DON RAY Born a Loser NORTHERN SOUL RCA Victor Rare Promo NM

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Mar 31, 2012 Sold Date

Mar 26, 2012 Start Date

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Hi, great northern soul here by DON RAY. Includes Born a Loser b/w Livin' on a Prayer, A Hope and a Hand-me-down on RCA Records (9438).
Rare Original Promo / Demo Pressing from 1968. Produced by Rick Jarrard, who was a staff producer at RCA who worked with the Loading Zone, Harry Nilsson, Jefferson Airplane and Stone Country. He also covered High Coin by Van Dyke Parks. George Tipton added his amazing arrangments. Tipton arranged for the Monkees, Nilsson, Brian Hyland, Paul Williams, Jackie DeShannon and the Strawberry Alarm Clock. Mr. Ray also kept up with the times, in the late 70s he linked up with Cerrone & cut Garden of Love.

Condition of record: NM - Has very nice gloss, looks barely played sounds great.

Sounds excellent with light background noise on intros heard at loud volumes on my Panasonic home system. Sounds unnoticeable on my SL1200s with Ortofon dj needles. Comes with original RCA Company sleeve.

Condition of label: NM - Looks brilliant, clean. Colors & lettering are vibrant. Numbers also on label - (UPKM-9917)

Courtesy of Allmusic:

A cult hero among fans of classic Eurodisco, Don Ray (aka Raymond Donnez) enjoyed a short but memorable career as a recording artist and a longer tenure as an arranger, producer, and instrumentalist. Little is known about Raymond Donnez's background, but he is believed to have been born in the early 1950s to French parents living in Germany. Donnez's family later relocated to France, and in the mid-'70s he began working in the French pop music scene, playing keyboards and arranging material for a variety of artists. In 1977, he began working with noted French disco producer Alec R. Costandinos, contributing keyboards and arrangements to his celebrated concept album Romeo & Juliet, performing with his studio group Sphinx, and appearing on several of Costandinos's productions for Cerrone, including the breakthrough hit "Love in C Minor." Around the same time, Donnez started using the stage name Don Ray, and he produced the debut album for the disco group Santa Esmeralda, who scored an international hit with their cover of "Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood." In 1978, Don Ray briefly stepped into the spotlight and recorded an album under his own name; Garden of Love was a hit in dance clubs, and the track "Got to Have Loving" became a modest mainstream success, eventually rising to 44 on the Billboard singles chart. As disco's mass appeal faded in the early '80s, Don Ray became Raymond Donnez again and continued his career in France, arranging and orchestrating material for a number of leading Gallic acts including Johnny Hallyday, Michel Sardou, and Sylvie Vartan. Donnez also arranged some early French-language sessions for Celine Dion.

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