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with the songs "I Must Have Your Love" and "Together" (1953). Bloch wrote songs such as "When Love Has Gone", "You're
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to serve as "musical conductor for all disks by individual singers". The Ray Bloch
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in the early 1930s, and followed that as a conductor for choral groups. In 1939 he joined the CBS radio variety show
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