Johnnie Ray from the trailer for one of his few films, There's No Business Like Show Business (1954)

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Extremely popular for most of the 1950s, Ray has been cited by critics as a "major precursor"^[1] of what would become rock 'n' roll, for his jazz and blues-influenced music and his animated stage persona. He was partially deaf because of an injury sustained at the age of 13. Rock and roll - Wikipedia /**/ @import /skins/monobook/IE50Fixes. ... For other uses, see Jazz (disambiguation). ... Blues is a vocal and instrumental form of music based on the use of the blue notes and a repetitive pattern that most often follows a twelve-bar structure. ...

By the late 1950s, his major success was over in the United States. One possible reason for his fast decline was that Confidential and other American tabloid magazines alleged that Johnnie Ray was gay. But they said as much prior to 1957, when they were discredited in a notorious trial on a charge of "conspiracy to commit criminal libel," which makes their impact on Ray's career impossible to determine. A failed surgical procedure to treat his partial deafness in 1958 was probably a more important factor in his decline because the worsening of his hearing loss cut him off from American songwriters on whom he depended. (Though he wrote music and lyrics for his breakthrough hit song The Little White Cloud That Cried, most of his other hits were penned by American songwriters.) Johnnie Ray continued to play major venues in the United Kingdom and Australia until the late 1980s, but he did not release any studio recordings after 1961. Confidential, July 1957. ... This article discusses the way the word deaf is used and how deafness is perceived by hearing and Deaf communities. ...

Biography

Early life

Ray was born in Hopewell, Oregon, and spent part of his childhood on a farm, eventually moving to Portland, Oregon. His publicity agent claimed, correctly, that Ray was of Native American origin. His great-grandmother was a full-blooded Indian and his great-grandfather was Oregon pioneer George Kirby Gay of Berkeley, Gloucestershire, England. He became deaf in his right ear at age 13 after an accident during a Boy Scout ritual in which the scouts threw him high in the air and then tried to catch him with a blanket they held taut as they stood in a circle. They failed to catch Johnnie and he fell on the ground, hitting his ear. He later performed his music wearing a mauve hearing aid. Surgery performed in New York in 1958, when he was 31, left him almost completely deaf in both ears, although hearing aids continued to make his life possible without sign language. Hopewell is an unincorporated community in Yamhill County, Oregon, United States. ... Nickname: Location in Multnomah County and the state of Oregon Coordinates: , Country United States State Oregon County Multnomah County Incorporated February 8, 1851 Government  - Mayor Tom Potter Area  - City 376. ... Native Americans in the United States are the indigenous peoples from the regions of North America now encompassed by the continental United States, including parts of Alaska. ... Berkeley (pronounced ) is a town between the south bank of the River Severn and the M5 motorway in Gloucestershire, England, at grid reference ST685992. ... For other uses, see England (disambiguation). ... This article discusses the way the word deaf is used and how deafness is perceived by hearing and Deaf communities. ... For the Boy Scouting program within the BSA, see Boy Scouting (Boy Scouts of America). ... Behind the ear aid For the song, see Flood (album). ...

Beginnings of career

Ray first attracted attention while performing at the Flame Showbar in Detroit, an R&B nightclub where he was the only white performer. Inspired by rhythm singers like Kay Starr, LaVern Baker and Ivory Joe Hunter, Ray developed a unique rhythm-based style that was far closer to what would become known as "rock and roll" than any other music of the time. Much like Frankie Laine before him, Ray was often mistaken for a black artist when his records first earned radio play. Nickname: Motto: Speramus Meliora; Resurget Cineribus (Latin for, We Hope For Better Things; It Shall Rise From the Ashes) Location in Wayne County, Michigan Coordinates: , Country State County Wayne County Founded 1701 Incorporation 1806 Government  - Type Strong Mayor-Council  - Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick (D) Area  - City  143. ... Rhythm and blues (or R & B) is a musical marketing term introduced in the United States in the late 1940s by Billboard magazine. ... Kay Starr on the cover of 2002 collection The Definitive Kay Starr on Capitol Kay Starr (born July 21, 1922) is an American jazz and popular singer. ... LaVern Baker (November 11, 1929 – March 10, 1997) was an American Rhythm & Blues singer, originally billed as Little Miss Sharecropper, then Bea Baker. She had taken the first name LaVern by 1952, when she began recording with Todd Rhodes and his band. ... For the Motown producer-songwriter, see Ivy Joe Hunter. ... Frankie Laine, born Francesco Paolo LoVecchio (March 30, 1913 – February 6, 2007), was one of the most successful American singers of the twentieth century. ...

