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01:01:09 69.71
ART FEIN INTERVIEWS CROONER JOHNNY RAY - WITH MARK LEVITON FROM " WARNER SPECIAL PRODUCTS" AND BILLY VERA
01:03:22 202.35
ART FEIN TALKS TO CROONER JOHNNY RAY ABOUT HIS EARLY CAREER
01:03:34 214.23
MARK LEVITON TALKS ABOUT THE OKEH LABEL THAT COLUMBIA OWNED AND REACTIVATED IN 1950 AS A "RACE" LABEL WITH LAVERN BAKER BEING THE FIRST HIT MAKER - ALSO COUNTRY ON OKEH - REACTIVATED FROM THE 1930'S
01:04:52 292.81
CROONER JOHNNIE RAY TALKS ABOUT HIS EARLY YEARS - BORN IN OREGON, MOVED TO DETROIT WHERE HE PERFORMED AT THE " FLAME SHOW BAR " WITH LAVERN BAKER FOR SEVERAL MONTHS - BECAME FRIENDS - SINGING R&B AND BLUES - JOHNNIE RAY TALKS ABOUT HOW THE AFRICAN AMERICAN AUDIENCES ACCEPTED HIM AS HIS ROOTS WERE WITH BLUES AND R&B - SANG TO BLACK AND WHITE AUDIENCES - TALKS ABOUT BEING NAIVE AND NOT KNOWING IF SOMETHING HE WAS DOING WAS UNUSUAL OR NIGHT- TALKS ABOUT HIS HANDICAP BEING DEAF AND LEARNING HOW TO LIVE WITH IT AND HOW TO BECOME A DEAF SINGER - DISCUSSES HO HANDICAP AND DEAFNESS
01:08:08 488.4
JOHNNIE RAY TALSK ABOUT HIS EARLY HYSTERICAL TEENAGE FANS, HOW IT STARTED WITH SINATRA - TEENAGE HYSTERIA IN THE 1940'S AND HOW IT MOVED ON AND WAS THE SAME FOR HIM - JOHNNIE RAY TALKS ABOUT HIS EARLY FANS, HYSTERIA MANIA FOR HIM FROM HIS FANS
01:10:17 617.49
JOHNNIE RAY TALKS ABOUT SOME OF THE EARLY SONGS HE SANG LIKE " SUCH A NIGHT" " CRY" WITH THESE HANDS" WALKING IN THE RAIN, LITTLE WHITE CLOUD THAT CRIED " I SHOWED EMOTIONS AND EXPRESSED THEM ON STAGE "
01:12:13 733.23
JOHNNIE RAY TALKS ABOUT WRITING " THE LITTLE WHITE CLOUD THAT CRIED" AND " CRY" WRITTEN BY CHURCHILL WHO WAS A NIGHT WATCHMAN WHO WROTE " CRY" MITCH MILLER PRODUCER AT COLUMBIA GAVE JOHNNY RAY THE SONG - WITH THE FOUR LADS - AND MITCH MILLER GOT HIM TO RECORD "CRY" TALKS ABOUT THE SESSION FOR " CRY" AT COLUMBIA " DID IT IN TWO TAKES" - ART FEIN PLAYS THE RECORD OF " CRY"
01:15:27 927.49
JOHNNY RAY TALKS ABOUT STAN FREEBERG'S SONG PARODY COMEDY RECORD OF " CRY" "STAN RAN AWAY FROM ME, HE THOUGHT I WAS MAD AT HIM BUT I LOVED THE RECORD"
01:15:48 948.6
JOHNNIE RAY DISCUSSES HIS 1960'S RECORD " JUST WALKING IN THE RAIN" WHICH THEY COVERED FROM THE PRISONAIRES ON SUN RECORDS ( BLACK VOCAL GROUP )
01:18:33 1113.25
JOHNNIE RAY TALKS ABOUT RECORDING WITH MITCH MILLER WHO ADVISED HIM HOW TO APPROACH THAT SONG " THINK DIRTY" AND HOW JOHNNIE FOUND OUT IT WAD A NUMBER ONE RECORD FROM READING VARIETY - IT BECAME NUMBER ONE WITHOUT ANY PUBLICITY
01:21:28 1288.71
JOHNNIE RAY INTERVIEW - TALKS ABOUT HIS VOCAL BACKING GROUP THE FOUR LADS BEFORE THEY HAD HIT RECORDS ON THEIR OWN - TALKS ABOUT RECORDING AND THE MUSICIANS HE WORKED WITH
01:22:22 1342.84
JOHNNIE RAY TALKS ABOUT HOW HE NOW PERFORMS WITH JUST A RHYTHM SECTION AND HOW HE HAD TO ADAPT TO THAT FROM USING A LARGE ORCHESTRA
01:23:52 1432.48
JOHNNIE RAY TALKS ABOUT WORKING REGULARLY WITH CERTAIN MUSICIANS WHO HELP YOUR ACT AS THEY KNOW HOW TO PROPERLY WORK WITH YOU - JOHNNY RAY TALKS ABOUT HIS CURRENT TOURS AND PERFORMANCES ( CIRCA LATE 1980'S)
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Year: 1988  Color: Color
Genre: TV TALK SHOWS

Description: EPISODE 155 - APRIL 26, 1988 LEVITON, VERA, JOHNNIE RAY

Keywords: interview


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