at Heart

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Ray was at the peak of his choral writing for these two albums. There is just no one on the market with a better vocal dance beat!!

Wonderful music. Both for dancing and listening. I bought two

"It's The Talk of the Town" was the first Ray Conniff record that featured the singers actually performing the words instead of the singers performing to the sounds of the music. From It's The Talk of the Town" to "You're an Old Smoothie" to Buttons and Bows" its enjoyable listening for everyone. You won't be disappointed by this in your C.D. collection!!

I really just wanted to buy It's the Talk of the Town as a single download but could not find the song anywhere except as part of a CD. The CD actually had 2 albums in it - It's the Talk of the Town and Young at Heart. Ray Conniff music is one of those old time groups that had a distinctive sound. I grew up listening to the music as my older siblings played it on the stereo. Back then, LP's or long playing albums were the standard for playing music. Anyway, it's good to hear some of the songs here. The songs are very old fashioned in sound but it is soothing music. I can only listen to it a few songs at a time though. One CD with 2 albums was a good buy however.

This cd is wonderful, great to hear these ole songs, and be able to sing
along with them. I keep it in my car, For anyone over 50 its a must have.

Young at Heart is an excellent CD. The stereo sound is amazing. I purchased it because I liked the vinyl record so well. Dancing with Tears in my Eyes and It's Dark on Observatory Hill are two of my favorite songs.
The other album, "It's the Talk of the Town" is almost as good with a wonderful rendition of My Heart Cries for You. Young At Heart is the best album Ray Conniff ever put out and I had most of them.

I have been searching for this album for a long, long time and was finally able to find it in Amazon's inventory. It's a wonderful album for all who enjoy music by Ray Conniff.

You do NOT have to be as old as I am to enjoy this collection! If you are not singing along with these tunes, I will be amazed. Another collection of "old standards," it is not "too old" to enjoy. Very rich treatments of songs we all know, and most of us loved. So-called "modern music" has so much to learn, and offers so little to be truly appreciated, by comparison! You'll LOVE it!

Great service on this product which is just what I wanted. Product arrive on time and as expected. Thanks for your help.

I joined the Columbia Record Club for the first of four times back when I was in ninth grade, in 1959. A couple of years later, I ordered the "Talk of the Town" LP. I was a New Jersey kid from a blue-collar household who yearned to be "sophisticated" and therefore was buying some jazz, some folk, some big band, some love songs, some Broadway and some classical music. This turned out to be one of my favorites throughout my high school years. Men and women choruses alternating verses really worked for me, a non-singing, non-playing, non-dancing nobody. "Buttons and Bows" and "Let's Put Out the Lights" and "Deep in the Heart of Texas" and "They Say It's Wonderful" either made me smile or sigh or hope for a better personal future. I never owned the companion LP, "Young at Heart" but it is almost as good. I was lucky to be a teen between 1957 and 1964. It many ways, it was a golden era, if not of music itself, then surely of recorded music. My children, ranging in age now from 19 to 33, have heard little of these classic song lyrics and treatments. My five granddaughters, aged one to 12, will hear even less of what is fondly termed "The Great American Songbook." I was fortunate to have been steeped in it, as well as a wide variety of artists in the other kinds of music I named above. Fifty years from now, will people my age (67) be posting Amazon reviews (or whatever form such opinions will take by then) of "Rap's Greatest Hits" with the fondness I feel for Ray Coniff and his singers, orchestra and song choices?