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" Johnnie Ray had a long run of hits in the early half of the decade, often backed by The Four Lads, including: " Cry ," " The Little White Cloud That Cried ," " Walking My Baby Back Home ," " Please, Mr. Sun ," and " Just Walkin ' in the Rain.
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This is a tour of American music — jump blues, slow blues, rockabilly, Tin Pan Alley ballads, Country Swing — that evokes the sprawl, fatalism and subversive humor of Dylan's sacred text, Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music, the pre-rock voicings of Hank Williams, Charley Patton and Johnnie Ray, among others, and the ultradry humor of Groucho Marx.
Popular music stars in the early 1950s included Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennett, Frankie Laine, Patti Page, Judy Garland, Johnnie Ray, Kay Starr, Perry Como, Bing Crosby, Rosemary Clooney, Dean Martin, Georgia Gibbs, Eddie Fisher, Teresa Brewer, Dinah Shore, Kitty Kallen, Joni James, Peggy Lee, Julie London, Toni Arden, June Valli, Doris Day, Arthur Godfrey, Tennessee Ernie Ford, Guy Mitchell, Nat King Cole, and vocal groups like The Mills Brothers, The Ink Spots, The Four Lads, The Four Aces, The Chordettes, Fontane Sisters, The Hilltoppers and The Ames Brothers.
The song has been recorded by many artists, including The Andrews Sisters, Louis Armstrong, Ray Charles, Johnnie Ray, Bee Gees, Bing Crosby, Ella Fitzgerald, George Formby, Al Jolson, Liberace, Billy Murray, Liza Minnelli, Sid Phillips, Bessie Smith and Julie Andrews.
Among the artists during Okeh's " pop " phase of the 50s and 60s were Johnnie Ray, Little Joe & The Thrillers.
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It was a vivid, sharp February morning that Johnnie first made his appearance in my back yard, bringing some stuff Dad had ordered.
I guess she was between affairs or something, but anyway, she had set her sights on Johnnie, my Johnnie.
A man had to have his release -- at least that's what the boys used to say in high school -- and I wasn't providing it for Johnnie.
And, though at the time I blushed to admit it even to myself, there was in me a growing desire, a sexual awareness, that Johnnie had set in motion, an awareness that no other man had ever triggered.
I had always resisted the passes made at me by other kids, and many times I had thought about my love for Johnnie who, being thirty, brought a maturity to love that the kids around town could know nothing about.
My folks wouldn't dream of having alcohol in the house, so my first taste of it had been -- of course -- with Johnnie.
Even a 1958 return to KVOO, where his younger brother Johnnie Lee Wills had maintained the family's presence, did not produce the success he hoped for.
They had a young star in the likes of Jack Clark, along with veteran first baseman Willie McCovey, second baseman Bill Madlock ( whom the Giants had acquired from the Chicago Cubs ,) shortstops Johnnie LeMaster and Roger Metzger, and third baseman Darrell Evans.
She described her shock and sorrow in her diary and letters, extracts of which were published after her death: " our poor darling little Johnnie had passed away suddenly ...
* John Gosling's book on the robbery theorised that the theft had been masterminded by a cashiered British army officer ' Johnnie Rainbow '.
In a 2008 conversation with BBC Radio 2's Johnnie Walker, Cropper revealed that the record became an instant success when DJ Reuben Washington, at Memphis radio station WLOK, played the song four times in succession, this even before the tune or the band had an agreed-upon name.
However, Finch had an enormously successful career throughout the 1960s and 1970s, winning BAFTA Awards for his performances in The Trials of Oscar Wilde ( 1960 ) ( in the title role ), No Love for Johnnie ( 1961 ) and Sunday Bloody Sunday ( 1971 ).
The band had a rotating cast of players which included Narada Michael Walden, Mark Stein, Norma Jean Bell, Reggie McBride, Jimmy Haslip, Max Carl Gronenthal and eventually Bolin's younger brother Johnnie Bolin on drums.
Among the top " name " players that the Breakers had were LB Marcus Marek, HB Marcus Dupree of OU, QB Johnnie Walton, K Tim Mazzetti, QB Matt Robinson, HB Buford Jordan, P Jeff Gossett, and TE Dan Ross.
At the age of six, she was returned to the custody of Johnnie Mae, who had spent time in Mississippi.
By the early 50 ’ s, emotional delivery had reached its apex in the miniature psycho-drama songs of writer-singer Johnnie Ray.
Miller's father insisted on the name Johnnie because he had wanted a boy, but she was often called Annie.
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However Washington evened the score at 14 after two long drives that ended with a Johnnie Hudson touchdown reception and a Boynton touchdown run.
In 2009, Carlyle appeared in a long-form commercial for Johnnie Walker whisky, titled " The Man Who Walked Around The World ", that showed Carlyle walking down a path and talking for six minutes in a single long take.
Stewart eventually retired from Radio 2 in April 2006, not long after releasing his autobiography where he questioned the position of his colleagues Sarah Kennedy and Johnnie Walker on the network.
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