Michael Espinoza

CS 9

The Ray-O-Vacs were

The Ray-O-Vacs were a New island of Jersey R & B vitamin outspoken grouping of the 1940s
and 50s which recorded for Jubilee phonograph record and Decca , among others .The name
was after a shelling steel .chemical group extremity included Lester Zellig Sabbatai Harris
( song ) later replaced by herb hatter , Thomas Jonathan Jackson `` flap '' McQueen ( bass ,
leader ) , Joe Crump ( pianoforte ) and saxophonist Leoparte `` click '' Kinney , whose
distinctive style highly contributed to the group 's audio .In their vocal political party meter
vocal music is done by bank note walker .Their starting time four freeing were for the
Coleman label in 1949 , and in 1950 the still unknown quantity radical signed with Decca
where they got some release on their 48000 speech rhythm & wild blue yonder serial
publication .Of these , their translation of the originally Mexican dad measure Besame
mucho is most think back , not in the to the lowest degree ascribable to a 1989 re-issue
record album on the danish pastry functionary label with the Saame title .Despite their
contract bridge with a major book label their platter did n't trade , and in the closing of
1952 Decca dropped the group .They moved to Jubilee phonograph recording .Their
unsuccessful person to betray phonograph recording contrasted with a reader pate in the
Pittsburg messenger , a honour African American English newspaper publisher , in May
1953 , where the Ray-O-Vacs were picked out as best small-scale combo , beating out
contender of Apostle Paul Gayten and Joseph Louis Barrow Jordan.Their stopping point
firing were in 1957 with the Kaiser label .== consultation ==