YOU DON'T OWE ME A THING ~ Johnnie Ray 1957

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Channel: MrRJDB1969 · 2012 · Music

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YOU DON'T OWE ME A THING ~ Johnnie Ray ~ 1957 ~ Columbia Records.

Johnnie Ray was born John Alvin Ray on January 10, 1927 in Dallas Oregon.  Because of his emotional stage performances, he was often nick-named ,  "Mr. Emotion", "The Nabob of Sob",  "The Sultan of Sob" &  "The Prince of Wails". 

Johnnie Ray was married to Marilyn Morrison in 1952 and divorced in 1954. He would later have a relationship with newspaper columnist Dorothy Kilgallen, whom he met during one of his two appearances as the mystery guest on the What's My Line? television show. 

On February 24, 1990, Ray died of liver failure at Cedars-Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles, Ca.  He is buried at Hopewell Cemetery near Hopewell, Oregon.

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