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Feb 25, 1990 · TIMES STAFF WRITER. LOS ANGELES —. Johnnie Ray, the balladeer of tears who brought an emotional intensity to music that was singular to his era, died Saturday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center....
Feb 26, 1990 · Johnnie Ray, a singer whose emotionally uninhibited hit recordings in the early 1950's anticipated the rock-and-roll era, died of liver failure on Saturday in Los Angeles. He was 63 years old....
Broadcast: Tuesday, Oct. 25. Late Oregon musician Johnnie Ray had major hits in the 1950s. courtesy of Gary Norris. Oregon had its own “father of rock & roll.” Some have called Johnnie Ray,...
Meet Oregon’s ‘father of rock & roll’. By Kami Horton (OPB) Oct. 11, 2022 5 a.m. Johnnie Ray. Ray family. Seventy-one years ago, Oregon farm boy Johnnie Ray shook the music world when he...
John Alvin Ray (January 10, 1927 – February 24, 1990) was an American singer, songwriter, and pianist. Highly popular for most of the 1950s, Ray has been cited by critics as a major precursor to what became rock and roll, for his jazz and blues -influenced music, and his animated stage personality. Tony Bennett called Ray the "father of rock ...
Johnnie Ray (1927-1990) Actor. Music Department. Additional Crew. IMDbPro Starmeter See rank. Play trailer 2:45. There's No Business Like Show Business (1954) One of the greatest of the transition singers between the crooners and the rockers, Johnnie Ray was the only son of Elmer and Hazel Ray.
Feb 25, 1990 · Johnnie Ray, a singer whose emotionally uninhibited hit recordings in the early 1950's anticipated the rock-and-roll era, died of liver failure yesterday in Los Angeles. He was 63 years old....