Success

His first record, the self-penned R&B number for OKeh Records, "Whiskey and Gin," was a minor hit in 1951. Later that year, he would be dominating the charts with the double-sided monster hit single of "Cry" (penned by a songwriter whom he didn't know personally) backed by "The Little White Cloud That Cried" (a Ray composition). Selling over a million copies of the single, Ray's emotional delivery struck a chord with teenagers, and he quickly became the biggest teen idol since Frank Sinatra almost ten years earlier. Ray has been cited as the historical link between Frank Sinatra and Elvis Presley in the development of popular music. Okeh Records began as an independent record label based in the United States of America in 1918; from the late 1920s on was a subsidiary of Columbia Records. ... Year 1951 (MCMLI) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... For other uses, see Teen idol (disambiguation). ... “Sinatra” redirects here. ... Elvis Aron Presley (January 8, 1935 – August 16, 1977), often known simply as Elvis and also called The King of Rock n Roll or simply The King, was an American singer, musician and actor. ...

Ray's unorthodox performing style included many theatrics later associated with rock 'n' roll, including beating up his piano, writhing on the floor and, most famously, crying. Also like Laine, his shows were often compared to religious revival meetings with the singer and audience both reaching an emotional frenzy. Ray quickly earned a plethora of nicknames including "The Atomic Ray," "Mr. Emotion," "The Nabob of Sob," "The Cry Guy" and "The Prince of Wails." In the documentary film No Direction Home, Bob Dylan cites Ray as an early influence, stating that Ray's singing and performance style seemed "voodooed". DVD cover No Direction Home is a documentary by Martin Scorsese that traces the life of Bob Dylan, and how he managed to make such a big impact in the 20th century. ... This article is about the recording artist. ... Voodoo (Vodou, Vodoun, Vudu, or Vudun in Benin, Togo, southeastern Ghana, Burkina Faso, and Senegal; also Vodou in Haiti) is a name attributed to a traditionally uten West African spiritual system of faith and ritual practices. ...

More hits followed, including "Please Mr. Sun," "Such A Night," "Walkin' My Baby Back Home," "A Sinner Am I" and "Yes Tonight Josephine." His last hit was "Just Walkin' in the Rain," in 1956. He was even more popular in the UK than in the U.S., breaking the record at the London Palladium formerly set by Frankie Laine. Although his star rapidly diminished in the US, he retained a loyal fan base overseas, particularly in Australia. Year 1956 (MCMLVI) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Motto: (Out Of Many, One) (traditional) In God We Trust (1956 to date) Anthem: The Star-Spangled Banner Capital Washington D.C. Largest city New York City None at federal level (English de facto) Government Federal constitutional republic  - President George Walker Bush (R)  - Vice President Dick Cheney (R) Independence from...

Personal life and scandals

As wild off the stage as on, Ray soon became fodder for tabloids like Confidential and Hush-Hush that conspired to destroy his phenomenal popularity (at one point he had four of the top songs on the charts in one week out of the Top Ten). But, ironically, he was ultimately a victim of the rock 'n' roll genre he did so much to establish. As younger artists came to dominate the music charts, the thirtysomething Johnnie Ray was soon left by the wayside. Confidential, July 1957 Gossip magazines, which featured scandalous gossip about the personal lives of celebrities, were at their peak in the 1950s. ... Confidential, July 1957. ...

