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    from obscurity in the United States with the release of his debut album Johnnie Ray (1952), as well as with a 78 rpm single, both of whose sides reached...
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  • Johnnie Ray is the debut studio album by Johnnie Ray. The album was released as a 10-inch LP and 78 rpm and 45 rpm box set and was the first album in the...
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    Clooney, Marty Robbins, Frankie Laine, Johnny Mathis, Guy Mitchell and Johnnie Ray. He wrote a top-10 arrangement for Don Cherry's "Band of Gold" in 1955...
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  • consisting of Ethel Merman, Donald O'Connor, Marilyn Monroe, Dan Dailey, Johnnie Ray, and Mitzi Gaynor. The title is borrowed from the famous song in the...
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  • York City by Johnnie Ray and The Four Lads on October 16, 1951. Singer Ronnie Dove also had a big hit with the song in 1966. Johnnie Ray recorded the...
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    Johnnie Ray had four songs on the year-end top 30....
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    himself an anachronism. First Frankie Laine, then Tony Bennett, and now Johnnie (Ray), dubbed 'the Belters' and 'the Exciters,' came along with a brash vibrancy...
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  • The Little White Cloud That Cried (category Johnnie Ray songs)
    Cried" is a popular song written by Johnnie Ray and published in 1951. The biggest hit version was recorded by Ray and The Four Lads in 1951. The recording...
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  • Hernando's Hideaway (category Johnnie Ray songs)
    number of artists had hit recordings of it, including Archie Bleyer, Johnnie Ray, The Johnston Brothers, and Ella Fitzgerald. According to author Dave...
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    the American singer Johnnie Ray, who toured Australia to great acclaim in the 1950s and O'Keefe began his singing career as a Ray impersonator. During...
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  • p. Moore, p. 44 "5000 Greet Johnnie Ray", The Central Queensland Herald, Rockhampton, 17 March 1955, p. 29 "Johnnie Ray is frantic", The Mirror, Perth...
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  • Hey There (category Johnnie Ray songs)
    reaching No. 16 on Billboard's retail chart. Another 1954 version by Johnnie Ray peaked on the Billboard chart at No. 27. The song (counting all recorded...
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    featured Ray Anthony and his orchestra. In March 1955 O'Connell visited Australia as a support act on the landmark tour headlined by singer Johnnie Ray, which...
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  • Ain't Misbehavin' (song) (category Johnnie Ray songs)
    Frankie Laine, Art Tatum, Floyd Pepper, Sonny Stitt, Sam Cooke, Johnnie Ray, Sidney Bechet, Ray Charles, Nat King Cole, Elkie Brooks, Eyran Katsenelenbogen...
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  • Just Walkin' in the Rain (category Johnnie Ray songs)
    in 1953. However, the best-known version of the song was recorded by Johnnie Ray on July 16, 1956 on the label Columbia Records; it reached No. 2 on the...
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  • "Johnnie Ray (1927-1990)". Oregon Encyclopedia. May 1, 2019. Retrieved January 10, 2024. had a dozen gold records "Before Elvis, there was Johnnie Ray...
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  • All of Me (jazz standard) (category Johnnie Ray songs)
    He also sang it in the film Meet Danny Wilson, which may have helped Johnnie Ray's rendition up to No. 12 in the charts that year. Willie Nelson's recording...
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    after Ethel Merman, Dan Dailey, Marilyn Monroe, Donald O'Connor, and Johnnie Ray. Gaynor married Jack Bean, a talent agent and public relations executive...
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  • Cool Water (song) (category Johnnie Ray songs)
    "Cool Water" is a song written in 1936 by Bob Nolan. It is about a parched man and his mule traveling a wasteland tormented by mirages. Members of the...
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    sing backup for some of the artists he recorded. One of those artists, Johnnie Ray, became a major hit in 1951 with "Cry" and "The Little White Cloud That...
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  • "Rothko Chapel 2" (Morton Feldman) – UC Berkeley Chamber Chorus "Cry" – Johnnie Ray "On the Nature of Daylight" – Max Richter "Uaxuctum: The Legend of the...
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  • Stringer. American singer Bobby Denver, known as the "Crying Crooner" (a la Johnnie Ray) stays with a stockbroker's family by mistake when he comes to England...
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    he was entertaining his parents with impressions of Jimmy Durante and Johnnie Ray. By age three, he was in the Dalcroze Eurhythmics program at the Cleveland...
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  • Red River Valley (song) (category Johnnie Ray songs)
    "Red River Valley" is a folk song and cowboy music standard of uncertain origins that has gone by different names (such as "Cowboy Love Song", "Bright...
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  • (Terrorvision song), a 1998 song "Yes Tonight Josephine", a 1957 song by Johnnie Ray "Josephine", a 1955 song from the musical Silk Stockings, recorded by...
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    Such a Night (category Johnnie Ray songs)
    song also became a hit single for Johnnie Ray, whose cover version reached No. 1 in the UK Singles Chart in 1954. Ray's version entered the US Cash Box...
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    surname was taken from Miller's first name), Johnnie Ray, The Four Lads, Rosemary Clooney, Kay Lande, Ray Conniff, Jerry Vale and Johnny Mathis. He also...
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    Benton and Dinah Washington. Later that year she recorded as a duo with Johnnie Ray. She charted some further minor hits including "Smile" (No. 42), opened...
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  • Candy Lips (category Johnnie Ray songs)
    is a song written by Fred Rose and performed by Doris Day featuring Johnnie Ray with Paul Weston and His Orchestra. In 1953, the track reached No. 17...
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  • Crosby CBS Radio Recordings (1954–56) issued by Mosaic in 2009. Johnnie Ray Johnnie Ray with The Buddy Cole Quartet, (Columbia Records CL-6199, 1952) Following...
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