RAY KENNEDY
''RAY KENNEDY''
1980
35:53
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1 It Never Crossed My Mind 03:34 (Jack Conrad, Ray Kennedy)
2 Isn't It Time 03:57 (Jack Conrad, Ray Kennedy)
3 Just For The Moment 03:22 (Jack Conrad, Ray Kennedy)
4 Cant Seem To Find The Time 04:16 (Jack Conrad, Ray Kennedy)
5 My Everlasting Love 03:59 (David Foster, Ray Kennedy)
6 You Oughta Know By Now 04:31 (David Foster, Ray Kennedy, Jack Conrad)
7 Sail On Sailor 03:23 (Brian Wilson, Ray Kennedy)
8 Starlight 04:44 (Jack Conrad, Ray Kennedy)
9 Let Me Sing You A Love Letter 04:03 (Jack Conrad, Ray Kennedy)
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Steve Lukather/Acoustic Guitar
Jerry Hey/Horns Arrangements
Bill Meyers/Strings Arrangements
Bill Champlin, Paulette Brown, Tom Kelly, Tommy Funderburk, Venette Gloud/Backing Vocals
Bob Glaub/Bass Guitar
Kim Kesterson/Bass Guitar
Mike Porcaro/Bass Guitar
Paul Laney/Castanets
Jeff Porcaro/Drums
Mike Baird/Drums
Rick Shlosser/Drums
David Foster/Keyboards
Ray Kennedy/Lead Vocals
Jai Winding/Piano
Jack Conrad/Piano, Backing Vocals
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Musician Ray Kennedy Dies at 67
By Jeff Giles February 18, 2014 8:46 AM
www.ultimateclassicrock.com
Singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist Raymond Louis Kennedy has passed away at the age of 67. During his long tenure in the music business, Kennedy wrote songs for or with the Beach Boys, Fleetwood Mac and others.
Kennedy started his career as a regular on Dick Clark’s ‘American Bandstand,’ eventually graduating to the member of the “band” who’d mime the saxophone parts of the performers’ songs. After ending his stint on the show, he hit the road as a freelance fill-in performer for a wide variety of acts, ranging from Dizzy Gillespie and Gene Krupa to Little Richard and Otis Redding.
By the mid-’60s, Kennedy was a full-time recording artist in his own right, signing a deal with Atlantic as half of the duo Jon and Ray and working on an LP that — while ultimately unreleased — found Kennedy and partner Jon Misland working with a roster that included producers Phil Spector and Arif Mardin. He closed out the decade as a member of Group Therapy, releasing a pair of albums before the group disbanded and Kennedy pursued a solo career in 1970.
It was during the ’70s that Kennedy found some of his greatest success, co-writing a number of songs covered by other artists (including the Beach Boys classic ‘Sail On, Sailor’ as well as the Babys’ ‘Isn’t It Time’ and ‘Every Time I Think of You’) and co-founding the group KGB with Barry Goldberg and Michael Bloomfield. KGB proved short-lived, lasting only long enough to produce a pair of albums, but Kennedy’s career continued unimpeded; in 1980, he released his second solo LP, ‘Ray Kennedy.’
He spent the ’80s engaged in an eclectic array of pursuits, from contributing to the music for the 1988 Olympics to opening a studio and touring with Aerosmith and the Michael Schenker Group; he also enjoyed a long professional association with Englebert Humperdinck and worked with Wayne Newton before beginning a brief songwriting partnership with Mick Fleetwood that produced ‘These Strange Times,’ the closing track on Fleetwood Mac’s 1995 ‘Time’ album.
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''RAY KENNEDY''
1980
35:53
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1 It Never Crossed My Mind 03:34 (Jack Conrad, Ray Kennedy)
2 Isn't It Time 03:57 (Jack Conrad, Ray Kennedy)
3 Just For The Moment 03:22 (Jack Conrad, Ray Kennedy)
4 Cant Seem To Find The Time 04:16 (Jack Conrad, Ray Kennedy)
5 My Everlasting Love 03:59 (David Foster, Ray Kennedy)
6 You Oughta Know By Now 04:31 (David Foster, Ray Kennedy, Jack Conrad)
7 Sail On Sailor 03:23 (Brian Wilson, Ray Kennedy)
8 Starlight 04:44 (Jack Conrad, Ray Kennedy)
9 Let Me Sing You A Love Letter 04:03 (Jack Conrad, Ray Kennedy)
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Steve Lukather/Acoustic Guitar
Jerry Hey/Horns Arrangements
Bill Meyers/Strings Arrangements
Bill Champlin, Paulette Brown, Tom Kelly, Tommy Funderburk, Venette Gloud/Backing Vocals
Bob Glaub/Bass Guitar
Kim Kesterson/Bass Guitar
Mike Porcaro/Bass Guitar
Paul Laney/Castanets
Jeff Porcaro/Drums
Mike Baird/Drums
Rick Shlosser/Drums
David Foster/Keyboards
Ray Kennedy/Lead Vocals
Jai Winding/Piano
Jack Conrad/Piano, Backing Vocals
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Musician Ray Kennedy Dies at 67
By Jeff Giles February 18, 2014 8:46 AM
www.ultimateclassicrock.com
Singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist Raymond Louis Kennedy has passed away at the age of 67. During his long tenure in the music business, Kennedy wrote songs for or with the Beach Boys, Fleetwood Mac and others.
Kennedy started his career as a regular on Dick Clark’s ‘American Bandstand,’ eventually graduating to the member of the “band” who’d mime the saxophone parts of the performers’ songs. After ending his stint on the show, he hit the road as a freelance fill-in performer for a wide variety of acts, ranging from Dizzy Gillespie and Gene Krupa to Little Richard and Otis Redding.
By the mid-’60s, Kennedy was a full-time recording artist in his own right, signing a deal with Atlantic as half of the duo Jon and Ray and working on an LP that — while ultimately unreleased — found Kennedy and partner Jon Misland working with a roster that included producers Phil Spector and Arif Mardin. He closed out the decade as a member of Group Therapy, releasing a pair of albums before the group disbanded and Kennedy pursued a solo career in 1970.
It was during the ’70s that Kennedy found some of his greatest success, co-writing a number of songs covered by other artists (including the Beach Boys classic ‘Sail On, Sailor’ as well as the Babys’ ‘Isn’t It Time’ and ‘Every Time I Think of You’) and co-founding the group KGB with Barry Goldberg and Michael Bloomfield. KGB proved short-lived, lasting only long enough to produce a pair of albums, but Kennedy’s career continued unimpeded; in 1980, he released his second solo LP, ‘Ray Kennedy.’
He spent the ’80s engaged in an eclectic array of pursuits, from contributing to the music for the 1988 Olympics to opening a studio and touring with Aerosmith and the Michael Schenker Group; he also enjoyed a long professional association with Englebert Humperdinck and worked with Wayne Newton before beginning a brief songwriting partnership with Mick Fleetwood that produced ‘These Strange Times,’ the closing track on Fleetwood Mac’s 1995 ‘Time’ album.
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