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Ray King was a session player for Piccadilly Records, London in the Sixties,played and recorded with almost all of Britain´s top Artists, including Chris Farlow, The Jackie Lynton Band,Bob Xavier and the Jury,The Cruisers, Lord Sutch, Carlo Little,Nicky Hopkins,(founder members of the Rolling Stones),Mike Brunning (Keith Kelly,Lynton,the 2 "I"s coffee bar house band) The Sonics, David Martin, Chris Arnold, Geoff Morrow(composers of " I can´t smile without you",for Barry Manilow),Big Jim Sullivan,Glynn Johns,Phil Seaman,the Les Reed Orchestra,Ronnie Scott, Ronnie Ross,Lennie Bush,(Kate´s dad), Dusty Springfield, Barrie St.John,Engelbert,Albert Lee,Casey Jones,Joe Meek,Little Roy Mills, Boots Slade(both Alan Price Set and Georgie Fame),John Fiddy (Shadows,Olivia Newton-John) and many more.In Germany, with The Sonics, The Petards,Pete Wyoming Bender,Joey H. Graul,(Achim von RTL),fine country band Canyon, Barbara Sukowa,Judy Winter,Reiner Schöne,Raut Degrie, Rita Siegmann, Susanne Vogt,Ricky,one of Germany´s finest jazz singers,Staatstheater Orchestra and Symphony Orchestra Kassel,Conductor Gerd Albrecht,the Henner Urff Quintett, Manfred Schoof, Rolf and Joachim Kuhn,Niki de St. Phalle,Rainer von Diez,Christo,the artist who packs everything,and many others.Performed in several Musicals, including "Showboat", on stage and in the orchestra.I have played a Gibson ES335 Custom guitar since 1962, (the first red one in Europe ,I believe,which helped the promotion of this great guitar-everybody only wanted Fender Strats at that time!) It was sold to me by John McLaughlin, bless you, John,)for jazz, an Epiphone Emperor, and I still use a Gibson 79RV Stereo Amp from about 1960. Also composed a Ballet, " Howl" for the theatre, and a few other
pieces for plays-"Lysistrata", and a free jazz piece for "Titus Andronicus". My friends and colleagues included Barney Kessel, Herb Ellis, Charlie Byrd, Joe Pass, Jimmy Raney and Atilla Zoller. Don´t give up the day-job, ladies and gentlemen!
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