[78-L] name that era

[Mark Bardenwerper]

On 4/28/2014 8:18 PM, Mark Bardenwerper wrote:
> On 4/28/2014 12:33 PM, rjh334578gmail wrote:
>> I mentioned all this on my big band radio show a long time ago by
>> saying Elvis saved us from Johnny Ray and got several calls affirming
>> my position. That was 1989 or so when many of the fans of the day were
>> still with us.  I got one call asking who Johnny Ray was.
>>
>>
> Johnny Ray is imbedded like an earworm. It's been agony.
> He wasn't much of an actor either ("There's No Business Like Show
> Business").
> But he was the first pop singer to have a two-million-selling two-sided
> hit with "Cry" / "The Little White Cloud That Cried" (1951).
>
I guess I am guilty as charged.

I did not know that he was partially deaf and that his singing was 
somewhat effected by it.

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Mark L. Bardenwerper, Sr.

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