After the less successful Dance the Bop, on his third album
Ray Conniff returned to the formula with which he had found success on his first album,
'S Wonderful!, once again turning out a set of lively arrangements of standards featuring a wordless chorus, with the deliberately similar title
'S Marvelous again evoking the
Gershwin song. Along with
Gershwin, the featured composers included
Cole Porter,
Richard Rodgers, and
Jerome Kern, and the album was even more popular than its predecessor, lodging in the Top Ten and going gold. With that,
Conniff was off to the races, cloning this style on dozens of subsequent releases. ~ William Ruhlmann