I started crying when HE sang "CRY" in this video Yes indeed JOHNNIE RAY was a man with tremendous feelings I will say that positively HE influenced ELVIS PRESLEY - With HIS squelching rough at times voice and HIS hair flopping - gyrating movements - hand and arm motions - leg spreads - and the thank you bow after HIS songs - This performance is a mild one compared to HIS ones of back then in the 1950s - Look at the stage show back in the 1950s - Just go and watch the film footage from some of those days - wow - I sat with HIM at a table in 1979 at the Whiskey A Go Go night club in Hollywood , California - and we talked about HIS great career ! What a night I can never forget Joe Nania a.k.a. "Hollywood" Joe
My father loved his music. In the 1970s he took me to a concert of his. I’d heard his music a few times randomly, like on Happy Days, but watching him live made me really appreciate him. After that I listened to my dads 45s a lot. Eventually got a CD of his greatest hits. I’m so glad I got to see him perform in person. My dad really enjoyed the concert, but was saddened by the fact he drew only a few hundred people. I love this performance because he still sounded great and had a large adoring audience.
God Bless Johnnie, He really knew how we all felt. He sings as though he is living the Song. Today's Singer's don't come close to making us feel the Emotion he made us feel. I am 52 and just recently decided to learn more about him, thank God for RUclips. I never had the experience of seeing Johnnie in person, to those that did, You were Blessed! Sincerely, Ralph Raucci
My uncle was an entertainer, night club host . He said Johnny Ray was the best stage performer he ever seen ,TV appearance do not show his real stage act so many singers copied him
Me also! I’m 68 never knew of him but the song cry was in my head! I search it and found him must have been subliminal from me as an infant through my parents! He’s amazing but so sad what happened to him.
I was a little schoolboy in short trousers when I first heard Johnnie Ray. Instantly 'hooked', I was mad on Johnnie - on my was home fron school, I often stopped at a milk-bar and played his records on their juke box. Saw him twice, live in Sydney - I'm still word-perfect with every one of his major hits! Vale, Johnnie.
When I miss him ... I so appreciate this song Jonny 🎵 saw you with my ma in concert 1st row hooted & hollering in Vegas... You are the best in the business. ❤️
wow johnnie just knocks this song out of the park i love how the crowd brings him back. everyone should have a moment like this. i just might cry myself.
If this is the show I saw in 77 that dick Clark hosted and I think it is I remember being really impressed never seeing an ovation for a singer like that and how good he was where I'd bever seen him before and knew nothing about him. And why I'd never heard of him.
Su gran merito es que era sordo ,pero sentia la musica desde su alma y la interpretaba como nadie....quienes crecimos con su musica....siempre estara en nuestros corazones...
Loved him since i was 2 yrs old, when mom first played his records wow i've loved him ever since 🙆♀️🥰😘😃💙💐💟🙋♀️💛💚💖💜⚘🌺❤🌼💌💞😢😪 i'll never forget you Johnnie ❤
i remember my mum playing all johnnies songs on piano i was 7 and very poorly but i loved these songs as ive got older how much johnnie is a perfectionist great songs xx
He should have done Rock & Roll and rockabilly songs like Elvis Presley, Carl Perkins, The Quarry Men, Johnny Cash, Merle Haggard Willie Nelson. The Beatles. The rolling Stones The who, The kinks Hollywood boulevard, Led Zeppelin, stairway to heaven.
@@Garry-vd1dg I think he was right to stick to what he did best - check out They Can't Take That Away From Me with photos of Marilyn Monroe - magic. Many singers updated their style to match the trends, at their cost... But that's just my view.
@@jenniferkay4038 But if Johnny Ray did more rock and roll and country songs he would have been more popular.. when The rolling Stones and The Beatles starting doing country music they got more popular and the country and western people started buying there records and they like them too .
@@Garry-vd1dg Ah, yes but the American market is very different from ours in England - you gave good examples with Stones and Beatles, neither being particularly remembered here for country music. We had a surfeit of rockers, but a good crooner became a precious commodity and I can't see Johnnie Ray succeeding in rock'n roll. But we'll never know Garry, because it didn't happen. Thanks for your comments, all good wishes to you.
@@jenniferkay4038 He married to Marilyn Morrison 2 years. My mom likes him she likes Toch God's hand. She saw in NY City in the 50's. He is not my kind of music. I brought up on Rock Roll and rockabilly and country and blues music like Johnny Cash Carl Perkins, Hank Williams,my Dad turned me on to that kind music.
