Raymond "Ray" Kelley (February 26, 1938 – March 4, 2025)Final Note: Ray Kelley. AFM. Retrieved on May 10, 2025. was an American cellist and record producer. He was 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 performed classical music for one season with the Salt Lake Symphony, then 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 1965 to 1974. He has played cello on many major recording artists' albums over the years. His work as a cellist included performances with orchestras as well as contributions to studio recordings.
In 1988, he founded his own record label, Resort Music, Inc. He died on March 4, 2025, aged 87.
Discography 1990 – Oasis 1991 – Destinations 1993 – From the Heart 1995 – Windy City 1997 – A Strand of Desert Pearls 1999 – Sound On Wisconsin Featured on
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 1994 – Muzak Sixtieth Anniversary, instrumental cover of Riders on the Storm
References
External links Ray Kelley at AllMusic Ray Kelley at Discogs