Though Ray married Marilyn Morrison in 1952, his wife was supposedly aware of the singer's alleged bisexuality. She believed she would be able to "straighten it out." Their separation and divorce were major news items in 1953 and 1954. The explanations given by the couple and newspaper columnists such as Louella Parsons were similar to the ambiguous reasons announced by many other divorcing entertainers in that era. Some years later, in the 1960s, Ray's manager Bill Franklin was said to be his lover. (It is known that he was the singer's personal manager.) Johnnie Ray was arrested by a Detroit vice squad officer and prosecuted for indecency while touring in 1959. Despite an acquittal by an all-female jury ten days later, the incident caused some verbal gossip about Ray's homosexual leanings, but only one tabloid article sensationalized, in print, his brush with the law, and it appeared several months later. Gossip journalism had changed drastically in 1957. The "Hollywood Research" publishing company that had done all the Ray-bashing was ordered to clean up its act in a 1957 criminal trial. “Bisexual” redirects here. ... Louella Parsons (August 6, 1881 – December 9, 1972) was an American gossip columnist. ... Motto: Speramus Meliora; Resurget Cineribus (We Hope For Better Things; It Shall Rise From the Ashes - this motto was adopted after the disastrous 1805 fire that devastated the city) Nickname: The Motor City and Motown Location in Wayne County, Michigan Founded Incorporated July 24, 1701 1815  County Wayne County Mayor...

Among the bitter confessions made by magazine editor Howard Rushmore on the witness stand was an admission that he had written at least one anti-Johnnie Ray story under a pseudonym. His testimony and that of other witnesses, including Dorothy Dandridge, established that Confidential and the other tabloid magazines of 1952 - 1957 had relied on questionable sources. One anti-Ray article in 1953 had quoted a male psychiatrist claiming that all male homosexuals are affected by a secret menstrual cycle. Dorothy Jean Dandridge (November 9, 1922–September 8, 1965) was an American actress. ...

Decline in success

After the loquacious Rushmore shot his wife and then himself to death in early 1958, more open-minded Americans of the time realized that Ray had been smeared deliberately. By that time, however, the rapid rise of rock 'n' roll and his failed 1958 ear surgery had cut him off from the songwriters that were so vital to less rhythmic singers like himself, Tony Bennett and Johnny Mathis, who penned little of their own material. When rock 'n' roll proved in the 1960s that it was here to stay, and not a fad for screaming adolescents, Bennett and Mathis continued to score hits penned by songwriters, but Ray recorded rock-oriented material that often seemed wrong for him. His relationship with his last American record label ended in 1961. Ray disappeared from the American television networks until a Hollywood Palace appearance in 1968, by which time serious music fans liked the fact that rock 'n' roll bands wrote nearly all of their own material, often collaboratively. For other persons named Tony Bennett, see Tony Bennett (disambiguation). ... John Royce Mathis (b. ... The Hollywood Palace was an hour-long television variety show produced by Nick Vanoff. ...

Later career and death

Ray had a close relationship with journalist and television game show panelist Dorothy Kilgallen with whom he is widely thought to have had an affair. The boost she gave to his sagging career during his engagement at the Tropicana Resort & Casino in Las Vegas happened shortly before her 1965 death, suggesting that she might have reversed his fate in the music business had she lived. (Kilgallen was almost singlehandedly responsible for the rise to fame of singer/pianist Bobby Short in the United States of the 1950s, according to statements he made decades later.) Dorothy Mae Kilgallen (July 3, 1913 – November 8, 1965) was an Irish-American journalist and television game show panelist, perhaps best known nationally for her syndicated newspaper column, The Voice of Broadway, and her role as panelist on the television game show Whats My Line?. She was born in... The Tropicana Resort & Casino is located on the Las Vegas Strip in Las Vegas, Nevada. ... Las Vegas is pernounced Los . ... Bobby Short (born September 15, 1924) is an American cabaret singer known for his interpretation of songs by early 20th century composers like Rodgers and Hart and Cole Porter. ...

