SUN RA / COSMIC RAYS / NUSOUNDS Saturn 7" 83 press RARE
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The Cosmic Rays with Sun Ra - Daddy's Gonna Tell You No Lie b/w A Foggy Day (Saturn, 7" 45)
Both sides in M- condition.
1983 issue of `50s doo wop with Sun Ra, originally released on Saturn in the `50s.
Some info from the online Sun Ra discography:
Saturn 9/1954 (1983)
A: Daddy's Gonna Tell You No Lie (Barron-Orio-Ra) (1:46)
The Cosmic Rays: Calvin Barron and three unidentified males-voc. Sounds like a rehearsal -- doesn't include all the lyrics from the S2 version. Some club, Chicago, 1955. Sun Ra does not play, though he may have been directing.
B: A Foggy Day in London Town (Gershwin-Gershwin)
The NuSounds: Roland Williams-voc; other vocalists unidentified. Sun Ra, p. A club on North Cliburn Street, Chicago, 1954 or 1955. The serial number implies 1954, but 1955 or 1956 is more likely, given Sun Ra and Gilmore's interviews with Corbett. [rlc and Gordon]
"I had two vocal groups at the same time. One was called the Cosmic Echoes... and the Cosmic Rays, too... I met the group through a friend. It was at the same time that John Gilmore joined the band. I saw the possibility that they could really be great. So I began to teach them, to coach them. They were connected with a barber shop -- but I taught them other things." [Ra, quoted by Corbett]
"All of them wound up tragically except for one. He [Calvin Barron] was the only one to last for a while, then he went through some tragic experiences in '88 or '89. But the rest of them -- they were wild, you know." [John Gilmore, quoted by Corbett]
The Roland Williams group (the NuSounds) would compete with the Barron group. They would both record the same songs and the better version would be used. (Other reports, however, deny that the NuSounds ever appeared on record.) There was also a third, instrumental group being coached by Ra at the time. [Gordon] Roland Williams' group started before the Rays. [Gilmore]
Check my other listings this week for 3 more Sun Ra 45s. If you haven't heard these recordings, they are compiled on the Sun Ra Singles 2cd set on Evidence records. Sound samples should be available somewhere online...These mid-80s Saturn 45s frequently had oversize printed labels stuck over blank(?) labels. This is one such example.
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