![]() Breaking New Music/Artists thru Radio to welcoming thirsty ears was always paramount to me, especially if I could get it on Radio WITHOUT the benefit of Trade/Radio Charts, it’s called belief and guts. Ray presenting Dolly & Kenny platinum albums Over the many years of life as a Promo Man reflect if you will and perhaps identify three of your favourite memories. I was however warned away from Country & Western music being informed by an uncle one day while singing along to a Cowboy aire on the radio, that it was sung wrong (thru the nose) and a lower form of music so I kept my enthusiasm to myself until I released that a LOT a little later. Obviously not your parents music…what fresh HELL is THIS!?.it was up for grabs by kids. The Music Bug hadn’t bit me yet, until, one day at a friend’s house, I was exposed to something called Little Richard and his Good Golly Miss Molly…BAM! The energetic blast affected me like Napalm, everything it touched lit up in a good way, I was now bitten, infected, and never looked back, I was becoming, driven. ![]() Music, primarily from Radio, was always there, but in the background. What was the first style of music you were attracted to? When did music become important in your life. Our Music Media in Vcr was slowly developing when I started on April 1 1968, the April Fool Boy, Once I got booted out of the warehouse and into Promo/Sales was, for Promo/Media in particular, to eschew (Bless you! Me: you may be wasting your time with that! Sorry bout your shirt) eschew the dry as dust Press releases issued by someone dying of boredom at Head Office and replace them with my own which, recipients seems to find fun and rayfreshing, with a twist of Wry! Doors opened. Ultimately, the goal was to have your efforts translate into sales at the store level, largely (then) from Radio play and exposure thru other Media. Ray for the uninitiated please tell our readers what the job of a Promo Man was in your day? RAY RAMSAY a recent new resident on the Semiahmoo Peninsula and a long time veteran of the Westcoast music scene has put pen to paper, fingers to keyboard to recall his many years as a Promo Man on the Westcoast. SeptemI'm With The Band The ROLLING STONES honoured the hard working “promo men” (male dominated for many years) with the song “Under Assistant Westcoast Promo Man. ![]()
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