Ray's American career revived in the 1970s, but only to a limited extent. His manager Bill Franklin resigned in 1976 and cut off contact with the singer a few years later. Johnnie Ray never appeared on The Love Boat, which became a high-profile network television haven for performers of earlier generations, many of them best known for musical comedy, whose popularity had faded. (Ray had performed in Guys and Dolls at the State Fair of Texas in Dallas in 1958. Two of his co-stars in There's No Business Like Show Business appeared on The Love Boat.) The reason entertainment bookers and songwriters ignored him in the 1980s was not homophobia, but rather the fact that they simply didn't know who he was or what his sound was like. In the 1980s, Ray appeared at televised European fundraisers for the March of Dimes, but his American television exposure was limited to a few seconds in an MTV video for Dexys Midnight Runners (originally aired in 1982) and a few seconds in a Billy Idol video (1986). (These artists are from the United Kingdom, where Johnnie Ray remained popular.) The 1970s decade refers to the years from 1970 to 1979, also called The Seventies. ... The Love Boat was an American television series set on a cruise ship, which aired on the ABC Television Network from 1977 until 1986. ... Guys and Dolls Original Broadway Cast recording (1950) Guys And Dolls is a hit 1950 musical, with the music and lyrics written by Frank Loesser. ... The Texas Star, North Americas largest ferris wheel at the State Fair of Texas The State Fair of Texas is an annual state fair held in Dallas, Texas (USA). ... Dallas redirects here. ... Perhaps one of the most famous, and recognizable, show-tunes ever is Theres No Business Like Show Business. This Irving Berlin marvel was written for Annie Get Your Gun and has two reprises within the show. ... The Love Boat was an American television series set on a cruise ship, which aired on the ABC Television Network from 1977 until 1986. ... The March of Dimes is a voluntary health charity founded in 1938 by United States President Franklin Delano Roosevelt as the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis to defeat polio, a disease which crippled him. ... MTV (Music Television) is an American cable television network based in New York City. ... Too-Rye-Ay (1982) Dexys Midnight Runners – the name consistently spelled without an apostrophe [1] – were a British New Wave and Northern Soul band, who achieved their major success in the early to mid 1980s. ... Billy Idol (born William Michael Albert Broad, 30 November 1955 in Middlesex) is an English rock musician. ...

A chronic alcoholic, in 1990 he died of liver failure in Los Angeles at the age of 63. Alcoholism is the consumption of, or preoccupation with, alcoholic beverages to the extent that this behavior interferes with the drinkers normal personal, family, social, or work life, and may lead to physical or mental harm. ... Liver failure is the final stage of liver disease. ... Flag Seal Nickname: City of Angels Location Location within Los Angeles County in the state of California Coordinates , Government State County California Los Angeles County Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa (D) Geographical characteristics Area     City 1,290. ...

Hit singles

(1951)

• "Cry" (with The Four Lads), Columbia 30th St Studio, NYC, October 16, 1951; Mundell Lowe (g) Ed Safranski (b) Ed Shaughnessy (d) Buddy Reed (p)
• "Give Me Time" (with The Four Lads)
• "(Here Am I) Brokenhearted" (with The Four Lads)
• "The Little White Cloud That Cried", Columbia 30th St Studio, NYC, October 15, 1951; Mundell Lowe (g) Ed Safranski (b) Ed Shaughnessy (d) Stan Freeman (p) Lucky Thompson (sax)
• "She Didn't Say Nothin' At All"
• "Tell The Lady I Said Goodbye"
• "Whiskey And Gin'"

(1952)

• "All Of Me"
• "A Sinner Am I"
• "Candy Lips" (with Doris Day)
• "Coffee And Cigarettes (Think It Over)" (with The Four Lads)
• "Don't Blame Me"
• "Faith Can Move Mountains" (with The Four Lads)
• "Let's Walk That-A-Way (with Doris Day)
• "Mountains In The Moonlight"
• "Out In The Cold Again"
• "Please Mr. Sun (with The Four Lads)
• "The Lady Drinks Champagne"
• "Walkin' My Baby Back Home"

