For tens of thousands of adoring teenage girls in the mid-1950s, there was only one serious romantic idol and his name was Johnnie Ray. With his short, brushed-back blond hair, electric blue suit and ...

1951 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: "Cry," Johnnie Ray. By Billboard Staff 1999 – Curtis Mayfield, a pioneer of American soul music who penned some of the most lasting songs of the 1960s and ’70s, dies at ...

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.

The late Sam Phillips famously said that if he could find a white singer with a negro feel, he'd make a million?and then stumbled across Elvis Presley. Maybe the early recordings of Johnnie Ray didn't ...