Pop Chronicles Interviews #95 - Johnnie Ray
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- Early aspirations; country influences, other influences 0:04:13
- Detroit nightclub experience; Maurice King; first record; how he accounted for his popularity on rhythm and blues charts; early hits as a product of their time; definition of "soul 0:06:55
- Definition of soul continued; labels; question about "electricity" of his early 1950s records; current music; evolution from rhythm and blues to pop; Mitch Miller 0:05:47
- Broader discussion of maintaining excitement of performance: In studio with Mitch Miller, The Four Lads; Buddy Cole; songs he did not initially like; recording techniques 0:05:59
- Pros and cons of editing in studio; question of being marginalized on charts by "teenage lightweights"; teen idols 0:08:05
- Teen idols continued; later careers of teen idols; the next generation; question about thoughts on Elvis 0:05:13
- Discussion of Elvis Presley; state of pop music in 1967 0:06:49
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Pop Chronicles Interviews #95 - Johnnie Ray, audio recording, October 18, 1967; (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1692084/: accessed May 24, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; crediting UNT Music Library.