I was 10 years old when I first heard this song….love it, so wonderful and the lyrics are so true. Johnnie Ray was fantastic and everyone loved this song.
Johnnie i understand was partly deaf which explains the way he sang but there is mistaking that johnnie is one of the best there is and despite his fama was humble. And the audience in this concert is also one of the best and the most appreciative and knows how to honor great talents kudos guys.
wow thanks for posting this. one of my all time favs incredible....just an incredible piece. thank you. johnnie ray this song so true. thanks again for posting this. standing ovi.
Hey Mcalanb, I have no idea as to where or when this performance was made, but I thank you very much for allowing me to enjoy seeing and hearing it. At least one person suggested Ray was all dried up. Well, he was obviously pretty old at the time of this performance, and he certainly did not have quite as much punch as he did fifty years earlier, but all you have to do is listen to the appreciation of the audience. They certainly were not applauding for an old dried up singer. Just consider they had him repeat his signature song; that is most unusual and a credit to Ray. Sometime in the mid to late 1970s, I lived and worked in Northern Virginia. While in Washington, DC one evening, I went to a pub where Johnnie Ray was playing a piano while singing his large repertoire of beautiful ballads. Other than his piano, he had no other musical accompaniment - just Ray, his piano, and his voice. I sat through two sets that evening, and all the patrons were very quiet while he was performing. I remember him from the early 1950s on television and film, and he certainly was very exciting back then. I am certain he was probably more exciting in person, but I never was able to see him until that night in DC. The Johnnie Ray I saw that night was older and rather subdued while playing at the piano, but it was a great evening for me. Even though he was doing a one-man show in a DC pub, he was all class. Best wishes, Dave Wile
Hey Cinerama62, Thanks for your information. I think he looked pretty good in this 1987 performance considering he died in February of 1990. Between this 1987 performance and his death in 1990, his health and his looks deteriorated quite a bit. There are a few videos after this performance where he really looked bad. While he obviously looked a bit old for his 60 years at this time, he still was able to perform with a great deal of vigor. I enjoyed Ray from when he first hit the bigs in 1951 until his last televised performances which I think was in 1989. He was a class act. Best wishes, Dave Wile
Johnie Ray was unique among crooners, its not having a good voice but how to sing a song that made him so great. He became deaf in his right ear due to an accident aged nine yet went on stage with a primitive hearing aid receiving a commendation from the deaf society of america for showing how a disabled person can still achieve much in life. Pete 'Kiwi'Keegan
Johnnie Ray is in Billy Idol's music video "Don't Need a Gun," as a cab driver in Hollywood. Billy pays homage to him near the end where he sings "Johnnie Ray is always crying." Awesome video.
Amazing performance, Johnnie never had the greatest voice but what he did with it and his emotional delivery made him stand out. This shows he could still do it in his later years too.
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I started crying when HE sang "CRY" in this video Yes indeed JOHNNIE RAY was a man with tremendous feelings I will say that positively HE influenced ELVIS PRESLEY - With HIS squelching rough at times voice and HIS hair flopping - gyrating movements - hand and arm motions - leg spreads - and the thank you bow after HIS songs - This performance is a mild one compared to HIS ones of back then in the 1950s - Look at the stage show back in the 1950s - Just go and watch the film footage from some of those days - wow - I sat with HIM at a table in 1979 at the Whiskey A Go Go night club in Hollywood , California - and we talked about HIS great career ! What a night I can never forget Joe Nania a.k.a. "Hollywood" Joe
I have his photo as my screen saver , that's how much I LOVE HIM STILL
Yes Thank you U tube!! ❤all thes WONDERFUL MEMORIES!! YOU BRING US!! THESE ARE BEAUTIFUL SONGS YOU CAN UNDERSTAND EVERY WORD!!!❤❤❤❤❤
My idol in my younger days - I idolised him and bought every recored. He was my world, I still listen to him in my 80's. Bless him xx
How many of Johnny Ray records did you buy?
My father loved his music. In the 1970s he took me to a concert of his. I’d heard his music a few times randomly, like on Happy Days, but watching him live made me really appreciate him. After that I listened to my dads 45s a lot. Eventually got a CD of his greatest hits. I’m so glad I got to see him perform in person. My dad really enjoyed the concert, but was saddened by the fact he drew only a few hundred people. I love this performance because he still sounded great and had a large adoring audience.
