Ray Dexter

about

Ray Dexter's love of music started when his Mum used to call him in from the garden by shouting "It's on!". What she meant was that the Warsaw Concerto was being played on the radio. "I was inside like a shot, I was only about 5 or 6 at the time, but I simply loved that piece of music". When Ray was 8 he used to get up on stage with his Dad's band, the Hillbillies and sing "You are my Sunshine". Thirteen years later he started going up to London and bought his pride and joy guitar at the time, the Hofner President. Straight away Ray took it into the famous 2i's coffee bar and sat in the front row (Tommy Steele and Cliff Richard started there). Jet Harris (later to become The Shadows bass player) was at the 2i's as a talent scout. After singing one song backed by The Worried Men, Jet signed Ray up for Kent Walton's "Cool for Cats Roadshow". Appearances at all the big West End night clubs followed. "I remember playing Winstons with my band The Dynamoes one night and in the audience were Michael Megwin (film actor), Stubby Kaye (American musical star) and Elmer Cogan (recording artist), it felt great singing to them". After this Ray signed to Izzy Bon and did a tour of US airbases. Izzy then booked Ray and his group to do the BBC television show Caravan. It was live show and unfortunately was never recorded. Ray then auditioned for the famous Arthur Lowe agency, they made a few recordings of his songs, they were then sent to Les Conn of Melcher Music, who offered him a publishin

top songs

albums

Diamond Joe

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Rare Joe Meek Recordings Of The '60s

Revved Up

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Joe Meek - Hidden Gems Vol. 1

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Diamond Joe: The Sound Of Meeksville

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Meek's Hidden Gems

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Joe Meek - Telstar: Anthology

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Hidden Gems Vol. 1

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Joe Meek: The Missing Recordings & Rarities

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The Joe Meek Productions

The Ray Dexter Sound Show Act 1

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Joe Meek: Lone Rider - Maximum Pop!. The 1958-1962 Productions

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