Raymond-Hartley-Obituary

Raymond O. Hartley

New York, New York

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1925 - 2014RAY HARTLEY, OAM Ray Hartley OAM, pianist/songwriter, died peacefully November 15, 2014 in NYC at the age of 89. As a leading performer at New York's finest New York supper clubs in the 1960s to 1980s, Mr. Hartley romanced audiences at the Waldorf-Astoria's Peacock Alley, the...

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In loving memory of a wonderful person. We will love you and miss you always. Your sensitivity & compassion for those less fortunate or talented is an indelible memory.

Turning your head and smiling at me. . . .

Love Requiem for Ray Hartley

It's too late now. You've left.
My Life kept getting in the way.
All these years, decades, your music has hypnotized me, sustained me.
Now, I, too, am an old lady.
And it's too late to tell this to you in person, as I had dreamed.
Whatever cosmos you are in now, you will know, anyway,
despite Life taking you away.

It must have been around 1960 when my mother purchased
The Trembling of a Leaf and The Sound of the Sea LP. ...

Lovely tripute