Later incarnations of the Statesmen would include tenors Sherrill ' Shaun ' Nielson, Willie Wynn, and Johnny Cook ; lead singers Roy McNeil and Jim Hill ; baritones Chris Hess ( Jake's son ), Biney English and Rick Fair ; and bass singers Ray Burdette, Bob Caldwell and Doug Young.

* Ray Burdette ( 1973 – 75 )

Brenda Mae Tarpley ( born December 11, 1944 ), known as Brenda Lee, is an American performer who sang rockabilly, pop and country music, and had 37 US chart hits during the 1960s, a number surpassed only by Elvis Presley, The Beatles, Ray Charles and Connie Francis.

Autry also sang the classic Ray Whitley hit " Back In The Saddle Again ," as well as many Christmas holiday songs, including " Santa Claus Is Coming to Town ," his own composition " Here Comes Santa Claus ," " Frosty the Snowman ," and his biggest hit, " Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer.

Ms. Ray sang with major orchestras such as those of Tommy Dorsey and Phil Harris, and acted in more than a dozen films.

He sang with Just a Few Cats, a popular local Birmingham jazz and R & B band founded by members of Ray Reach's UAB Jazz Ensemble, along with other local musicians.

In a May 2011 interview with Rachael Ray, Van Dyke noted that when he auditioned for a smaller part in the show he had no dance experience, and that after he sang his audition song he did an impromptu soft-shoe out of sheer nervousness.

( Both Ray and Phil also played trumpet and sang backing vocals for the group which, during its lifetime, briefly featured the future Elton John as pianist as well as recording a single with Dudley Moore as guest ).

Prior to joining The Supremes, Greene sang with Ray Charles ' Raelettes and Stevie Wonder's Wonderlove, which paired her with Deniece Williams and Shirley Brewer.

Ray Charles sang a rendition of " America the Beautiful " before the show at Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Uniondale, New York.

Ray Charles sang a duet with Joel on the song " Baby Grand ," and Steve Winwood played Hammond organ on the song " Getting Closer.

Ray Bolger starred, and sang the popular song " Once In Love With Amy ".

When ' What'd I Say ' came on the radio, some turned it off in disgust, but millions turned the volume up to blasting and sang ' Unnnh, unnnh, oooooh, oooooh ' along with Ray and the Raelets.

In addition to the duets, Cruz also sang solo when in 1972 he recorded Bobby Cruz canta para Tí ( Bobby Cruz sings for You ), produced by Richie Ray.

In 1999, Richie Ray and Bobby Cruz held a concert in the Rubén Rodríguez Coliseum in Bayamón, where they sang some of their early hits together with some of their religious songs.

After high school, she sang in the Broadway musical Top Banana before becoming a regular on television in The Bob and Ray Show.

Leaning on Ray Charles numbers alongside songs he sang with The Band, songs he had known for upwards of twenty years, the performance is laid-back, like a concert for friends and wellwishers.

Ray Charles ' wife sang at her funeral, which was held at Cornerstone Baptist Church in Philadelphia, PA.

Dorothée also presented a few music shows ( in 1987, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 ) in which she sang with great rock stars like Chuck Berry, Percy Sledge, Cliff Richard, Ray Charles ...

The band also then sang with singer and band leader Ray Heatherton from whom they acquired the bands ' next moniker The Heathertones.

Ray sang Killing Time with Metallica and also backing vocals on their track Seek and Destroy.

In 1962, she co-starred with Ray Bolger in All American, where they sang " Once Upon a Time ".

" ( Fred Cavinder, " More Amazing Tales from Indiana " p. 188 ) The Oyler Fan Club also developed and sang songs, such as " Hey Ray Oyler yer Bat's Too Small.

At the end of a soundcheck, he sang a version of the Doors " Roadhouse Blues ", which garnered the attention of the band and Doors member Ray Manzarek, and led to Top Jimmy performing an encore version of the song with X and Manzarek, during a May 1980 X show at the Whisky-A-Go-Go.

Miller wrote one of Ray Price's classics in 1958, " Invitation to the Blues ", and sang harmony on the recording.

That same year while doing a set of short promotional performances for her tenth studio album, Confessions on a Dance Floor, Madonna sang " Ray of light several times, including at the 2006 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in Indio, California.

The original band lineup consisted of Jello Biafra ( Eric Reed Boucher ) on vocals, East Bay Ray on guitar, Klaus Flouride ( Geoffrey Lyall ) on bass, and Ted ( Bruce Slesinger ) on drums and percussion.