MINE TOO
he never lost that awesome voice......fabulous man. very sweet and generous.
I STILL LOVE YOU JOHNNIE
What a great reaction from the crowd.
I have every CD, LP AND DVD he ever made
God Bless Johnnie, He really knew how we all felt. He sings as though he is living the Song. Today's Singer's don't come close to making us feel the Emotion he made us feel. I am 52 and just recently decided to learn more about him, thank God for RUclips.
I never had the experience of seeing Johnnie in person, to those that did, You were Blessed!
Sincerely,
Ralph Raucci
My uncle was an entertainer, night club host . He said Johnny Ray was the best stage performer he ever seen ,TV appearance do not show his real stage act so many singers copied him
@@hyeden88 Thank You Denis.
I Haven't Looked At The Video For A While, Otherwise I Would Have Responded Sooner.
Thank You For Sharing
Me also! I’m 68 never knew of him but the song cry was in my head! I search it and found him must have been subliminal from me as an infant through my parents! He’s amazing but so sad what happened to him.
@@hyeden88 JOHNNIE
I was a little schoolboy in short trousers when I first heard Johnnie Ray.
Instantly 'hooked', I was mad on Johnnie - on my was home fron school, I often stopped at a milk-bar and played his records on their juke box.
Saw him twice, live in Sydney - I'm still word-perfect with every one of his major hits!
Vale, Johnnie.
One of the best singers to bring real emotion to the surface God can we get another one or did they break the mold???
This has to be one of my favorite videos of Johnnie Ray performing. The crowd was amazing and he deserved every bit of their applause and enthusiasm.
Agreed
Yes 💯
What year is this? How old is he here?
@@Garry-vd1dgI thought this aired in the first part of 77 if my memory is good enough. One of the major networks.
I wish I could verify that myself. I've been looking all over. It's driving me nuts.
Escuche la canción en un programa de t.v .y me fascinó .Es realmente bella y el sentimiento con la que la canta es fabuloso
When I miss him ... I so appreciate this song Jonny 🎵 saw you with my ma in concert 1st row hooted & hollering in Vegas...
You are the best in the business. ❤️
JOHNNIE
Was listening with my mom. Wow he’s amazing! My mom saw him in London as a teenager. 👍👍😘💛💛
miss these days, good music, good people
Saw Johnny in 73. Still good then.
I LOVE YOU STILL JOHNNIE
wow johnnie just knocks this song out of the park i love how the crowd brings him back. everyone should have a moment like this. i just might cry myself.
Johnnie was the best.He was bisexual and survived a scandal. He also was the best man at Judy garlands last wedding. Long live the cry guy!!!
How many records did Johnny Ray make how many albums and how many singles?
@@Garry-vd1dg JOHNNIE
the most brilliant singer man in the 60......
He breaks my heart. Every time.
I was with my beloved mother when last in Vegas saw him & I cried.
Hello Sheila,
Thank You so much for Sharing this PRICElESS Memory!
@@sheilascanlon4928
Now that,s talent still delivers excellent and yeah if your heart don't ache after this song you don't have one.
Exactly!
Well said, I echo that. Cry on!
They do not make em like this anymore. What a great crowd ovation. Todays so called singers need to use this as training
Miss you Johnnie Ray.
If this is the show I saw in 77 that dick Clark hosted and I think it is I remember being really impressed never seeing an ovation for a singer like that and how good he was where I'd bever seen him before and knew nothing about him. And why I'd never heard of him.
Su gran merito es que era sordo ,pero sentia la musica desde su alma y la interpretaba como nadie....quienes crecimos con su musica....siempre estara en nuestros corazones...
35 years since we lost him , can't believe it.
Johnnie Ray was FANTASTIC
A classic
One of a kind
Pure gold
God bless
The man
Pure magic. When Ringo was asked what music the Beatles listened to he replied Chuck Berry,
Little Richard, and Johnnie Ray.
Always been a huge fan and this performance shows why. Superb, just superb.
One of, if not, the very best showman in the business - what a voice !!
Johnny was the top of the class.
