{{Short description|American cellist and record producer (1938–2025)}} {{Infobox musical artist | name = Raymond Kelley | birth_date = February 26, 1938 | death_date = {{death date and age|2025|3|4|1938|2|26}} | background = non_vocal_instrumentalist | genre = {{hlist|Contemporary classical music|jazz}} | occupation = {{hlist|Cellist|record producer}} | years_active = 1956–2025 | label = Resort Music, Inc. | associated_acts = {{hlist|Dallas Symphony Orchestra|Los Angeles Philharmonic|Abnuceals Emuukha Electric Symphony Orchestra|The Ray Kelley Band}} | website = {{URL|resortmusic.com}} }}
'''Raymond "Ray" Kelley''' (February 26, 1938 – March 4, 2025)<ref name="death">[https://www.afm47.org/press/final-note-ray-kelley/ Final Note: Ray Kelley]. ''AFM''. Retrieved on May 10, 2025.</ref> 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.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.mtishows.com/people/ray-kelley|title=Ray Kelley|last=|first=|date=|website=Music Theatre International|language=en|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=August 29, 2018}}</ref> 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.
In 1988, he founded his own record label, Resort Music, Inc. He died on March 4, 2025, aged 87.<ref name="death" />
==Discography== * 1990 – ''Oasis'' * 1991 – ''Destinations'' * 1993 – ''From the Heart'' * 1995 – ''Windy City'' * 1997 – ''A Strand of Desert Pearls'' * 1999 ''– Sound On Wisconsin'' ;Featured on {{Expand section|date=August 2018}} *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''
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==External links== *[https://www.allmusic.com/artist/ray-kelley-mn0001186477 Ray Kelley] at AllMusic *[https://www.discogs.com/artist/304314-Ray-Kelley?limit=500&filter_anv=0&type=Credits&page=1 Ray Kelley] at Discogs
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