(1953)

• "Somebody Stole My Gal"

(1954)

• "Alexander's Ragtime Band"
• "As Time Goes By"
• "Going-Going-Gone"
• "Hernando's Hideaway"
• "Hey There"
• "If You Believe and Such A Night"
• "Such A Night"

(1955)

• "Flip Flop And Fly"
• "I've Got So Many Million Years"
• "Ooh! Aah! Oh!"
• "Paths Of Paradise / Song Of The Dreamer"

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• "Everyday I Have The Blues"
• "How Long How Long Blues"
• "I Want To Be Loved"
• "I'll Never Be Free"
• "I'm Gonna Move To The Outskirts Of Town"
• "Just Walking In The Rain"
• "Lotus Blossom"
• "Sent For You Yesterday"
• "Shake A Hand"

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• "Look Homeward Angel"
• "Should I?"
• "Soliloquy Of A Fool"
• "Street Of Memories"
• "Up Above My Head" (with Frankie Laine)
• "You Don't Owe Me A Thing"
• "Yes Tonight Josephine"

(1958)

• "I'm Beginning To See The Light"
• "I'm Confessin'"
• "The Lonely Ones"
• "Up Until Now"

(1959)

• "Cool Water"
• "Empty Saddles"
• "I'll Never Fall In Love Again"
• "It's All In The Game"
• "Red River Valley"
• "Twilight On The Trail"
• "Wagon Wheels"
• "When It's Springtime In The Rockies"

(1960)

• "I'll Make You Mine"

(1961)

• "Lookout Chattanooga"

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Film and television

• Starring role in the TV movie The Big Shot in 1955, introduced live on network television by Ronald Reagan
• Featured role in There's No Business Like Show Business with Ethel Merman and Marilyn Monroe in 1954
• Hosted The Jackie Gleason Show when Gleason was absent from show
• Numerous appearances on Talk Of The Town and The Ed Sullivan Show, the last in 1958.
• Performed for March of Dimes televised charity events in the 1980s
• Featured role in television series CHiPs as himself, two episodes
• Guest starring role in Bob Eubanks' Atlantic City Live and on the syndicated Sha Na Na variety show
• Profiled in hour long documentary feature The Little White Kid That Cried (2002) for London Weekend Television's The South Bank Show

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Trivia

• Referenced in the hit 1982 song "Come On Eileen" by the English pop group Dexy's Midnight Runners ("Poor old Johnnie Ray sounded sad upon the radio / he moved a million hearts in mono"). The video for "Come On Eileen" even starts off with archival footage of Johnnie Ray coming off an airplane and facing a throng of his adoring teenaged fans.
• Mentioned in Billy Joel's history themed song "We Didn't Start the Fire".
• Mentioned in The Who's 2006 single "Mirror Door"
• Features in "The Lost Art of Keeping Secrets" by Eva Rice, in which the main character is a fan of his.
• Was mentioned in Billy Idol's "Don't Need a Gun" and appeared in the song's video.
• The talent show sequence in the 1982 film "Grease 2" features a parody of Johnnie Ray.
• Referenced in Jimmy Ray's 1997 song "Are You Jimmy Ray?" ("(Are you Johnnie Ray) who wants to know"))
• Portishead's song "Biscuit" (from Dummy (1994) features a sample of Ray, though it sounds like an LP record played at slow-speed.
• Mentioned in the Van Morrison song "Sometimes We Cry" ("Not like Johnny Ray").
• Mentioned in the Robert Plant song "White, Clean, and Neat" ("Not quite like Mr. Johnny Ray").
• A key figure in Eva Rice's novel The Lost Art of Keeping Secrets.

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References

• Guinness Book of British Hit Singles - 16th Edition - ISBN 0-85112-190-X
• The Guinness Book of 500 Number One Hits - ISBN 0-85112-250-7

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External links

• The Johnnie Ray International Fan Club
• Ray, Johnnie (1927-1990)
• Biography
• Johnnie Ray at the Internet Movie Database