Loved him since i was 2 yrs old, when mom first played his records wow i've loved him ever since 🙆♀️🥰😘😃💙💐💟🙋♀️💛💚💖💜⚘🌺❤🌼💌💞😢😪 i'll never forget you Johnnie ❤
i remember my mum playing all johnnies songs on piano i was 7 and very poorly but i loved these songs as ive got older how much johnnie is a perfectionist great songs xx
He really broke me down...Crying, crying, crying! One of the best singers of all time.
Great performer great voice great SONGS
I loved him at 11 and cryed when he would cry.♥️🫂
Fabulour performance, what a STAR he still was. Thank you
He should have done Rock & Roll and rockabilly songs like Elvis Presley, Carl Perkins, The Quarry Men, Johnny Cash, Merle Haggard Willie Nelson. The Beatles. The rolling Stones The who, The kinks Hollywood boulevard, Led Zeppelin, stairway to heaven.
@@Garry-vd1dg I think he was right to stick to what he did best - check out They Can't Take That Away From Me with photos of Marilyn Monroe - magic. Many singers updated their style to match the trends, at their cost... But that's just my view.
@@jenniferkay4038 But if Johnny Ray did more rock and roll and country songs he would have been more popular.. when The rolling Stones and The Beatles starting doing country music they got more popular and the country and western people started buying there records and they like them too .
@@Garry-vd1dg Ah, yes but the American market is very different from ours in England - you gave good examples with Stones and Beatles, neither being particularly remembered here for country music. We had a surfeit of rockers, but a good crooner became a precious commodity and I can't see Johnnie Ray succeeding in rock'n roll. But we'll never know Garry, because it didn't happen. Thanks for your comments, all good wishes to you.
@@jenniferkay4038 He married to Marilyn Morrison 2 years. My mom likes him she likes Toch God's hand. She saw in NY City in the 50's. He is not my kind of music. I brought up on Rock Roll and rockabilly and country and blues music like Johnny Cash Carl Perkins, Hank Williams,my Dad turned me on to that kind music.
I love this song...makes me remember such a great time in life.
His singing brings tears to my eyes! He belted it out for REAL! When and where was this concert? His voice makes you feel alive!!
HOLLAND A FEW YEARS BEFORE HE DIED
@@heatherkelly2580he had another concert in Holland, but in 1958.
That voice! Johnny Ray is one of the best.
JOHNNIE
JOHNNIE
My Dad sang this song all the time ❤❤❤
I was 10 years old when I first heard this song….love it, so wonderful and the lyrics are so true. Johnnie Ray was fantastic and everyone loved this song.
Thanks for this. Can you imagine what he was like in concert in the 1950s ?
I loved him.... Never will forget..moving to Calif. And seeing him on TV.
HOW I MISS JOHNNIE
what a great man/singer. no one before, no one after can match the man's talent/singing stage performance. RIP
Everybody enjoyed Johnnie singing. Performers love the adoration. That is good.
THIS VIDEO IS ABSOLUTELY FABULOUS . I WISH I COULD HAVE BEEN THERE!!!
Me too
Love this performance. Absolutely epic.
❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤Bravo ! My husband and I really like all of the songs that Johnny Ray sings. ❤❤❤❤❤
My idol JOHNNIE RAY
Mesmo com a idade ja mais avançada Ele continuava cantando lindamente. Foi uma estrela musical.
Johnnie i understand was partly deaf which explains the way he sang but there is mistaking that johnnie is one of the best there is and despite his fama was humble. And the audience in this concert is also one of the best and the most appreciative and knows how to honor great talents kudos guys.
He was about 80 percent deaf after a botched surgery to repair his hearing
nobody can realise how difficult it is to perform when you cannot hear !!! what an absolute performer of his time@@marlasheridan6705
Met jòhnie back stage back in 70 s saw him many times back in 50S great singer
MY SINGING IDIOL SINCE 1977
I remember seeing him on a show which dick Clark hosted in either 76 or 77 wonder if this was it.
Love him. My favorite song
Much older but from 2:10 you can feel the classic Johnnie energy. Superb performance and thanks for the video.
Lembra-me meu doze anos..,. 1952 …, hoje emociona-me está canção 😮 5:02
I Salute you Sir for a very very great song!
So many singers copied his stage act A great showman
Awesome traduçao
Significado de awesome
Stellar performance every time
What a fantastic!! Wonderful!! Amazing! Beautiful!! Person!!
wow thanks for posting this. one of my all time favs incredible....just an incredible piece. thank you. johnnie ray this song so true. thanks again for posting this. standing ovi.
