In the days before Elvis Presley and The Beatles shook up the music world, an Oregon native named Johnnie Ray was making a name for himself as an emotional performer who combined influences from ...
Oregon had its own “father of rock & roll.” Some have called Johnnie Ray, an Oregon farm boy turned teen idol, the musical link between Frank Sinatra and Elvis Presley. In the early 1950s, Ray’s songs ...
OPB, a member-supported public media organization serving the Northwest, today announced the premiere of a new documentary about Johnnie Ray, an Oregon-born singer, songwriter and 1950s teen idol.
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