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| Raymond Kelley | |
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| Years active | 1956–present |
| Labels | Resort Music, Inc. |
| Website | resortmusic |
Raymond "Ray" Kelley is an American cellist and record producer. He is one of the cellists on The Simpsons: Testify and Family Guy: Live in Vegas, and Grammy Award winning Jonathan Livingston Seagull soundtrack album.
Since 1956, he has performed classical music for six years in the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, then five years with the Los Angeles Philharmonic orchestra until 1968. Kelley was part of a Hollywood session musician group named the Abnuceals Emuukha Electric Symphony Orchestra from 1959 to 1974. He has played cello on many major recording artists' albums over the years.
In 1988, he founded his own record label, Resort Music, Inc.
Discography
- 1990 – Oasis
- 1991 – Destinations
- 1993 – From the Heart
- 1995 – Windy City
- Featured on
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- 1966 – Freak Out!, The Mothers of Invention
- 1968 – The Birds, The Bees & The Monkees, The Monkees
- 1972 – Hot August Night, Neil Diamond
- 1974 – Here Comes Inspiration, Paul Williams
- 1977 – From Me to You, George Duke
- 1980 – Faces, Earth, Wind & Fire
- 1983 – The Clarke/Duke Project II, Stanley Clarke
References
- "Ray Kelley". Music Theatre International. Retrieved August 29, 2018.
External links
- Ray Kelley at AllMusic
- Ray Kelley at Discogs