THE LATE GREAT CRY GUY JOHNNIE RAY IN Holland 1984 singing of course "CRY" the song that gave him the name THE CRY GUY.
What an ARTIST !!...🤗
Truly an amazing performance by Johnnie Ray.
Loved this wonderful man in the 50s still love him now
Hey Mcalanb,
I have no idea as to where or when this performance was made, but I thank you very much for allowing me to enjoy seeing and hearing it. At least one person suggested Ray was all dried up. Well, he was obviously pretty old at the time of this performance, and he certainly did not have quite as much punch as he did fifty years earlier, but all you have to do is listen to the appreciation of the audience. They certainly were not applauding for an old dried up singer. Just consider they had him repeat his signature song; that is most unusual and a credit to Ray.
Sometime in the mid to late 1970s, I lived and worked in Northern Virginia. While in Washington, DC one evening, I went to a pub where Johnnie Ray was playing a piano while singing his large repertoire of beautiful ballads. Other than his piano, he had no other musical accompaniment - just Ray, his piano, and his voice. I sat through two sets that evening, and all the patrons were very quiet while he was performing. I remember him from the early 1950s on television and film, and he certainly was very exciting back then. I am certain he was probably more exciting in person, but I never was able to see him until that night in DC. The Johnnie Ray I saw that night was older and rather subdued while playing at the piano, but it was a great evening for me. Even though he was doing a one-man show in a DC pub, he was all class.
Best wishes,
Dave Wile
I belive it's from the Royal Variety Performance. 1987
Hey Cinerama62,
Thanks for your information. I think he looked pretty good in this 1987 performance considering he died in February of 1990. Between this 1987 performance and his death in 1990, his health and his looks deteriorated quite a bit. There are a few videos after this performance where he really looked bad. While he obviously looked a bit old for his 60 years at this time, he still was able to perform with a great deal of vigor. I enjoyed Ray from when he first hit the bigs in 1951 until his last televised performances which I think was in 1989. He was a class act.
Best wishes,
Dave Wile
1982 IN ROTTERDAM AHOY CENTRE METROPOOL ORCH. DIR ROGIER VAN OTTERLOO
I would have loved to have been at that concert!
A wonderful performance...
Dios te bendiga Jhony!
One of my favourite singers in my young days
Never mind the year this was his greatest performance I have ever seen
wanderul I grew up as a liverpool teenager awakening to emotional development. Met him backstage at the London with my wife.
Wat een heerlijke muziek wat mis ik dat in mijn leven 👍😎🌞🌺🌺🌺🌺
Johnie Ray was unique among crooners, its not having a good voice but how to sing a song that made him so great. He became deaf in his right ear due to an accident aged nine yet went on stage with a primitive hearing aid receiving a commendation from the deaf society of america for showing how a disabled person can still achieve much in life. Pete 'Kiwi'Keegan
JOHNNIE
Amazing, his voice is just the same
This was in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Probably late '70's.
What a legend!!!!
Wow .its amazing .truly i love this song..
It's ok John we've not forgotten about you 💙
He never lost it
The Nabob of Sod, the CRY GUY HIMSELF JOHNNIE RAY, sings "CRY" IN HOLLAND IN THE 1980S.
just absolutely fabulous x
performed at ahoy in rotterdam 1982 it was on television
Johnnie Ray is in Billy Idol's music video "Don't Need a Gun," as a cab driver in Hollywood. Billy pays homage to him near the end where he sings "Johnnie Ray is always crying." Awesome video.
My Favorite Version .the Original by Johnny Ray 😊
Beautiful
Brill
Beautiful🥰
THE ONE AND ONLY JOHNNIE RAY singing "CRY" the song that gave him the title "THE CRY GUY"
Love this so much also listen to Englebert Humperding Why cant I stop Loving You Itll mely your HEART Love THIS
Que de souvenirs ma jeunesse les copines les copins merveilleux merci
Amazing performance, Johnnie never had the greatest voice but what he did with it and his emotional delivery made him stand out. This shows he could still do it in his later years too.
FABULOUS!!
Simply Incredible
This was in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Probably around 1977.
Very memorable and loved song and singer.
*Wonderful Johnnie Ray!! Cry!!☆😊💦 ♡ 🌹 ♪♫ • 🇨🇷*
iconic johnnie ray.
He was GREAT.
Considering that he is nearly totally deaf, he does a good job.
Legend… !!
great clip....thx!