Ray Ellis, born Raymond Spencer Ellis in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United
States, on July 28, 1923, was an American record producer, arranger, conductor,
saxophonist, and composer who lived until 2008. He established himself as a
prominent studio arranger and conductor in the 1950s, arranging and conducting
the orchestration for Billie Holiday's 1958 Columbia Records album Lady in Satin
and her 1959 album Last Recording. Throughout the 1960s, Ellis arranged albums
for major vocalists, including Barbra Streisand's The Third Album in 1963, Lena
Horne's Here's Lena in 1966, and Li...