* Ray Echlin – bass ( 1996 )

The four musicians who augmented Campbell-Lyons and Spyropoulos on their live appearances and TV shows for those few months were Ray Singer ( guitar ), Brian Henderson ( bass ), Sylvia A. Schuster ( cello ) and Michael Cole ( French horn, viola ).

During recording of the album session bassist Larry Knechtel was present on some of the songs, while on stage Ray Manzarek used a left-handed keyboard bass.

A side project of some of the band members was Poor Little Critter on the Road in 1985, under the name The Knitters: X minus Zoom, plus Dave Alvin ( of The Blasters ) on guitar and Johnny Ray Bartel ( of The Red Devils ) on double bass.

Her second marriage, in December 1947, was to the famous bass player Ray Brown, whom she had met while on tour with Dizzy Gillespie's band a year earlier.

It was started by Ray Scott, the " father " of competitive bass fishing.

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It showcased the band's mix of jazz, classical music, hard rock, and blues, with arrangements propelled by Duane's and Betts ' dual lead guitars, Oakley's long, melodic " third guitar " bass runs, the rhythm section's pervasively percussive yet dynamically flexible foundation, and Gregg Allman's gritty Ray Charles-like vocals and piano / organ play which all completed the band's wall of sound.

Ray Cooper, who had originally replaced Milo as vocalist, then replaced Navetta on guitar upon Milo's return, and Doug Carrion ( formerly of ANTI ) replaced Lombardo on bass.

The film opens with Buddy Holly's beginnings as a teenager in Lubbock, Texas and his emergence into the world of rock and roll with his fictional good friends and bandmates, drummer Jesse Charles ( Don Stroud ) and bass player Ray Bob Simmons ( Charles Martin Smith ), soon to be known as The Crickets.

" He played it like Ray would have, kicking it heavy on the bass foot pedals, and shouting his own encouragement: ' Tell the story, son!

The arrangements were by Marty Paich and the orchestra would be augmented by established jazz artists Dave Grusin on piano, Ray Brown on double bass, drummer Shelly Manne and saxophonists Bill Perkins and Pete Christlieb.

( 1978 ) with a quartet that included pianist Oscar Peterson, guitarist Joe Pass, bassist Ray Brown, and drummer Louis Bellson ; two Duke Ellington Songbook albums ( 1979 ); Send In The Clowns ( 1981 ) with the Count Basie orchestra playing arrangements primarily by Sammy Nestico ; and Crazy and Mixed Up ( 1982 ), another quartet album featuring Sir Roland Hanna, piano, Joe Pass, guitar, Andy Simpkins, bass, and Harold Jones, drums.

* Ray Manzarek – Vox Continental organ, Fender Rhodes piano bass on tracks 4 and 10, harpsichord on track 3, backwards piano on track 4, marimba on track 9, backing vocals

It features longtime collaborator Matt Guillory on keyboards, Marco Sfogli (" Elements of Persuasion ") on guitars, Peter Wildoer from DARKANE on drums / screaming vocals, and Ray Riendeau on bass.

The grave of Coleman HawkinsIn the 1950s, Hawkins performed with more traditional musicians such as Henry " Red " Allen and Roy Eldridge with whom he appeared at the 1957 Newport Jazz Festival and recorded Coleman Hawkins Encounters Ben Webster with fellow tenor saxophonist Ben Webster along with Oscar Peterson ( piano ), Herb Ellis ( guitar ), Ray Brown ( bass ), and Alvin Stoller ( drums ).

On May 15, 1915, Tom Brown's Band from Dixieland opened up at Lamb's Cafe at Clark & Randolph Streets in Chicago, with Ray Lopez, cornet and manager ; Tom Brown, trombone and leader ; Gussie Mueller clarinet, Arnold Loyacano piano and string bass ; and Billy Lambert on drums.

He worked with a number of local bands, including Martha and the Muffins ( for whom his sister Jocelyne played bass ), Ray Materick, as well as the Canadian children's singer Raffi.

" Eight Beat Mack " refers to drummer Ray McKinley, and " Doc " refers to the band's bass player, Doc Goldberg.

Roberts left in late 1983 to form Carcrash International, and the lineup settled to Andi, McLeay, Cam Campbell ( bass ) and Kevin Matthews ( drums ), a change forced by Ray Mondo's deportation to his native Sierra Leone.

Raymond " Ray " Davis ( March 29, 1940 – July 5, 2005 ) was the original bass singer and one of the founding members of The Parliaments, Parliament, and Funkadelic.

On stage, keyboardist Daryl Hooper would handle the bass parts via a separate bass keyboard, in the same way as Ray Manzarek did with the Doors.